lifted vp his eyes On his Disciples saying this Ye poore are blessed euen thrise For yours Gods kingdome surely is Ye that now hunger blessed are You shall be sure of better fare And ye that weepe yet blessed are For ye shall likewise laugh againe When men hate you take ye no care And when they do procure your paine Nor yet when they you separate Reuiling at your base estate If for the sonne of mans sake they Your names put out as euill men Reioyce ye greatly God obay And be in heart glad of it then Behold in heau'n reward haue ye The Prophets were as now ye be But woe to them that rich are here And do repose thereon their trust The day will come it shall appeare They dearly bought vile earth and dust In heau'n true treasure may be found Each thing corrupts that growes in ground Woe be to you that now are full For yee shall hunger after this If you were not exceeding dull For meate ye would not morgage blisse Woe be to you that now laugh so For you shall waile and weepe for wo. Woe be to you whom men do praise And speake well of deseruing ill When yee haue spent out all your dayes You shall bewray what was your will False Prophets were by like deuise Among your elders had in price But vnto you which heare I say Your enemies see that yee loue To them that hate you if ye may Shew how my doctrine doth you moue To do them good and blesse withall And pray for them that wish your fall To him that smiteth thee also Vpon one cheeke the other giue Who so thy cloake would take thee fro Giue him thy coate and do not grieue To purchase so a quiet life And stirre thou no debate or strife Giue eu'ry man that asketh thee And he that takes thy goods away By force or fraude how so it be Aske thou them not againe I say But vnto other men so do As thou wouldst be of them done to If that ye loue do good or lend To them that do requite the same Each sinner so doth for his friend You should do more then such for shame Be mercifull to such as need For so your father is indeed Christ healed the Centurions seruant being absent the Centurions faith After that Christ had finished His Sermon as you heard before From thence he likewise hastened For he desired more and more The worke he had in hand to end Which for our good did wholly tend As Capernaum he came to A Captaine there a Gentile borne Made for his seruant much adoe That seemed then a man forlorne He su'd by meanes his health to haue Christ with a word his life did saue The Captaines great humility And faith our Sauiour did commend In Israëll then certainly Like praise to none he did extend Of these said Christ shall many come To heau'n and haue the childrens roome Christ raised from death the widowes sonne at Naijm The next day after Christ did raise The widows sonne to life againe And all the people gaue God praise That present then did there remaine All they did spread abroad his fame That either saw or heard the same Iohn Baptists message to Christ by two of his disciples Iohn Baptist was in prison cast Herodias had obtaind the same And his disciples came in hast And told him there of Iesus fame Yet he in prison as before Would winne to Christ disciples more For when his workes to him were told That his disciples might beleeue In Iesus Christ Iohn said behold A message vnto you I giue Iohn knew him well assuredly As he oft times did testifie But that his might also perceiue That Christ the true Messiah was Of whom they should all grace receiue In whom they might all truth embrace Go ye and say Iohn sent to thee To aske if thou be euen he They went and both to Iesus came And said to him our maister sent To know if thou be sure the same Or else another that is meant Men knew as then that Christ should come How when or where that knew but some Christs answer sent backe to Iohn by his disciples Go back said Christ to Iohn againe Shew him what yee do heare and see The blinde and halt are rid of paine The leapers and the deafe go free The dead are raised vp this day The poore the gospell beare away And therewithall to them he gaue A gentle admonition His humblenesse that they might haue In reu'rent estimation Blessed said Christ shall that man be That taketh no offence by me Christs testimonie of Iohn Baptist When they were gone then Christ began To speake vnto the company What went yee out to see a man Infected with inconstancie Iohn you in wildernesse did finde Not as a reede shakt with the winde What went ye then out for to see A man cloathed in soft raiment Such men in kings courts vse to be Iohn is with meaner weed content Iohns raiment showes him to be plaine He flattred not he could not faine But what went yee out then to see A prophet I say to you more Of whom is written this is he My messenger shall go before This is Elias whom they say Should come for to prepare the way No greater among men did rise Then Iohn the Baptist verely Not any that you can deuice Yet this I say assuredly The least in heau'n goes him before And doth enioy Gods graces more Gods kingdome suffreth violence Since Iohns time to this very day The Gentiles with all diligence Without the law new cald obay The lawe and Prophets haue their end For he is come whom yee attend He that hath eares to heare may heare Marke what I say therefore amend Sith that Elyas did appeare The law and Prophets made an end Yet you remaine both deafe and blind That may your true Messiah find Christ reprooueth his auditorie This generation it is Like children that their fellowes call And say we piped haue iwis And yet yee daunced not at all So you deferre from day to day For to repent for all we say Hard was the life that Iohn did lead For meate and drinke he tooke no care He had a deuill men supposed The sonne of man they do compare With gluttons and with drunkards when He eateth meat as other men Christ vpbraideth the vnthankefull citties wherein he had taught and done so many miracles and yet they repented not Then Christ began for to vpbraid The citties that so oft had seene His workes and yet for all delaid For to repent as they had beene Cleane void of sinne or had no will To learne the good and leaue the ill Chorazin wo be vnto thee And to Bethsayda woe likewise The great works that were done by me In you yee greatly did despise If they in Tyrus had bene done It had repented long agone If Tyre and Sidon had I say
againe For sundry causes good From Egipt where they did remaine Iosephus past the flood And came to lurie for to dwell Thus tossed cruellie Was Christ the king of Israell From his weake infancie Thus did our good and louing God Send downe his onely sonne To saue vs sinners from his rod That else had bene vndonne There was no merites left for man His sillie soule to saue But onely this Christ onely can Reuiue vs in the graue This Christ at the appointed time Tooke flesh of Adams seede Whose substance was but earthie slime This flesh he tooke in deede And in this flesh that did offend This second Adam hee Did all our former faults amend And fully made vs free As many as vnfainedly Beleeue and say the same They finde saluation certainly In Iesus Christ his name Therefore be glad in God reioyce He is our strength and stay Be ioyfull and lift vp your voyce To Iacobs God alway Amen THE SECOND PART OF THE HISTORIE OF OVR LORD AND SAVIOVR IESVS CHRIST containing those things which he did the first yeare after his Baptisme which was the xxx of his age according to the foure Euangelistes To the tune of the Lordes Prayer Christ Baptized the time when and where he was Baptized CHrist thirtie yeares of age at lest Began to preach the Gospell then Our sauiour Christ was ready prest To bring glad tydings vnto men But ere he would this enterprise In Iordan Iohn did him Baptise Tiberius Caesar as we read Then raigned full the fifteenth yeare Iudea Pylate rulde as head In Galilie it doth appeare That Herod raigned in the place And in Iturea Phillip was Lysanias ruled Abylen Annas and Cayphas high Priests were Th'Euangelistes agree that then Iohn preached and Baptized there Among the rest he did Baptise Our Sauiour Christ but on this wise Christ Iesus came from Galilie To Iordan where Iohn did Baptise Iohn Christ fore-running certainly His office did well exercise With diligence whose time then came To yeeld to Christ and leaue the same With water I Baptise said he Mens liues t'amend I teach the way But he that commeth after me To Baptise his will not delay With fire and with the holy Ghost To whom I yeeld his might is most Therefore when Christ Baptisde would be Iohn put him backe and said I need To haue thy helpe com'st thou to me Christ said againe we must in deed Both thus all righteousnesse fulfill Then Iohn obeyd Christ Iesus will Christ needed not at all to haue This badge of penitence but he That meant his chosen for to saue Most humble showes himselfe to be Christ Baptisme did receiue therefore That he might honour it the more When Christ out of the water went Straightway the heau'ns were opened Iohn saw the same incontinent Assoone as it then happened The holy Ghost Iohn like a doue Did see descending from aboue He heard withall from heau'n this voyce This is my welbeloued sonne In whom I onely do reioyce By him my will is truly donne The Father Sonne and Spitite he Then heard and saw at once all three The voyce and sight Iohn heard and sawe Assured him that this was he Of whom all men should stand in awe By whom all men must saued be He that sent Iohn for to Baptise Said thou shalt see him in such wise Iohn then discharging well his place Was glad in heart to leaue the same And yeeld to Christ so full of grace Of whom he published the fame I came before said Iohn to tell And spread his name in Israell Christ by the spirite was lead into the wildernesse where he fasted forty dayes and 40. nights After all this the spirite lead Christ Iesus to the wildernesse Where he troad downe the Serpents head To bring vs out of heauinesse There first he did both pray and fast While fortie dayes and nights did last Among wild beasts he liued then This was his comfort all those dayes So farre from companie of men In prayer to talke with God alwayes Christ thus with reu'rent care did take In hand his office for our sake But after that those dayes were donne To show him perfect man to be An hungred was Gods onely sonne Though farre from foode as then was he The tempter thought this place most fit And time to ply his wilie wit Christ was tempted of the deuill three wayes and thrise himselfe ouercome by Christ He like himselfe is alwayes found Most false and faine would Christ deceiue This first demaund he did propound As doubting though he did perceiue That Christ the sonne of God should bee And tryes it with deuises threee First to dispaire he Christ would bring As then to doubt of helpe at need His wants he knew and vrg'd that thing If thou be Christ Gods sonne in deed Command these stones made bread to bee For other foode I can not see Christ answereth man doth not liue By bread alone as thou doest deeme Gods word is bread which I beleeue Doth feede all his this I esteeme By it mans life preserued is I will not tempt my God in this Then next the deuill deuised so From doubt to confidence as vaine Christ to prouoke they both thence go The temple to from top againe Sathan willd Christ to take a fall Angels will aide thee if thou call For this is written sure said he That God hath charg'de them so to do If thou doest fall then shall I see And shew it vnto many moe Thus did the deu'll Gods word abuse Which God hath willd vs well to vse Christ said againe this written is Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Who so doth so deserueth this For such a fault to feele his rod. I will not so deceiued be Depart therefore thou deu'll from me Lastly by wealth and worldly gaine The subtil'st shift of all the rest Man to deceiue whose minde is vaine This wile as then the deuill addrest To tempt our Sauiour Christ withall Not doubting him therewith to fall He brought him to a mountaine high These worldly kingdomes to behold The deuill was in his maiestie This act of his was verie bold All these said he will I giue thee If thou fall downe and worship me But Iesus could no more abide To heare him vaunt so much amisse Christ did conuince him then of pride To offer him that was not his Voyde Sathan get thee hence away Worship the Lord thy God obay You see therefore Christ Iesus was So by the spirite led away He fasted in a desert place He practis'd prayer day by day And Sathans sleights did ouerthrow All this the Scripture doth vs show And in that he was tempted so And suffered S. Paule doth say He is well able to helpe mo That tempted are by any way We need not therefore stand in feare When we
be If Sergeant thee in prison set Thence till thou pay thou shalt not get Of Adultery It was of old time also said Commit not thou adultery But I say looke you be affrayd To gaze on women lustfully Who so doth so doth for his part Commit adult'rie in his hart If thy right eye or hand offend Plucke out or cut and cast away For it is to a better end One member perish and decay Then all thy body thou know'st well Should wholly so be cast to hell Of Diuorcement It hath bene said who so had sent His wife away he giuing her A letter of their diuorcement Had not bene then an offender Except the wife a whore be found To liue with her the man is bound Who so commits adultery The man or woman doth amisse And for that fault may verely Diuorced be as reason is No such offender may therefore While th'other liues match any more Of Othes Againe of old they did forbid Forswearing for the same is ill Of othes each man his house should rid So to obay Iehouahs will Othes rightly made do not delay For to performe the same alway But otherwise sweare not at all No not by heau'n the throne of God Nor by the earth for so ye fall In danger to deserue his rod. Nor by Ierusalem for this The Citie of the king it is Nor by thine head thou canst not make One haire thereof as blacke or white Most vaine are they that othes do take And vaine those that in othes delight Let ye and nay declare your will What so is more doth come of ill Of Reuenge Reuenge not though the law be so That eye or tooth must be repayde When one doth smite thee as a foe Vse patience be not dismay'd And he that for thy coate will sue Giue him thy cloake and more then due If one compell thee for a myle Do thou at least go with him twaine The asker do thou not reuile Giue thou and lend without disdaine To do men good be ready still And slow to do thy neighbour ill Loue thine enemie Loue thou say they thy neighbour well Thine enemy thy selfe may hate Of vertues loue doth all excell What so the Pharisies do prate Your enemies loue not the worse And blesse you them that do you curse Do good to them that do you hate Pray for them that you persecute They sure shall haue a blessed state My fathers will that execute He makes his sunne and rayne to fall On good and bad alike to all If man do loue or frendly be To him that doth to him the same What thankes for that deserueth he Each sinner must do this for shame Haue you therefore regard of this Be perfit as your father is Almes By sound of trumpe and in mens sight As hypocrites are wont to do To giue thine almes is not aright They gape for prayse and get no mo In secret giue what God hath sent God will reward thy good intent Prayer Pray not as hypocrites do pray All open to be seene of men But when thy prayers thou will say Shut close in chamber be thou then Pray to thy father secretly He will reward thee openly Much babling see thou do not vse Nor repetitions they are vaine The heathen hope for like abuse Some great reward thereby to gaine Be not like them for God in deed Before ye aske doth know your need The Lordes Prayer Pray thus when ye do pray therefore Our father which in heauen art Thy name be hallow'd euermore Thy kingdome we desire in hart Thy will in earth make vs to do As it in heau'n is euen so Giue vs this day our dayly bread Our debtes forgiue vs we thee pray As we our debters do and lead Vs not Oh Lord by any way Into temptation but see From euill we deliu'red be For thine good Lord the kingdome sure The power and the glorie is For euermore for to endure Which liuest in eternall blisse Let this be done oh Lord we pray In heart whereto Amen we say To forgiue one another If ye mens trespasses forgiue Your heau'nly father will againe Forgiue you yours you while you liue In loue and concord must remaine If you forgiue not other men Your faultes God will not forgiue then Fast Moreouer when that ye do fast Looke not sowre as the hypocrite That time as vayne they vainly wast For God therein hath no delite Their faces they disfigure to That men may see what then they do When thou doest fast annoint thy head And let thy face then washed be Seeme not to men as one halfe dead Let God thy deedes in secret see Thy heau'nly father both regards Thy fast and theirs haue their rewards The carefull seeking of worldly things forbidden On earth hoord vp no treasure so Where moath and canker eate apace Lest with them you do heape on woe There theeues men voyde of better grace Breake vp thus they for riches deale When digging through mēs wealth they steale But lay your treasures vp aboue In heau'n where none of these are found You on your treasures set your loue Lay not your loue so on this ground But lay it where is no decay Earth will corrupt and fade away The eye doth giue the body light And reason rules the inner man If cleare and sound remaine the sight No darknesse hurt that body can If thine eye wicked be then marke Sure all thy body shall be darke Two masters well no man can serue For truly he the one will hate And for the other loue reserue This of mans life is right the state God and your riches disagree They may not both then serued be Set not your care on meate and drinke Nor yet on your apparell so You with your selues must alwayes thinke That howsoeuer here ye go He that gaue life and body will Prouide you meate and clothing still The fowles of heau'n ye may behold To sow or reape they haue no care They neither want nor suffer cold Much better farre then them ye are Your heau'nly father feedeth these And so will you if you him please Which of you can by taking care One cubite ad vnto his length Clothing you know what things they are Who giueth them and giueth strength Learne of the lyllies how they grow To spinne or carde they do not know Yet Salomon to you I say Was not aray'd like one of theafe The grasse if God do so aray Can he not cloth you if he please The faithfull neuer fayle to speed God more regards you then a weed For meate for drinke for cloth alway Take ye no thought at all therefore The Gentiles seeke these day by day Your heau'nly father euermore Will all your wants relieue in deed He knoweth well what things ye need Gods kingdome if ye do seeke first You can not wish but you
he appear'd in maiestie Surpassing their capacitie Christ Peter Iames and Iohn then tooke Into mount Thabor all apart Where on his glory they should looke That they might ponder it in hart He tooke them three for against three Exceptions may not taken be So as the sunne did shine his face His clothes were white as is the light And two men standing in the place With whom to talke he tooke delight They Moses and Elias were That stood and talked with him there But his disciples were afraid To looke vpon so strange a sight This voice withall made them dismaid That came out of the cloud forth-right This is my sonne I loue so deare Happy are they that do him heare And Peter was amazed so That he knew not the words he spake Come Maister said he ere we go Three tabernacles let vs make Be not affraid said Christ of me For now alone you may me see So as he came the mountaine fro He said to them this vision You may declare all men vnto After my resurrection Till then to no man may you say What you haue seene all three this day Why do the Scribes said they tell vs Come needs must first Elyas be Then Christ to them gaue answer thus Elyas came they could not see And his Apostles well then wist He had spoke this of Iohn Baptist Christ comming downe from the mountaine cured a child that was lunatike When from the hill come downe they were Among the multitude was one That said oh master pitie here And helpe I pray my vexed sonne Of thy Disciples I can haue No helpe at all my sonne to saue Oh crooked generation Bring here said Christ the child to me How long shall in this nation Such vnbeleefe ingraffed be Christ then the deu'll rebuked so That from the child he made him go Then his Disciples secretly Askt why they could not cast him out It was your infidelitie Else you had done it without doubt Prayer and fasting it the way Whereby this deu'll cast out you may They came thence into Galilie where he fore-told them of his passion and payd tribute Christ told them this in Galilie The sonne of man shall giuen be Into mens hands assuredly For to be slaine as you shall see Yet he the third day shall againe Reuiue and so for ay remaine Then they which tribute did receiue Came vnto Peter secretly And said to him we do perciue Thy master at thy house doth lye Tell vs therefore and if he do Pay tribute vnto Caesar to Whose answer as he thought in deed Was that his master payd the same Wherefore he hy'de him home with speed And to his master quickly came Who then preuenting him tooke paine To aske of him the same againe What thinkest thou oh Peter show Of whom do kings their tribute take Of children or of strangers now Of strangers he did answer make By this thy reason then said he Both thou and I may well go free Yet lest we should them so offend Go to the sea and angle there Where if thou do a while attend A fish thou shalt take do not feare That in his mouth shall surely haue What they for thee and me do craue Thus Christ to Peter twise did show That eu'ry thing what so it were Himselfe the same before did know Whereby his Godhead did appeare And therewithall example gaue To pay the king what he should haue The contention of the Apostles for the primacie Christes answere and warning against offences Then his Disciples did demand Who should in heau'n the greatest be Christ did a litle child command To stand and said lo here you see In heau'n the greatest is the mild That humbleth him as doth a child Offend not these whose Angels see And do behold my fathers face Though that offences needs must be Yet sure offenders do want grace Cut of the hand plucke out the eye If that offences come thereby Of forgiuing our brethren But if thy brother thee offend Seeke thou to winne him priuatly If thee he heare not nor amend Go yet and warne him earnestly If then he do not heare the same Before the Church let him haue blame Then Peter came to him and said When that my brother doth offend Shall I when he doth seeme affrayd Forgiue him seu'n times if he mend Not seu'n times but as oft said he As he repents let him go free By you on earth what so is bound Or loosed likewise by you is The same in heau'n shall so be found Two their requests shall haue iwis Where in my name meete two or three I in the middst will surely be The example of the king receiuing accounts of his seruants and the reward of crueltie A certaine king would take accounts Among his seruants Iesus said And one was brought whose debt surmounts Ten thousand talents all dismayd Of this the mightie king could say Sell him and his my debts to pay But when the seruant cryed grace Desiring him a longer day He said not go thou for a space But I forgiue go hence away This king so full of pietie May teach vs to vse clemencie But the same seruant met his mate That ought to him an hundred pence He straight not waighing his estate Nor yet regarding the offence Put him in prison that did pray Without respect till he would pay His felowes saw and sorie were And told their master of the same Who would not long this fact forbeare But payd him like for like with shame Till all were payd withouten fayle He sent that seruant then to iayle So likewise shall my father do Said Christ except you do forgiue Yea from your hearts your brethren to Their faults whereat you so much grieue For as you hope of him to haue So graunt them grace that grace will craue Christ his iourney out of Galilie into Iudea and his Sermons in the Temple at the feast of Tabernacles Christ did depart from Galilie And to Iudea came againe Where as he passed Iordan by While in that cost he did remaine As gratiously he vsd to deale Their sicke and lame he then did heale Then came to him the Pharisie Full fraughted both in hart and minde With craft and cloakt hypocrisie Hoping in Christ some fault to find But still for all his taken toyle Ere he departs he hath the foyle The feast of Tabernacles then Was kept with great solemnitie Vnto the which those countrey men Did vse to go continually That feast was euen then at hand Which they gaue Christ to vnderstand His brethren to him therefore say Depart hence and to Iurie go That thy Disciples there they may See all thy works that here we do For none in secret workes the same That being know'n sets forth his fame My time it not yet come said he But your time alwayes ready is The world loues you and hateth me Because it doth all things
shalbe One mightie God in persons three Amen THE FIFTH PART OF THE HISTORIE OF OVR LORD AND SAVIOVR IESVS CHRIST containing those things which he did the fourth yeare after his Baptisme which was the three thirtieth yeare of his age according to the foure Euangelistes the yeare after the creation of the world 4174. To the tune of the Lordes Prayer The time of Christs departure approching he confirmed himselfe to go to Hierusalem WHen Christ had now accomplished The time appointed him before And that his death then hastened He did prepare himselfe therefore His minde he fully setled tho Thence to Ierusalem to go Wherefore he did before him send A lodging for him to prepare Of such as did him then attend Which they did with exceeding care Within Samaria entred they Into a towne for to puruey But the Samaritans in deed Their message would not then receiue When him and his they with such speed Go to Ierusalem perceiue This was the cause for all their care They could no lodging there prepare When Iohn and Iames that then were sent Saw they could not prouided be Shall we said they incontinent Command as did Elias he That fire come downe from heauen hye And so consume them vtterly Iesus rebuking them did say Know ye not yet what men ye are The sonne of man came not to slay But saue mens liues whereof haue care So to another towne they went For then the day was almost spent Christes answer to the Scribe that would haue followed him A Scribe came then to Christ and said Oh master I will follow thee For answer he was not delayd The foxes haue their holes ye see And fowles their neasts said he but I Haue not a place wherein to lye Christes answer to the Disciple that would go burie his father first But to another Christ said then Come thou forthwith and follow me Thus calleth he vs mortall men Whom when and how best liketh he My dutie first discharge must I To my old father till he dye And Iesus said to him againe Let thou the dead their dead bury For my Disciple must remaine And do his office carefully Go thou therefore abroad I say Preach the kingdome of God alway Christes answer to a third that would follow him but would first â—â—d his houshold farewell Another said â—â—e follow thee But first I must go bid farewell To such as be in house with me But Iesus said be doth not well That to the plough doth put his hand And looketh backe and lets it stand Christ sent forth the seuentie Disciples to preach After these things appointed he Of his Disciples seuentie mo That still were wont with him to be And sent them forth by awd two Where he would come before they went To do and teach as they were sent The haruest is surely said he Now verie great yet few I say Do labour in the same pray ye The Lord thereof to send away Some labourers for to take paine That by his haruest he may gaine Behold I send you go away As lambes among the wolues ye be As simple as the doues I say And as the Serpent wise be ye Do in your iourney take no care What weeds ye were or how ye fare What house or Citie ye come to Among the worthie there remaine Till you from thence haue cause to go Let them with you my peace retaine Such as do not deserue this grace Shake of their dust in the same place This dust shall witnesse against those That you desired not their wealth And that they earthly treasure chose Before this proffred sauing health And in the iudgement they shall gaine Of Sodome and Gomorh the paine Chorazin wo be vnto thee And to Bethsayda wo likewise The great works that were done by me In you ye greatly did despise If they in Tyrus had bene done They had repented long agone If Tyre and Sydon had I say Both seene and heard what ye do heare Sack-cloth and ashes eu'ry day Had bene their weed you buy it deare For at the iudgement then to thee To them it shall more easie be Thou Capernaum lift so hye Yea raised vp to heau'n aboue To hell thou shalt be brought to lye Because my works thee neuer moue If they in Sodom had bene wrought It had not yet bene brought to nought For Sodom it shall easier be Oh Capernaum be thou sure At the great iudgement then for thee The punishment for to endure Tyre Sydon and Sodom shall haue More ease then these though then ye craue He that doth heare you heareth me He that despiseth you also Despiseth me and likewise he Despiseth God whom I came fro They do aright in God reioyce That in his Preachers heare his voyce The seuentie returned and told Christ all that they had done The seu'ntie did returne with ioy And told the Lord what they had done The deuils said they could none annoy Or hurt where we to preach begonne For eu'ry where we through thy name His rage and furie soone did tame Christ said I Sathan did behold Like lightning downe from heauen fall To you I power giue be bold To tread on Serpents great or small And Scorpions yea the enemy â—hall not hurt you assuredly In this yet do not ye reioyce Tâ—â—t spirits to you subiect are But lift both hands both heart and voyce To God which hath of you such care That he your names hath written sure In heau'n for euer to endure Then Iesus said I giue to thee Oh mightie Lord and father deare Most hartie thankes thou hearest me And to my call thou giuest eare These things thou hidest from the wise Their worldly wit thou doest despise Thy secrets vnto babes withall And humble men thou doest declare These do on thee for mercy call These these oh God thy chosen are This thy good pleasure was and is Oh father none can alter this All things to me now giuen are Of my father the sonne and he No mortall man can well declare The one of them except he be Taught by the sonne and so he may Learne both to know this is the way To his Disciples turned he And secretly to them did say The eyes are blessed that do see As ye do see now at this day Prophets and Kings wisht to see so And here what you do long ago A Scribe or Lawyer tempting Christ was answered hiâ— question and taught who his neighbour was A certaine Lawyer stood vp then And tempting Christ began to say Oh master thou doest teach these men To euerlasting life the way Vouchsafe to tell it I do craue Eternall life how I may haue What is written said Christ againe And in the law what doest thou reade Thou shalt said he with euery vaine The Lord thy God both loue and dread And next the Lord thy God aboue Thy neighbour thou shalt likewise loue Thou hast said well said Christ
houre When he can make thereof no more Or when he heares one mocking say This man did worke well for a day What king also will purpose warre Ere he know what his strength may proue And will not rather send so farre And see if he some peace may moue He my Disciple that will be Forsaking all must follow me And sure what salt this earth doth yeeld If in the same no sauour be It doth no good in house or field Men cast it out at doores we see In salt of man this doth appeare He that hath eares to heare may heare The parable of the lost sheepe and the groat Then to Christ Iesus did resort Both Publicans and sinners to Such in his doctrine found comfort As still the penitent may do The Scribes and Pharisies disdain'd That Christ with sinners so remain'd Then Iesus said I came to saue That which my dearest bloud must cost How thinke ye if a rich man haue An hundred sheepe if one be lost Will he not leaue the rest behind And seeke that one till that he find Or else what woman doth not so If she ten siluer peeces had And loose but one will she not go Search till she finde and found is glad The Angels ioy as these in heart When that one sinner doth conuert The historie of the prodigall sonne Moreouer marke ye this said he Two sonnes a certaine rich man had Who cared much that they might be A cause to make his last age glad The younger led by lust would go To trauell farre his father fro Wherefore he to his father sayd Giue me that is my portion My suite let it not be denayd But make a iust diuision His substance he diuided tho And gaue him his and let him go This younger sonne did gather all His father gaue and went away From place to place as did befall In countreys strange this sonne did stray Till riot wasted all his wealth As whordome had impaird his health When he had spent all wilfully There rose a dearth throughout the land And he there pincht with penurie Was forc'd to go then out of hand To serue nor durst the man repine To keepe and feede his masters swine Where oft for want of better food Huskes with the swine this youth did eate And then the same thought very good For no man gaue him better meate And sometimes in his misery He wanted huskes assuredly Then came he to himselfe and sayd How many hired seruants be That finde my fathers house an ayde And there haue meate inough said he While I do liue thus lothsomely And neare for hunger daily dye I will vnto my father go And say to him I sinned haue Against both heau'n and thee also Forgiue me father now I craue And me receiue yet I thee pray No sonne but seruant from this day So he vnto his father went Who did his sonne from farre espy And ran to him incontinent Much pitying his misery And then vpon his necke he fell And kist him that he lou'd so well The sonne then to his father there Sayd I haue sinned against thee And am not worthie to be here Or call'd thy sonne that I should be For heau'n and earth can witnesse this That I haue runne my race amisse The father said his seruants to Bring forth my best robe vnto me To put on him this ring also And shoes on his feete I will see The fat calfe kill and make vs meate That this my sonne and we may eare For this my sonne of late was dead And now he is aliue againe The lost I found so well I sped He shall henceforth with me remaine This they performed speedily And past the time most merily Abroad the elder brother was And comming home he heard a noyse Yet knew not who was in the place Nor why his father did reioyce He onely heard the mynstrelsie With dauncing and much melodie He call'd and bad a seruant come And tell him what all those things ment Thy brother is said he come home And was receiu'd incontinent Thy father spareth for no cost To welcome him that late was lost All angrie when he heard the same He would not in vnto them go Therefore to him his father came Requesting him not to do so Now he vnto his sonne doth stand That should command with cap in hand The sonne his father answered I haue vnto thee seruice donne Yet hast thou not considered How though I were thy eldest sonne And many yeares now night and day I still at thy command did stay Yet all this time I neuer had A kid of thee that I might spend When I was willing to be glad And welcome any honest friend Yet thou the fat calfe killed hast For him that worse thy goods did wast Sonne vnto him againe said he All that I haue is thine in deed Thou euer didst abide with me And shalt therefore the better speed Yet should we ioy and mery be The dead aliue and lost to see The parable of the vniust Steward And Christ to his Disciples then Said that a certaine rich man had A Steward charged by some men That he did vse his office bad For he said they doth day by day Consume and wast thy wealth away He called him and said withall How do I heare this ill of thee For thine accounts I needs must call Thou mayst no longer Steward be The Steward then began to muse How he might best the matter vse What shall I do my master will Mine office take from me away I cannot digge nor delue but ill And begge for shame I neuer may Wherefore I must deuise sayd he That I of some receiued be His masters debters he did call And askt the first what owest thou Declare at once the summe of all For I must loose mine office now Of oyle an hundreth measures he Confest at least his debts to be The Steward said to him againe Vpon thy bill downe fiftie lay The next in debted did remaine And hundreth measures he did say Of wheate to whom the Steward sayd Write fourescore downe be not affrayd The Stewards wisdome Christ did prayse Though he vniustly dealt in deed For when he knew none other wayes He this deuisd to helpe his need The worldlings in their kind said he Are wiser then the godly be Make you so friends Christ to them sayd With riches of iniquity That when ye want they may giue ayde And then receiue you readily The iust or vniust in the small Will proue the very same in all If then ye haue not faithfull bene In wicked riches who will trust That you whose triall men haue seene In treasures true may be found iust If false to other men ye were Who shall giue you that yours is there Two masters well no man can serue For truly he the one will hate And for the other loue reserue This of mans life is right the state God and your riches disagree
witnesses arise And testifie as may appeare A truth against thee to vs here But Iesus yet did hold his peace The high Priest sayd to him againe I charge thee that thou do no lesse By God the Lord but tell it plaine If Christ the sonne of God thou be Then Iesus sayd I sure am he And ye shall see the sonne of man Sitting at the right hand of God Whose power to resist none can Nor of himselfe escape his rod And in the clouds of heau'n shall ye The sonne of man then comming see The high Priest then his clothes did rent And sayd what need we any more Of witnesses for this intent He openly blasphemeth sore What thinke ye then they cried all Death he deserues and dye he shall They mocked Christ that him did hold And spat withall into his face To strike him also they were bold So much they were deuoyd of grace With rods and fists most cruelly They beat and vsd him shamefully Then sayd they to him Prophesie Which of vs all now hath done this And other things as wickedly They did against him then deuise But he most meekely suffred all To bring vs sinners our of thrall Now all this while there at the fire Did Simon sit among them then Another mayd did thus inquire Art not thou one of this mans men Though she affirm'd it to be so Yet he deni'd it saying no. Then they that stood by sayd againe One of them thou most surely art Thy speach bewrayeth thee so plaine Thou canst not hide it for thy heart Then he to curse and sweare began That he did neuer know the man The cocke did crow then once againe For Marke doth say he crowed twise Man of himselfe is verie vaine Peter deny'd his master thrise The cocks crow could not let his fall Till Christ did looke on him withall Then he remembred what was sayd Of Iesus vnto him before And then he went out all affrayd And wept and wayled verie sore Whom late no death could terrifie Perceiu'd then his infirmitie Christ was brought vnto Pylate then President of the Romanes Iudas repentance and death Then in the dawning of the day The high Priests and the Elders did A counsell hold to find some way By death Christ Iesus life to rid Whom thence they led then hastily bound hand and foot most shamefully From Cayphas vnto Pylats hall Iesus condemned so of late They brought bound by their counsell all Reâ—oycing at his wofull state For they had no authoritie Our Sauiour Christ to crucifie Yet they into the common hall Where Pylate did his iudgement giue Went not themselues least thereby all For so the Iewes did then beleeue Should be defiled and be let Thereby the passeouer to eate While this was doing marke the end That to the traitour Iudas fell He was past grace for to amend He loued Mammon to to well Yet his offence displeasd him so That he was wrapped all in wo. When by his meanes he did perceiue His master was condemn'd to dye An inward griefe he did conceiue And did repent him mightely But his repentance tooke no place For it was voyde of faith and grace The thiâ—tie siluer peeces he Vnto the high Priest brought againe I sinn'd sayd he and wo is me Which haue procur'd my masters paine It was because you thought it good That I betrayd his guiltlesse bloud What is that vnto vs sayd they Looke thou to that which thou hast done Therein thou didst our hests obey And we will end what is begon In temple he the siluer cast And went and hangd himselfe at last The chiefe Priests tooke the siluer plate And sayd it is not lawfull we Do them put vp such is our state Among our treasure for to be And why the law doth so deuise Because it is of bloud the price Then they tooke counsell and did buy A potters field as did befall For to fulfill the Prophesie To be the strangers buriall Wherefore that field is calld I say The field of bloud vntill this day And to leaue of his tragedie Let vs returne to Christ againe Whom then the Iewes maliciously For to accuse did take such paine On Pylate they did cry and call Though then they went not to the hall Pylate went out to them and sayd What cause bring you against this man The wicked Iewes nothing affrayd For to accuse him thus began An euill doer were not he We would not haue brought him to thee Then Pylate sayd to them againe Take him and iudge him by your law We may not iudge him it is plaine Of Caesar we do stand in awe Christs word this was to verifie When he foretold how he should dye They charged Christ that found he was Peruerting of the people there Forbidding men from place to place To pay their tribute any where Vnto Augustus perswading That he was Christ their onely king As Iesus in the iudgement hall Before the gouernour did stand He sayd to Christ before them all Answer thou this now out of hand Art thou king of the Iewes or no And Iesus sayd thou sayest so The high Priests and thy nation Deliuered thee vnto me Now tell me then what hast thou done That they should so cry out on thee They say thou art a naughtie man Defend thy cause now if thou can Then Iesus sayd my kingdome is Not of this world for if it were My seruants sure would neuer misse To fight for me without all feare Ere I should thus deliuered be Vnto the Iewes as thou doest see Then Pylate sayd art thou a king And Iesus sayd thou sayst I am I was borne for this verie thing For this cause to the world I came And witnesse of the truth to beare My voyce he that loues truth will heare Pylate sent Christ to Herod and they were made friends that day Herod sent Christ backe to Pylate Pylate warned by his wife sought by all meanes to deliuer Christ Then to the high Priests Pylate sayd I find no fault sure in this man Their furie then could not be stayd But fiercely thus they all began He teacheth mouing mightily All and begon at Galilie When Pylate heard of Galilie Is he a Galilean then Sayd he and forthwith hastily Sent Christ to Herod with his men He at Hierusalem then was When all these things came so to passe When Herod saw him he was glad For he desired him to see And so his wish at last he had Which neuer till that time would be Such signes and wonders Herod thought He should haue seene as Christ had wrought He then with Christ there questioned And did him many things demand But Iesus nothing answered For all king Herod could command Though high Priests Scribes and people all Accused Christ in Herods hall Then Herod with his men of warre Mocking Christ him in white array Pylate and Herod were at iarre And were made
more about this speed Christ went thence to Ierusalem to the feast of the passeouer and there droue the buyers and sellers out of the Temple From Capernaum Christ did go Vp to Ierusalem for he As other alwayes vsed so Not sayling at that feast to be The passeouer was then at hand A feast obserued through the land When Christ came there as he did vse Into the Temple then he went Where he reprouing their abuse All such out of the Temple sent As did therein then buy or sell And told them plaine they did not well A whip of cordes Christ Iesus made Wherewith both oxen sheepe and men He droue out he low'd there no trade No not money strangers then Those thence he forst to packe away And suffred none of them to stay Such as sold doues they had a check He did command them quickly thence Perforce they must obey his beck He not regardes their ware or pence But said my fathers house make ye No house of marchandise to be They were amazed all at this Yet none of them durst disobay Resist or say thou doest amisse They yeelded all and went away But his Disciples thought in mind This zeale God ioyes in him to find When this was donne the Iewes began To question with him thus againe What signe shew'st thou oh sonne of man That thou doest this declare it plaine Destroy this Temple in three dayes The same againe I will vp raise The Temple-sixe and thirtie yeares In building was thus answer they This vnto vs no truth appeares That did thy wordes and workes obey They meant the Church of lyme and stone Christ meant his body flesh and bone When he was risen from the dead Then his Disciples cal'de to mind What he foretold and how he spread A truth in him they still did find The ground of their beliefe they make The Scripture and the word he spake While he did at that feast remaine Many beleeued in his name They saw his workes they were not vaine His wonders wanted not their fame He gaue to them no credit then For he knew well that vaine were men Christ instructeth Nicodemus in the regeneration by water and the holy Ghost There was a man a Pharisie A ruler one of chiefest fame Nam'd Nicodemus verely This man by night to Iesus came He had a minde for to amend Yet men he feared to offend Master he said we know thou art A teacher come from God aboue Such signes and workes none can impart But such a one as God doth loue Those miracles that he had donne Approued him to be Gods sonne Said Iesus I do say to thee Except a man be borne againe Of water and the spirite he Shall not Gods kingdome sure obtaine Can this be true as thou hast told May man be borne that once is old Assuredly except a man Be borne as I haue said to thee Heauen be neuer enter can Gods kingdome he shall neuer see Of flesh but flesh is borne ywis The spirite yeeldes that spirite is Thou know'st not whence commeth the wind Whose going in and out to thee Though by thine eare the sound thou find The seate thereof thou doest not see Who of the spirite is borne heare Is so though strange it doth appeare Nicodemus said how can these things be A teacher greater things should know I testifie that I haue seene When earthly things to thee I show If dull and faithlesse thou hast bene What wilt thou be when I declare Of heau'nly things and what they are No man ascendeth vp aboue But he that did descend from thence The sonne of man whom God doth loue And is in heau'n in his presence He must be lift as by Moses The Serpent was in wildernesse That who so doth in him beleeue Eternall life the same may haue For God his onely sonne did giue The faithfull from hell fire to saue The world to saue Gods sonne was sent It to condemne God was not bent Condemned shall he neuer be That doth beleeue in him the same Condemned is already he Whose faith is not firme in his name The light is come yet darknesse more Do worldly men loue then before The euill euer hate the light By it their deeds reproued are He loues the truth that with his might His deedes by day seekes to declare Oh Nicodemus all I say A faithfull heart must beare away Christ returning into Iudea preached the Gospell and Baptised the people by his Disciples neare Iohn of purifying a question did then arise After this donne came Christ againe With his Disciples as we reade Into Iudea this is plaine Where he Baptising taried Iohn did Baptise in Enon by And ply'de his office carefully Of water there they had great store And Iohn was not in prison cast But as the number waxed more Of Disciples strife grew as fast The Iewes and Iohns Disciples craue Of purifying the truth to haue Iohns testimonie againe of Iesus They also came to Iohn and said Most men to Christ Baptising go Iohn bad them be no whit dismayd From heau'n it is appointed so Ye know I said I am not he Christ must increase as you do see He that is come from God on hye Doth testifie what he hath seene He that receiues it verely Doth seale how true our God hath beene Whom God sent speakes Gods word Iohn saith And plenteously Gods spirite hath The Father lou'd the sonne and gaue All things he had into his hand He that beleeues in him shall haue Eternall life this vnderstand They dead are that him disobay The wrath of God all such will slay Iesus to auoyde danger departed out of Iudea into Galilie When he that knew of all things well Perceiued by relation Or of himselfe for he could tell His enemies intention How that the Pharisies did heare That he was famous eu'ry wheare And that he made Disciples more And more Baptised then likewise Then Iohn that had gone him before Marke ye now well Christ Iesus guise He did his office earnestly Yet voyded danger warily Christ passing through Samaria towardes Galilie conferred with a woman at the well of Sichar and conuerted many Samaritanes Christ leauing Iurie did depart And went againe to Galilie He knew what loue or hate in heart Men bare him hidden outwardly Christ through Samaria needs would go He had himselfe decreed so What workes for him did there abide To bring the Gentiles to the light He did foreknow and then did guide His companie to Siâ—har right Neare to the place that Iacob gaue Where Ioseph should possession haue And there on faithfull Iacobs well Christ Iesus sate about midday A woman that thereby did dwell For water came while he did stay But his Disciples they were gone Into the Citie eu'ry one Then to the woman Iesus said For me to drinke some water giue So she againe then vndelayd Said thou a Iew art I beleeue Iewes
your liues for now said he Gods kingdome is at hand you see He also healed each disease And sicknesse that the people had Afflicted folke by him found ease And eu'ry one of him was glad When once abroad was spread Christs fame In multitudes they to him came From all the regions round about Those then that had infirmities As palsie gripings or the gowt Came to him in great companies And each was eased of his sore To God alone be prayse therefore Amen THE THIRD PART OF THE HISTORIE OF OVR LORD AND SAVIOVR IESVS CHRIST containing those things which he did the second yeare after his Baptisme which was the xxxj yeare of his age according to the foure Euangelistes the yeare after the creation of the world 4172. beginning at the Sermon which Christ made in the mount CODOMANNVS To the tune of the Lordes Prayer vt sup CHrist did prepare all his in mind To seeke for treasure vp on hye In heau'n where as the godly find All happinesse eternally It is not health wealth shape or age That brings men to the heau'nly stage Therefore cleane contrary to those That taught true happinesse to be In earthly things this heau'nly rose A sweeter sent hath giuen thee To trace the tract that leadeth sure Where happinesse doth still endure When Christ the multitude did see A mountaine he went vp into When he was set where he would be To his Disciples he spake tho 1 The poore in spirite blessed are A kingdome God did them prepare 2 Blessed are they that mourne for good For they shall surely comfort haue Such to their power ill withstood And for amendment dayly craue 3 Blessed are they that meeke are found The earth they shall inherite round 4 Blessed are they which suffer thirst And hunger after righteousnesse For they said Christ shall as the first Be filled with all happinesse 5 The mercifull are blessed all They shall haue mercy when they call 6 Blessed are all the pure in heart They shall see God vndoubtedly 7 Peace makers they play such a part As pleaseth God assuredly Blessed are they therefore said he Gods children they shall called be 8 Blessed are they which patiently Do suffer persecution For righteousnesse they verely Shall after their affliction Gods kingdome in heauen possesse For so he will their griefes redresse 9 When men reuile you most of all And persecute you for my sake And falsly speaking ill withall If patiently you do it take You shall therefore find happinesse The salue to ease your heauinesse Reioyse also I say be glad When they haue done you greatest wrong You haue no cause for to be sad In heau'n shall you the Saints among Rewarded be as were before The Prophets whom they grieued sore Christ contrarie to the opinion of flesh and bloud and the doctrine of the Philosophers pronounceth a woe to those whom they thought happie But woe to them that are rich here And do therein repose their trust The day will come it shall appeare They dearely bought such drosse and dust True treasure in the heau'ns are found Each thing corrupteth in the ground Woe be to you that now are full For ye shall hunger after this If you were not exceeding dull For meate ye would not morgage blisse Woe be to you that now laugh so For you shall waile and weepe for wo. Woe be to you whom men do prayse And speake well of deseruing ill When you haue driuen out your dayes You shall bewray your wicked will False Prophets were by like deuice Among your elders had in price Christ teacheth his Disciples and in them all other Ministers what liues they should leade seeing they were appointed to be the salt of the earth and light of the whole world Next his Disciples he did teach What they should be in word and deed Lest when to others they did preach They to be taught should stand in need In life and manners he would haue Them honest wise and very graue Ye are the salt the earth doth yeeld If in the salt no sauour be It doth no good in house or field Men cast such out of doores we see As it could salt nothing before So it cannot be seasoned more Of all the world ye are the light A Citie set vpon an hill Can not be hid by wile or might And light a candle no man will To hide it with a bushell then When it should giue most light to men Let your light shine before men so That your good workes they all may see Your modest manners where ye go Example must to others be Your father that doth sit on hye In heau'n see you so glorifie Christ came to fulfill the law I am not come for to destroy The law or Prophets but fulfill I take in nothing so much ioy As to obey my fathers will Till heau'n and earth do all decay The law shall not be done away The least commandement exprest Who breakes and teacheth other so In heau'n he shall be counted least The contrarie who so will do Obseruing them and teach the same In heau'n he 〈◊〉 receiue a name I say except your righteousnesse Exceede the rigeteousnesse of these You shall be voyde of happinesse And heau'n as they for euer leese The Pharisies are verely Full fraught with all hypocrisie Christ interpreteth certaine Commandements or Lawes and first thou shalt not kill correcting the false interpretations of the Scribes and Pharisies Here Christ correcteth very well The doctrine of the Pharisie Ye haue ofttimes said he heard tell How they expounded sensuallie These wordes which haue bene said of old To kill another be not bold Who so say they doth kill shall be By iudgement therefore punished But maâ—ke what I say vnto thee Without cause who so is moued Against his brother angerly Is subiect to iudgement thereby Who Racha saith his brother to By counsell shall be punished Take heede therefore before ye do Ye may hereby be terrified Who so his brother foole will call In daunger of hell fire doth fall With hand with hart and so in word We often spill our neighbours life The hand doth vse to weild a sword The heart deuiseth bate and strife And wordes when one disdainfuâ— Reuileth as an enemy Christ would haue men to reconcile them selues one to another The greedy Pharisies they say That offrings and oblations please Which now men offer day by day Yet no man knowes his owne disease I say who doth his brother hate His gift is naught and worse his state If to the altar thou do bring Thy gift remembring some offence Against thy brother the lest thing Leaue there thy gift departing thence Go reconcile thy selfe againe Thine offring then is not in vaine Agree while thou art in the way With him that is at strife with thee Lest to the iudge without delay Deliuered by him thou
shall haue If for his righteousnesse ye thirst He will giue you the things you craue Care not then for to morow day The griefe with it shall passe away Christ forbiddeth rash iudgement Iudge not lest that ye iudged be Like iudgement you shall haue be sure Like measure shall be measur'd thee Looke that thine eye be cleare and pure A moate in others do not spye While that a beame is in thine eye Holie things may not be giuen to dogges Giue not to dogges that holy is Nor cast your pearles before the swine The wicked they regard not this And Epicures to lust incline When vnder feete they them haue tread They will not rest till you be dead Aske seeke knocke Aske and it shall you giuen be So they that seeke shall surely find Knocke I will open vnto thee To them that call God he is kind He loueth such men verely As pray vnto him hartily If you for bread giue not a stone Nor for a fish a Serpent send When that your sonnes for want do mone If good things you do giue and lend How much more shall the father be Giue good things if thou aske to thee The scope of the Scripture and of the strait and wide gate What you would men to you should do Do euen so to them againe The strait gate enter in vnto The way to death is broad and plaine And many find that path I say But few do go the better way False Prophets False Prophets flye with all your might Whose clothing pleade simplicitie But inwardly their minds are dight With rau'ning and all villanie Such by their fruites ye may well know For grapes on thornes did neuer grow The good and euill tree A good tree good fruit it will beare The euill yeeldes no fruit as this Ill fruit on good trees growes no where By fruit the tree best knowen is The ill men hew with fire to burne The good serue for a better turne Not eu'ry one that faith to me Lord Lord but he that doth Gods will In heau'n be sure shall saued be My father gardes all his from ill The wicked that their good workes tell Shall misse of heau'n and go to hell The house on the rocke or sand the conclusion of this Sermon All that I haue declared now Who so doth heare with good intent Is like to one that did bestow His money well that he had spent To build a house for him and his Where rayne and wind hurt not ywis But who so heareth these my words And doth them not is like a man That charges great in deed affoords To build a house where no man can Vpon the sandes where sea and wind Do spoyle and swallow all they find When Iesus thus had finished This Sermon which he there did preach The people were astonished To heare what doctrine Christ did teach He taught as with authoritie Vnlike the Scribe or Pharisie Christ after his Sermon descending from the hill and going to Capernaum healed a leaper by the way Descending downe then from the hill A leaper met him by the way And cryed master if you will Both helpe and heale me here you may I will said Christ be cleane and gone See that thou tell it vnto none Go to the Priest thy selfe to show That he may iudge if thou be cleane And offer there that thou doest owe What Moses did appoint I meane Giue them their due of all thy wealth That they may witnesse of thy health Christ healed the Centurions seruant of the palsie As Christ came Capernaum to A Captaine there a Gentile borne Who for his seruant was so woe That he seemed a man forlorne He sought all meanes his health to haue Christ with a word his life did saue The Captaines great humilitie And faith Christ Iesus did commend In Israell then verelie Like prayse to none he did extend Of these said Christ shall many come To heau'n and haue the childrens roome Christ cast out a deuill at Capernaum and diliuered the possessed from that infirmitie And so vpon the Sabbâ—th day Into the Synagogâ—â—â—e went Those workes to do without delay For which he to the world was sent The people did vpon him gaze His doctrine did them so amaze He taught as with authoritie Not as the Scribes were wont to do Or the dissembling Pharisie To whom Christ oft pronounced woe But as Gods onely sonne in deed Sent man to saue as God decreed And in the Synagogue there was A man possessed euen then Whose cure Christ Iesus brought to passe Yea in the fight of all those men His doctrine he confirmed still With wonders which he wrought at will Sathan that wicked spirite he Began within the man to cry Oh what haue we to do with thee I know thou art assuredly The holy one of God his ioy Art thou come vs for to destroy Iesus rebuked him and said Come out of him and hold thy peace Sathan of Christ was all affrayd Yet loath the man for to release But forced thence the deuill did fly Crying and tare him cruelly When he came out the standers by Were much amazed at the fight Asking each other busily How they supposed that this might Be done of him what thing is this What thinke you that this doctrine is The spirites with authoritie He doth commaund and they obay His fame was spread immediatly Throughout that region eu'ry way All Galilie did heare his fame And countreys bord'ring on the same Christ raised Peters mother in law Christ from the Synagogue did go To Symons house as doth appeare With Andrew Iames and Iohn also His Godhead he declared there Men tasted still in eu'ry place In ample measure of his grace For when to Peters house he came Peters wife mother sicke there lay A feauer vexed sore the dame Which Christ rebuking went away By touch of hand Christ helped her And she to them did minister Christ cast out deuils and healed all that came vnto him When euen came he healed all They brought to him that vexed were And the possessed there withall Of deuils among the people there That what the Prophets said before Might be approued euermore Iesus passed thence to preach to other Cities So he that night went to take rest But rose againe by breake of day For to go thence he thought it best Into a desert place away Christ then they sought and found kept so As men loath he should from them go But Christ said vnto them I must To others preach assuredly The kingdome of God this my trust I will discharge most faithfully And so he preaching dayly went Through Galilie as he was sent It came to passe as Iesus taught The people pressed on to heare Some faithfull some with faults full fraught Both good and bad to him drew neare The word of God Christ did not let To preach then by Genezaret And
What man shall haue a sillie sheepe Fall in a pit and lye in payne If it were worst of all he keepe And will not on the Sabboth day Haue care to fetch it thence away How much more may a man be then Preferd before a sheepe I pray There is no law forbiddeth men To do good on a Sabboth day Stretch forth said Christ thy withered hand This heard they all that there did stand It was restored to him so And all the people saw the same It fild the Pharisies with woe Which sought for to eclipse his fame And they went out with litle ioy Deuising Christ for to destroy For they had missed their intent Which made them rage so much the more To trappe him in his words they meant Yet fayl'd as they had done before His worthy works they did despise And went his death for to deuise But he that knew their meaning well Departed thence and went away He needed not that man should tell That they sought how they might him slay His fathers will he did respect And he his works did well effect Great multitudes him followed thence And he likewise them healed all Each one that came in his presence And vnto him for helpe did call Yet charged them they should not tell Or make him knowne if they did well Esayas Prophecie tooke place My seruant whom I chose ywis And my beloued full of grace In whom my soule delights is this My spirite put on him I will And he shall iudge the Gentiles still He shall not striue in word or deed None in the street shall heare his voyce He shall not breake a bruised reed The Gentiles shall in him reioyce Yea smoaking flaxe quench shall not he Till he both iudge and victor be Christ then had twise refelled such Opinions fond as they did hold At first they had presumed much And then againe did seeme as bold The Sabboth lets no man at need His wants supply or do good deed Iesus seeing the multitude dispersed as sheepe hauing no shepheard tooke compassion on them And Iesus Christ did not ceasse then But went about to eu'ry place In townes and Cities among men To preach and he was full of grace He healed each disease they had All men of him were very glad But when he saw the multitude He tooke on them compassion The people seemed very rude And wanting consolation For all abroad they scattered were As sheepe that had no shepheard there The haruest great and the labourers few The haruest is surely said he Now very great yet few I say Do labour in the same pray ye The Lord thereof to send away Some labourers for to take paine That by his haruest he may gaine Christ called his xij Apostles and sent them forth to preach giuing them power to worke miracles and heale diseases Then his Disciples Christ did call Power to them he gaue and grace That vncleane spirites they should all Cast out of men in eu'ry place As free you haue so likewise deale All sicke-men freely see you heale Twelue Iesus did send fotth to preach And did command them saying so Among the Gentiles them to teach Or to Samaria do not go To the lost sheepe of Israell Go first of all these newes to tell Say ye and teach that now at hand The kingdome of our God doth come Saluation throughout the land Is surely sent to all and some To all that will beleeue say ye That they the same shall shortly see Heale ye the sicke the leapers clense Raise vp the dead the deuils out cast And see when ye depart from hence Ye freely giue from first to last And in your iourney take no care What weeds ye weare or how ye fare What house or Citie ye come to Among the worthy there remaine Till you from thence haue cause to go Let them with you in peace retaine Such as do not deserue this grace Shake of their dust in the same place That dust shall witnesse against those That you desired not their wealth And earthly treasure that they chose Before this proffred sauing health They in the iudgement sure shall gaine Of Sodome and Gomorh the paine As sheepe I send you simple men In midst of worldly wolues to go Be ye as wise as Serpents then And innocent as doues also To kings and counsels for my sake When you are brought no thought then take For what ye speake it is not ye When torments for you do remaine The holy Ghost in you shall be To guide your speach and ease your paine The father shall the sonne said he And friend his friend betray for me Ye shall be hated for my name But he that dureth to the end Shall saued be and voyde of blame From persecution you defend From Citie to another go If you haue need for to do so For the Disciple is not sure Nor the seruant his Lord aboue Like death if you as I endure A signe it is of perfect loue If Beelzebub they do call me Is it strange then you so should be Nothing is hid but that shall I Make manifest and what ye heare In secret preach it openly Of men ye need not stand in feare Feare him that soule and body may Destroy in hell feare him I say If that a sparow shall not fall Nor any haire of yours decay But that your father cares for all And ouer all doth beare a sway Why should you care or be afrayd You shall be sure to haue his ayde Who so shall me on earth confesse Or me deny before men here Shall haue the like and nothing lesse In heau'n before my father there For my cause peace must needs decay And dearest friends their friends shall slay Who father friend his sonne or wife Doth loue more then he loueth me Who so my Crosse to saue his life Doth not take vp but seeks to flye The one vnworthy of me is The other shall not scape ywis He that receiueth you or me Receiueth him that vs hath sent A Prophet who receiueth he Reward shall haue to his content These litle ones who doth relieue God sure to him reward will giue Christes Sermon at the sending forth of his Apostles to preach When Iesus had then made an end Of giuing these commandements To his whom he then forth did send To teach the Iewes good documents The place he stood in was a plaine And with him many did remaine Yea multitudes of people were Out of all Iurie standing by From Tyre and Sydon they were there To heare his doctrine verely And at his hands to haue reliefe Each one as he was painde with griefe And they that with fowle spirits sore Tormented were Christ heal'd them all And still they sought him more and more Which boldly durst not on him call To touch his vesture as he went For health thereby to them was sent Then Iesus
more will I giue That you may haue abundance still He that hath not although he greeue Shall loose all that against his will For seeing they shall neither see Nor hearing heare as you heare me This Prophesie Esayas spake Which now in them fulfilled is I will this people surely make By hearing so to heare iwis That they shall not yet vnderstand Nor thinke on that which is at hand This peoples heart is waxen fat Their eares of hearing deaffe and dull They with their eyes haue winked at The truth least they should see it full Heare and perceiue it as yee doe And turne that I might heale them to But blessed are your eyes they see Your eares also do heare the same All you thereto appointed be For you and such I surely came The rest of sinne are very full And shall remaine both blind and dull Christ interpreted to his disciples the parable of the seed This Parable heare yee therefore When that a man Gods word doth heare And vnderstands thereof no more Then ere he heard it may appeare The deuill did catch the word away That seed by the way side it lay He that had seed in stonie ground Did heare the word and that with ioy Yet had no roote he was not sound He dured not for eu'ry toy When trouble for the word shall be Offended very soone is he He that receiueth seed also Among the thornes are they that heare The word of God yet go it fro For worldly cares in them appeare Deceitfulnesse of riches make Gods word in them no place can rake But he that doth receiue the seed In the good ground is euen he That heares the word and doth indeed Gods word perceiue it for to be This beareth fruite an hundreth fold Some sixtie some thirtie be bold The second parable of the good seed and of the tares declaring likewise the state and condition of Gods word Another parable Christ spake The kingdom of heau'n is I say Much like one that good seed did take And sowed it and went away But while men slept the enemy Did sowe tares there immediatly And when the blade sprung vp in sight And brought forth fruite then did appeare The tares that he had fowne by night The seruants seeing said with feare Didst not thou Maister sowe good seed Whence commeth then this filthie weede He said the enuious man it is That hath done this the seruants say Wilt thou that we go gather this And plucke it vp to cast away Nay while about the tares ye go Lest ye plucke vp the wheate also Let both grow till the haruest come Then will I to the reapers say The tares now gather to one roome And binde them in the fire to lay My wheate see yee that reapers are It be brought to my barne with care This parable declareth well The state and the condition Of Gods word writ in the Gospell The doctrine of saluation The housholder soweth the seeed The deu'll sowes tares and other weed The 3. parable of the mustard seed wherein is set foorth the nature of Gods word Another parable againe Christ put forth to them saying this Gods kingdome like vnto a graine Of mustard seed assured is Which man doth sow within his field That it some fruit to him may yeeld This seed of seedes is least of all Of hearbes it growes the greatest one And is a tree though not so tall Yet birds may breed his branch vpon The nature of Gods word iwis Is very well comparde to this For though this seed is very small And subiect to contempt therefore Yet it of hearbes growes great'st of all And birds therein do breed some store Gods word at first seemes so I say Yet groweth great each day by day And sharpe in tast is mustard seed Yet heateth man though bitingly So is Gods word in very deed Sharpe to the minde yet soule healthy Of him that takes of this a graine It sharply heateth eu'ry vaine The fourth parable of the leauen declaring also thereby the nature of Gods word A parable then like the last Iesus put forth to them againe To proue the nature force and tast That in Gods word doth sure remaine It is like leauen laide in meale That leaueneth it eu'ry deale As little leauen leaueth not Till it haue leauened the meale So Gods word searcheth eu'ry knot Or vaine in man his sores to heale The one makes bread tast well in deed The other man which most hath need In parables spake Iesus then Vnto the people that were there He would not speake vnto those men This otherwise as may appeare That it might be fulfilled so Which Dauid spake so long ago My mouth I will open saith he In parables and shew to man The things that now so hidden be And haue bene since the world began Then Iesus sent the men away For there he made no longer stay Christ went into the house where he declared to his Disciples desiring it the meaning of the two parables of the tares When Christ into the house was come Then his Disciples to him say Declare to vs the very summe And certaine meaning we thee pray Of the same tares so in the field We can no reason of them yeeld Then Christ did answer them againe He that there sowed the good seed It was the sonne of man certaine The field it is the world in deed The good seed are Gods children sure The tares the wicked and vnpure The enemie the deuill it is The haruest of the world is end The Angels are reapers iwis Which to his haruest God will send And as the tares are burnt in deed The wicked so in hell shall speed The sonne of man then forth shall send His Angels for to gather all That in his kingdome do offend And still from sinne to sinne do fall These to hell fire shall be cast tho Where they shall gnash their teeth for wo. Then shall the iust men shining be As is the Sunne in greatest light In the kingdome of heau'n said he Abiding in their fathers sight See ye these words receiue in feare With humble heart and open eare The fift parable of the treasure hid in the field declareth the worthinesse of Gods word While Christ did in the house remaine As he had done by the sea side He spake in parables againe To such as did with him abide The worthinesse declared he And of what price Gods word should be Like treasure hid within a field Gods kingdome is which when one found In hope it would much profit yeeld He hid the same within the ground For ioy and hope such wealth to wield That man sold all to buy that field The sixt parable of the pearles declaring as before the worthinesse of Gods word Againe he said Gods kingdome is Like to a warie marchant man That sought pearles and found one of price To buy the which this marchant can
that paine Striue not so for that meate said he Striue for the meate I shall giue thee Then said they all what shall we do That worke the works of God we might Christ Iesus answered thereto And taught them how to do it right The worke of God with good intent Is to beleeue in whom he sent Shew vs some signe that we may see And so beleeue in thee they say Our fathers Manna had to be Their meate in the desert alway God gaue them bread from heau'n to eat And it was long our fathers meat And Iesus then said verely Not Moses but my father he Doth giue to you assuredly True bread from heau'n beleeue yee me The bread of God came downe I say And to the world giues life alway Then they againe to Iesus said Giue vs this bread Lord euermore The bread of life be not affraid I am he shall not hunger sore Nor thirst that doth beleeue in me So do not you for all you see They come to me whom God doth giue And them I do not cast away I loose not one that doth beleeue But raise him vp at the last day My fathers will not mine to do I came from heau'n this earth vnto The Iewes did murmure he said so I am the bread that downe did come What is this Iosephs sonne or no Is not he knowne to vs said some No man can come be sure said he But whom the father drawes to me Whom God hath taught come vnto me Not that the father sure hath bene Of any one saue onely he Which is of God said Iesus seene To him that doth in me beleeue Life euerlasting I do giue I am the bread of life in deed Your fathers Manna long did eate Yet are they dead so shall not speed Such as feed on this heau'nly meate My flesh it is the bread I giue Which is life to all that beleeue How can this man giue vs to eate His flesh say they can it so be My flesh except it be your meate Add that ye drinke my bloud said he Eternall life I say againe Doth not at all in you remaine Who so doth eate my flesh I say And drinkes my bloud hath life in deed Him I will raise at the last day But so shall not the wicked speed My flesh and bloud is faithfully Both meate and drinke assuredly He that doth eate my flesh is he And he that drinkes my bloud withall In whom I dwell and he in me As God the Father eternall Hath sent me so by him I liue And life to others I do giue From heau'n aboue came downe this bread Not as your fathers that did eate The Manna sent them yet are dead For he that eateth of this meate Shall liue and he shall neuer dye As sinners do eternally At Capernaum spake he this Where some of his Disciples were That said a hard thing sure it is Who can abide the same to heare Doth this offend you then said he What if I should ascend will ye It is the spirit that in deed Doth quicken not the flesh be sure In spirit this both life doth breed And nourish euer to endure For what I speake to end all strife To you is spirit and is life Yet some of you beleeue not this He knew them and the traitour to Therefore I told you how it is That come vnto me any do The father onely giues this grace To him that doth enioy the place So some went cleane from him away Then Iesus said vnto the rest Will ye depart from me this day And walke as they where you thinke best Shall we said Peter then at last Words of eternall life thou hast And we beleeue and know thou art The Christ the Sonne of God in deed And if we did from thee depart We should be sure full ill to speed Christ did againe the traitour note Least his Apostles should forgote Christ rebuked the Scribes and Pharisies for trangressing Gods commandements and answered their accusation against his Disciples for eating meate with vnwashen hands The Scribe and faithlesse Pharisie Came then our Sauiour Christ vnto Supposing by their subtiltie For to deface what he would do They from Hierusalem then came That so faine would his works defame Why thy Disciples do transgresse Of elders the tradition Do thou now vnto vs expresse This was at first their question For they say they wash not a hand When they eate meate we vnderstand O hypocrites said Christ againe You do Gods word still disobay Supposing you shall scape the paine That you do merite day by day He that his parents sure saith God Dishonoreth shall feele my rod. In words you worship but in vaine Lip labour liketh not the Lord A double heart he doth disdaine When words and deeds do well accord Then prayse and prayer he will heare Which neuer doth in you appeare It is not meate that hurteth man Which with the mouth he doth consume But euill thoughts which now and than Do moue the heart to fret and fume Or else deuise some euill deed Of this ye should take greatest heed Each plant my father planteth not Shall by the roote be pluckt againe Our God will not all his forgot When hypocrites do suffer paine These blindly still the blind do lead You haue no cause their craft to dread Christ cast a deuill out of the daughter of a woman of Canaan and healed many other From thence likewise did Iesus passe Of Tyre and Sydon through the cost Of such great care our Sauiour was To saue that else might there be lost He ceassed not but day by day Did good to all that would him pray Behold a woman came to him That did within those borders dwell Whose daughter was in eu'ry lymme Sore vexed with a deu'll of hell Christ she most earnestly did pray From her to driue the deu'll away Whose suite though seeming to deny Christ graunted vnto her at last When that he saw how faithfully She hop't his fauour for to tâ—st He gaue to her to do her good Some portion of the childrens food Christ returned thence againe into the costes of Galilie healed a deaffe man that stammered in his speach and many others and fed 4000. men besides women and children with seuen loaues Christ did returne yet then againe Into the costes of Galilie Their late contempt and deepe disdaine Withdrew not so his pietie Among the middest of wolues he still Protecteth safe his flocke from ill A deaffe man vnto Christ they brought That stambâ—ed in his speach also He graunted them what then they sought And healed him and let him go So that amazed in great feare They gaue God prayse all that were there He then vp to a mountaine went And sate him downe vpon the same And the people with full intent By multitudes vnto him come To heare his doctrine and to craue That they some helpe of him might haue They thither
brought the lame the blind The deaffe the dumbe and maymed sort These had as they did hope to find Their former health to their comfort So that the people did reioyce And praysed God with heart and voyce Which caused Christ to pitie these As he before had done also When in the desert to their ease He fed fiue thousand men and mo This did he that they might perceaue That Christ would not his chosen leaue Wherefore he fed now once againe Foure thousand men sure at the least Neare Galilie on that mountaine Where he had healed all the rest With seu'n loaues and few fishes small Christ Iesus fed those men withall The Pharisies and Saduces tempted Christ and desired him to shew them a signe To Magdala when this was done By ship our Sauiour did sayle To whom the Saducees did soone And Pharisies without all fayle Resort which faine a figne would see From heau'n aboue if it would be They could discerne the outward face And each appearance in the skie These hypocrites had yet no grace But needs they would Christ Iesus trie Those that by tempting Christ assayle Do most in all their fetches fayle For those no figne at all could haue But that of Ionas which we reade That lay three dayes as in a graue Within a whale as he were dead The sonne of man shall euen so Lye in the graue and rise therefro Christ commanded his Disciples to beware of the leauen of the Pharisies They thence went to the other side But had forgot to buy them bread So farre mens fancies wander wide When they do stray from Christ their head These minded not that Iesus could Prouide them meate when that he would Christ warning them to shunne alway The leauen of the Pharisie Made them conceiue this doth he say Sith we forgot some bread to buy They neuer thought how he had fed Foure thousand men with litle bread This leauen of the Pharisie The Saducees and Herod to Then his disciples warned he They should in any wise forgo False teachers and their doctrine flee For they mens soules do slay yee see Christ healed a blind man in Bethsayda Then Iesus to Bethsayda came Where they vnto him brought one blind Desiring him to heale the same For other helpe they could not finde Out of the towne the blind led he Where afterward he made him see Christ Iesus spat his eyes into And put his hands vpon him then And said now tell it if thou do See any thing among these men I see them walke as trees said he Though perfectly I cannot see Christ put his hands on him againe And bad him looke then all about He looked and saw each thing plaine He stood of nothing then in doubt Go home said Christ sith thou art well Of this in towne to no man tell Peter in the name of all the Apostles confessed Christ to be the sonne of the liuing God to which confession Christ answered and in his name promised vnto them all the keyes of the kingdome of heauen When to Caesarea Iesus came Called Philippi as we reade Of his disciples then what fame He askt of him abroad was spread The sonne of man I am said he What do men say therefore of me Iohn Baptist some name thee they say Elias some do thee suppose Or Ieremias or some way That of the Prophets one of those That in the elder times haue beene Is rise againe and of them seene But whom say ye said Christ againe That I the sonne of man should be Then Simon Peter said certaine The sonne of God we knowledge thee Then Christ said Simon verely Blessed thou art and worst thou why To mens opinions subiect I Most willingly my selfe do giue Yet mine do know me perfectly And as they know do so beleeue This knowledge thou couldst neuer haue Of flesh and bloud but God it gaue O Peter this confession The ground worke of my Church shall be For vpon that foundation I meane to build a Church for me The gates of hell shall not preuaile Against the same but still shall fayle To you of heau'n I giue the key That is the preaching of my word All men that will not it obey Against all such draw out this sword What so in earth ye loose or bind The like in heau'n the same shall find Then charged he that they should tell As then to no man what he were Eâ—â— Christ we learne to know full well We may not preach him without feare For though no more but man we see Yet must we know him God to be Christ taught the faithfull to beare his Crosse and rebuked Peter for disswading his death From that time forth Iesus began To shew that he himselfe must go Vnto Ierusalem for man To suffer and abide much wo The elders Priests and Scribes had plaine Deuised all to haue him slaine And though he told them this before The third day I will rise againe Yet Peter thought it wisedome more To keepe him thence to shunne the paine And therefore he tooke him aside But Christ would not his words abide So he that late reueal'd by God Did know and knowledge Christ his sonne Doth straightway here deserue a rod Not knowing yet what he had donne When selfe-will casts Gods word behind Our weaknesse then we quickly find Here Peter doth presume to teach His master Christ himselfe to saue Christ him of follie did appeach And so a sore rebuke him gaue Oh Sathan come said he behind On earth not heau'n thou set'st thy mind The faithfull must beare the Crosse Then Iesus said to them againe If any man will follow me He must forsake himselfe at vaine And beare my Crosse though vext he be If his afflictions shall be sore Yet in the same I go before Who so would liue still lothing paine And yet doth seeke his life to saue Doth loose his labour this is plaine Life without me he cannot haue He that for my sake yeelds to dye Shall saue his life eternally What profit shall that man obtaine That winnes the world his soule to loose When he hath reckned all his gaine Most vaine it is that he doth choose For he that will not for me dye Shall dye a death perpetually For sure the sonne of man he shall In glorie of his father deare The Angels him attending all In iudgement here againe appeare And then according to his deed Shall eu'ry man be sure to speed Yet truly vnto you I say That some of them which here do stand Shall not by death be fetcht away Vntill the time be neare at hand That in his kingdome they do see The sonne of man so come to be Christ was transfigured on mount Thabor in the presence of Peter Iames and Iohn talked with Moses and Elyas Saint Mathew after sixe daies said That Iesus was transfigured The order of it made affraid All such as saw what happened For
most gloriously the people crying Hosanna to the sonne of Dauid When they were thence to Bethphage come Which to Ierusalem is nye From the mount Oliues he sent some To the next village by and by There hence to fetch an asse away For him to ride vpon that day If any one say ought say ye Thereof the Lord as now hath neede And he will send the same to me Therefore go hence and come with speed That Prophecies so long ago Might be fulfilled he did so To tell it Sion see ye go Behold thy king doth come to thee Meeke sitting on an asse and lo This happened then so to be But his Disciples as forgot These things at first perceiued not Yet the Disciples went away Accomplishing their masters mind They brought the asse without delay Which Christ had told them how to find And put their clothes the asse vpon That Iesus then might ride thereon A multitude that verie day Of such as were come to the feast When they heard Christ would ride that way Met him and they for ioy were prest To spread the branches they did beare And some the clothes that they did weare Moreouer they that deckt the way And went Christ Iesus there before And they that followed each did say And prayse his name for euermore The king of Israell is come Blessed be he for ay sayd some Hosanna Dauids sonne to thee Blessed art thou some other say All prayse and honour giuen be To him that commeth now this way Hosanna thou which art so hye In heau'n full of all maiesty When to Ierusalem they came The Citie all was moued then And fully prest this pompe to blame Who is this say they to those men Iesus they say that Prophet he Of Nazareth in Galilie Christ then againe purged the Temple and cast out the buyers and sellers thence and cured certaine blind and lame persons So Christ went straight the Temple to And purged then againe the same He did as he was wont to do All their abuses greatly blame Reprouing all those euill men That made Gods house for theeues a den Then to the Temple came the blind The halt and such as grieued were Whom Christ did heale such grace they find As seeke to him let no man feare Those men gaue God continuall prayse That such a Prophet he would rayse But when the chiefe Priests Scribes and such Saw all the maruels that he wrought It grieu'd them and disdayning much They vtter'd what in mind they thought For they the children heard on hye Hosanna Dauids sonne to cry Doest thou heare what these children say Said they to Christ he sayd I do Haue you not read of this I pray That written was so long ago By babes and sucklings sure thou hast Made the prayse perfect now at last Christ conferred with certaine Grecians or rather they desired to see Christ and speake to him Now there were certaine Greekes as then That came to worship at the feast Which were among those other men As earnest as they saw the rest These say to Philip we pray thee To helpe that we may Iesus see Philip told Andrew of the same Againe they both to Iesus went As messengers in those mens name And told him all and who them sent The houre is come the sonne sayd he Of man must glorified be I say vnto you verily Except that the wheate corne do fall Into the ground and therein dye It bringeth forth no fruit at all But if it dye assuredly It bringeth fruit abundantly Another Sermon of the Crosse wherein Christ couertly foretold of his death He that doth loue his life he shall Loose it but who so hates it here Shall keepe it to life eternall Though this scarce truth to some appeare Learne ye your selues to hate therefore That ye may liue for euermore If any man wish to serue me Let him come follow me I say For where I am there shall he be I will protect him night and day They in my seruice that endure My father will them honour sure And Iesus herein declared Himselfe a perfect man to be My soule saith he is now troubled From this houre father saue thou me But therefore to this houre I came Yet father glorifie thy name Then came from heau'n a mightie voyce Saying I haue and will againe This may each mortall man reioyce That God did not for him disdaine To send his sonne to beare his blame In whom he glorified his name Then sayd the people that stood by It was some thunder that they heard But others sayd nay verily An Angell if ye do regard Spake vnto him thus diuerse men Did diuersly iudge of it then And Iesus answered and sayd This voyce came not because of me But for your sakes be not affrayd Great things you shall both heare and see For your sakes God will glorifie The sonne of man assuredly Of this world now the iudgement is The Prince thereof cast out shall be And if I were lift vp iwis Ile from the earth draw men to me Now this sayd he to signifie What death then shortly he should dye We heard out of the law sayd one That Christ for euer should remaine And how sayst thou he must be gone The sonne of man must needs be slayne And lift vp high vpon a tree Tell who that sonne of man should be Then Iesus sayd a litle while Light is with you walke in the same Least that the darknesse you beguile Who walkes therein may merite blame While ye haue light beleeue therein As louing it and hating sinne So left he them and went againe As he was wont to Bethany For there all night he did remaine Among his chosen company This night by night he vsed still That so he might all things fulfill Christ going the next day from Bethany to Hierusalem cursed the figge tree As Christ returned the next day From thence Hierusalem vnto He was an hungred by the way And to a figge tree he did go That grew hard by thereon to find Some figges as then to ease his mind But when thereon he onely found Greene leaues and not a figge at all From top he cuâ—â—d it to the ground Fruit hence-forth on thee neuer shall Be seene againe sayd Christ and so Away from thence they all did go Like to an hypocrite this tree 〈◊〉 leaues but had no fruit so eate Lâ—t hypocrites then warned be 〈◊〉 the some cursse that Christ did threat 〈◊〉 with one word the Lord he may Head branch and root cause to decay All his Disciples then did see What he had done and heard likewise The curse Christ gaue vnto that tree Yet litle thought in any wise What would be fall but thence they went The Citie to as they were bent Christ to the Temple went againe And purg'd it as he did before Reprouing them that were so vayne Abusing still then more and more That place appointed
Lord his heart was mou'd His mind did giue him so When Peter heard that it was he He girt his coate in hast And cast him selfe to swimme to see He would not be the last But all the rest by ship did come They were not farre from land For as it is supposd of some The shore was hard at hand Two hundreth cubits off they were Or thereabouts they say The net they drawing with them there Made to the shore away Assoone as they were come to land A fire of coles they see And Iesus by the same did stand There bread and fish had he The fish vpon the coales were layd That Iesus had before Bring of your fish also he sayd Thereof they had great store Then Peter stept to draw straightway The net and fish to land His maisters mind he did obay He readie was at hand And hundreth fiftie then and three Of fishes great they had Their net vnbroken safe they see For all they were so lade Come now and dine then Iesus sayd Of the Disciples none Durst aske who art thou so affrayd They were at what was done And eke withall they knew it well Him Christ the Lord to be No man had neede the same to tell They knew all it was he Iesus tooke bread and fish likewise And to them did it giue And they did eate what did suffise Thus Christ did his releeue This was the eight time since he rose Christ did to them appeare To some Disciples as to those That met together there Christ restored Peter to his former place thrise calling him to answer his three fold deniall of him Christ sayd when they had dined well And each of them at ease Simon thou sonne of Ionah tell Lou'st thou me more then these I loue thee Lord thou knowst I do My lambs said Christ then feed Iesus the second time said so He sayd I do indeed Then feed my sheepe Christ Iesus sayd Yet once againe did he Aske Peter which made him dismayd So instant him to see Yea Peter grieu'd in heart to heare Christ aske him thrise the same It doth to thee ô Lord appeare That I do loue thy name Then feed my sheepe sayd Christ againe So to his former place Christ called him by this tis plaine And he receiued grace He did his maister thrise denie So grieuous was his fall And thrise to ease his miserie Christ Iesus did him call Amen amen I say to thee When thou wast young thy way Was where thou wouldest then as free To walke at will each day When thou art old another shall Gird and leade thee also Where thou wouldst not haue gone at all Yet mayst not chuse but go And this Christ vnto Peter spake To signifie thereby What death or end Simon should make His God to glorifie And when to him he had said this Christ said then follow me That now his calling certaine is Assured well is he He turning backe did soone espie Him whom the Lord did loue Then following after verely He Christ for him did moue For this had leaned on Christs breast As he at supper sate And asked Christ then for the rest Who should betray his state When Peter therefore saw him so To Iesus he did say Lord what is it that he shall do Now tell me I thee pray Then Iesus said to him againe Man what is it to thee If till I come he do remaine See thou thou follow me Then went this word among them all That that man should not die Christ said not vnto him he shall Not die assuredly But if vntill I come I will That tarie still shall he Do thou what I command fulfill What is the same to thee Christ appearing to his Disciples reproued their infidelitie The ninth time that Christ did appeare Of incredulitie He did reproue all that were there Through imbecillitie They did misdoubt though they did see And speake to him withall Thus blind as they our eyes now be Till Christ them open shall Christ appeared to his Disciples and fiue hundred brethren at once in a mountaine in Galilie The next time was in Galilie Vpon a mountaine there Where he as Paule doth testifie To many did appeare There vnto his a charge he gaue The which to vndertake He promisd them a helpe to haue Which should them able make For Iesus spake and thus did say All power now I haue In heau'n and earth and euerie way Which God the Father gaue Go ye therefore now teaching all Baptizing them also Throughout the world where I shall call And you oppoint to go Baptize all in the Fathers name The Sonne and holy Ghost What I command do ye the same Your labour is not lost Teach them all things for to obserue That I command indeed I am with you you â—le preserue And still releeue your need I will saue them that shall beleeue And be bapâ—ized to My Father did me power giue That I the same may do The vnbâ—leeuers all shall be Condemned for the same And these things also do shall he Which shall beleeue my name The deuil cast out in my name shall With new toungs speake shall they No deadly drinks shall hurt at all And serpents take away On sicke men if their hands they lay They shall recouer well All these things they shall day by day Performe as I do tell Christ appeared againe to theÌ„ in Bethanie and led them into mount Oliuet where after he had blessed them he ascended most gloriously into heauen in their sight Then the Disciples all they were By Iesus led away To Bethanie together there On his ascension day And to mount Oliuet they went Where he did blesse them all Willing them then as they were sent All his elect to call When he had blessed them foorthright While they beheld the same A cloud tooke him vp out of sight Which sodainly so came And while they looked stedfastly To heau'nward as he went Behold two men did stand them by Perceiuing their intent Which sayd to them why gaze ye so Ye men of Galilie This Iesus whom ye see thus go Shall so come verily Those men in white apparell were Whom they knew not as then Angels to be that did appeare As though they had bene men Which when they heard they eu'rie where Went preaching day by day The Lord increasing here and there His Church by them I say And eke confirming what they taught With signes and wonders so That still some fish their net then caught Where euer they did go Thus Iesus was seene bodily In fortie dayes we reade Eleuen times assurely When he rose from the dead And after his ascension Christ also was seene twice By Steuen when they did him stone And by Saint Paule likewise First Steuen vpon Gods right hand Did see him sit on hie The which to them that there did stand He then did testifie Paule persecuting sore of such