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A64433	The testament of the twelve patriarchs, the sons of Jacob translated out of Greek into Latin by Robert Grosthead ... and out of his copy into French and Dutch by others, and now Englished ...; Testaments of the twelve patriarchs. English. 1658.	Grosseteste, Robert, 1175?-1253.	1658 (1658)	Wing T794_VARIANT; ESTC R33914	69,032	168

with her Vpon a time while I was away she maried Sylon to a woman of Chanaan which her deed when I understood I cursed her in the bitternesse of my soule so she died in the wickednesse of her sons A two years after these things as I went to sheare my sheepe Thamar decking herselfe live a Bride sat her downe at the gate of the City For it was the custom of the Amorites that their brides do set them selves forth at the gates of their cities by the space of 7 da●es together to be abused by fornication I therefore being drunken with the waters of Horek knew her not by reason of wine insomuch that her beauty together with the attire in decking of her selfe deceived mee and thereupon turning aside unto her I said shall I come in unto thee and she answered what wilt thou give mee and I gave her my staffe and my Gyrdle and the Crowne of my kingdome Vpon my companying with her she conceived afterward I not knowing my self to have been the doer thereof would have put her to death for it But she having kept my pledges in store shamed me with them and when I had heard my owne words of her in secret which I had spoken to her when I lay with her in my drunkennes I could not put her to death because it was of the Lords doing but I touched her not any more to my dying day For when I had done this abhomination in Israel lest she might worke wyles with me I sayd I would fetch my pledges again of her but when I enquired for her the townsmen said there was no bride in the city because she came from another place and had sit there but a little while she deemed that no man knew of my going in unto her Afterward we came into Egypt to Ioseph because of the dearth Six and forty years old was I when we came hither threescore thirteen yeares have I lived here And now my Sonnes heare me your father in all things that I charge you withal and keepe you all my sayings in doing all manner of Righteousnesse before the Lord and in obeying the commandements of the Lord God and walke not after your own lustes nor after conceits of your own mindes in the pride of your hearts neither glorie in the workes of the strength of your youth because it is sinfull in the sight of the Lord For in as much as I gloried in my battailes and upbraided my brother Ruben with Bilha my fathers Wife because no face of any beautifull woman had yet deceived mee therefore the spirit of fondnesse and fornication fel upon me so that I was overtak●n both in Bethuse the Chanaanite and in Thamar the Wife of my owne sons And I said unto my father in Law I have made my father privie to the matter therefore I will take thy daughter to my wife Hereupon he shewed me an infinite masse of gold in his daughters be●alf for he was ● king decking her with Gold and Pearl willed her to poure out wine to us at the Supper The beauty of the woman and the wine together dazled mine eyes and voluptuousnes did so darken mine understanding that I fell in love with her and brake the commandement of God and of my fathers tooke her to wife According to the intent of my heart the Lord paied me home for it for I had no joy of the children that I had by her Now therefore my Children be not drunken with wine for wine turneth a Mans understanding away from the truth and kindleth in him the fire of lust lead●ng his eyes into errour insomuch as wine is a servant to the spirit of lechery to further the feeding of the mind with voluptuousnesse and so these twayne bereave a man of all power For if a man drink wine till he be drunken he traineth his minde unto the filthy thoughts of lechery and kindleth the body to carnall copulation And if desired occasion serve sinne is wrought without shame Such a thing is wine my sons for a drunken man is ashamed of nothing Behold it made both me Thamar do amisse so as I blushed not at the multitude in the city but went aside unto her in the sight of all men and committed a great sinne in discovering the uncleane privities of my own sons Through drinking of wine I was not ashamed to break Gods Commandement in taking a woman of Chanaan to Wife Wherefore my sonnes he that drinketh wine had need of discretion the discretion that every man ought to use in drinking of wine is that he be ashamed to over-drink himself For if he passe that bond he forgoeth his understanding cleaveth to the spirit of errour which causeth the drunken man to talke filthily to do wickedly not to be ashamed but to boast of his lewdnes thinking it to be good He that committeth whoredome is bereft of his libertie and becommeth a bond-slave of lecherie and cannot get out of it again after the same manner that I was made naked For I gave over my staffe that is to say the stay of my tribe my girdle that is my power my crown that is the glory of my kingdome H●wbeit repenting these things I forbare all wine and flesh unto mine old age and was utterly unacquainted with all mirth And the Angell of God shewed me that women should from time to time over-master all men as well Kings as captives and bereave great men of their glorie For the poverty of a poore man is a greater fence to him than is the strength of a mighty man Therefore my children keep measure in drinking for there are in it foure noysome spirits that is to wit of concupisence of heart burning of lechery and of filthy gaine If yee drinke wine merrily in the feare of the Lord with shamefastnes ye shall live But if ye drink without regard of shame feare of God then turneth it to drunkennes dishonesty stealeth in And if yee drink none of all then shall ye not sin neither in slanderous words nor in quarrelling nor in railing nor in breach of Gods commandements neither shall ye perish before your time For wine discloseth the secrets of God man unto Strangers like as I bewrayed the secrets of God and of my Father Jacob to Bethsue the Chanaanite which God hath forbidden to bee disclosed Also wine is a cause of warre and sedition Moreover I charge you my sons that you love not money ne look upon the beauty of women for mony womanly beauty made me to overshoote shoote my self in Bethuse the Chanaanite And I am sure that these two things shall corrupt mine of-spring and mar the wise men of my linage and hurt the kingdome of Juda which God hath given me for obeying my Father for I never repined at my

spitefulnesse which counselled me to devoure Joseph as the Leopard devoured a Kid But the God of our Father Jacob did not put him into my hands nor suffer me to finde him alone that I might dispatch two Scepters in Israel by committing that wickednesse And now my children I tall you of a truth that unlesse you keep your selves from this spirit of lying and wrath and love truth and long sufferance ye shall perish Wrath is blind my children and no wrathfull man looketh truth in the face because that although they were a his Father and mother yet doth he hold them all his enemies Though he be his brother yet he b knoweth him not though he be the Lords c prophet yet obeyeth he him not though he be a d righteous man yet he regardeth him not and though he be his e friend yet he considereth it not For the Spirit of wrath besetteth him with the snares of error blinding his naturall eyes and dimming the eyes of his minde by falsehood and giving to him a sight of his own making And wherein bleareth he his eyes In hatred of heart for he giveth him a self-willed heart against his brother to spite him and envy him My Sonnes wrath is mischievous for it becommeth a soul to the soul and subdueth the body to it self by overmastering the soul and giveth power to the body to work all wickednesse And when the soule hath wrought it justifieth the thing done because it seeth not Therefore he that is wrathfull if he be a man of might hath trebble power in his anger One through the help and furtherance of his Servants Another of his riches wherethrough he perswadeth and overcometh his unrighteousnesse and a third of the nature of his own body which of it self worketh evill And though he that is angry be a poor man yet hath he his naturall power doubled For the said Spirit do●h alwayes further his wickednesse by causing his deeds to be matched with lying Wherefore consider the power of wrath how vain it is For he is bitter in speech and walketh at Satans right hand that his deeds may be wrought in untrustiness and lying For Satan doth first of all sting him by speech and when he hath once pricked him forward be strengthneth him by deeds and troubleth his understanding with bitter nips and losses and so provoketh his minde to excessive wrath Therefore when any man speaketh against you be not moved to anger and if he praise you as good men be not puffed up nor changed into voluptuousnesse and sternesse of countenance For when a man heareth a thing that misliketh him first it tickleth him and stingeth his mind so that he thinks he hath just cause to be angry Now therefore my children if ye fall into any losse and hinderance be not out of patience for the spirit of impatience maketh men to lust for the things that is forgone and to be angry for the want of it Beare your losses willingly and be not out of quiet for it for unquietnes engendereth anger and untruth and it is evill to have a double face Anger and untruth talke one to another to trouble the understanding And when the mind is cumbred with disdain the Lord departeth from it and Belial getteth the domin●on of it Therefore my children keepe the Lords commandements and lawes eschew untruth and hate it that the Lord may dwell in you and Belial fl●e from you Speak every of you the truth to his neighbour that ye fall not willingly into incomberance and so shall ye be in quiet and ye shall have the God of peace war shall not prevaile against you Love the Lord all your life long and love ye one another with a soothfast heart For I am sure that in the latter daies ye shall depar● from the Lord and walk in naughtines work●ng the abhominations of the Gentiles and haunting wicked women in all lewdnes by the working of deceitfull spirits in you For I have read in Enoch that Sathan is your prince and tha● all the spirits of fornication and pride shall ply themselves in laying snares for the children of Dan to make them sinne before the Lord But my children stick ye unto Levi and looke upon him in all things The children of Juda shall snatch away other mens goode like Lyons through covetousnesse For this cause shall ye be led away with them into captivity and there receive all the plagues of Egypt and all the malice of the heathen whereupon ●e shall returne to ●h● Lord and obtaine mercy and he shall bring you into ●is holy place and proclaim peace to you The Lor●s saving health shall spring up unto you out of the Tribes of Juda and Levi He shall make warre against Belial and give our young men the victory in revengement He shall deliver the imprisoned souls of the Saints from Belial and turn your unbelieving hearts to the Lord and give everlasting peace to such as call upon him The Saints shall rest in him and the righteous shall rejoyce in the new Jerusalem which shall glorifie GOD for ever Jerusalem shall no more be wasted nor Israel led into captivity because the Lord shall be conversant among men in the midst of it and the holy one of Israel shall raign over you in lowlinesse and poverty and he that believeth in him shall certainly reign in Heaven Now my Children feare the Lord and beware of Satan and his spirits And draw neer to God and to the angell that excuseth you for he is the Mediator between God and man to set peace in Israel He shall stand against the Kingdom of the enemy and therefore will the enemy labour to overthrow all that call upon the Lord for he knoweth that whensoever Israel decayeth then shall his enemies Kingdome come to an end But the said Angel shal strengthen Israel that he come not to an evill end At that time shall Israel depart from iniquity and the Lord shall visit such as doe his will in all places of Israel and among the heathen his name shall be The Saviour Therefore my children keep your selves from all noysome dealings and put from you wrath and all untruth Love truth and mildnesse and look what you have heard of your father deliver it over to your children that the Father of Nations may receive you For he was soothfast long suffering meek lowly and a teacher of Gods law by his own works Therefore depart from all unrighteousnesse that ye may stick to the righteousnes● of the Lords Law and bury ye me by my Fathers In saying these things he kissed them and slept the sleep of the world And his sonnes buried him laying his bones by Abraham Isaac and Jacob And like as Dan had prophes●ed to them that they should one day neglect Gods law and estrange themselves from the off-spring and native Countrey of Israel so came