with Samaria disagree And water askest thou of me Then Iesus said oh woman see If thou the gift of God didst know And who it is that asketh thee Thou woldest not then seeme so slow To aske of him for he can giue Water of life if thou beleeue The woman said the well is deepe And thou hast nought to draw withall Where doest thou then thy water keepe Or doest of me for water call This well our father Iacob gaue Whose name in reu'rence here we haue Art thou greater then Iacob was He dranke of it and so did then His children in this very place His cattell and his houshold men But Iesus said who so doth drinke Of this will thirst thou so must thinke The water I giue who drinke will Thirsteth no more while he doth liue It shall in him be springing still To euerlasting life this giue That I thirst not oh sir said she Nor to draw here more driuen be Then Iesus said thy husband call And come againe with him to me Husband I haue now none at all To Iesus then thus answered she Thou hast well said thou hast had fiue This is not thine that is aliue Thou art a Prophet I do see Our fathers worshipt in this mount But now Ierusalem say ye To worship in men most account The houre is come now shines the light Yet here nor there ye worship right Ye worship that ye do not know We worship that we know and see Saluation is I say to you Come of the Iewes and now said he In truth and spirite men haue need The father to adore in deed God is a spirite and they must In spirite and in truth withall Worship him that in him trust And on his name for mercy call Messiah comes said she againe And he will teach vs all things plaine He said to her lo I am hee And his Disciples came with that When Christ so talke with her they see They all did maruaile much thereat They of their meate did offer make But he as then no meat would take His meat was to accomplish then His fathers will and worke to end The haruest is among all men Most ripe where to God did you send The reaper wages shall receiue And sower ioy thereof perceiue Herein the prouerbe true is found That one doth sow another reape You reape where other tild the ground Their labours all on you I heape The woman all this while was gone And left Christ there though not alone She went into the Citie then Come see said she one that told me All I haue done and straight the men Went out our Sauiour Christ to see Whom when they saw they did beleeue For wordes that she to them did giue When the Samaritanes were come They prayed him to tarie there And he abode as saith some Two dayes with them and they with feare When they had heard and seene also His wordes and workes beleeued tho Then said they to the woman we Do now beleeue not for thy sake But for the wordes and workes we see For Christ the Sauiour we him take So two dayes after thence he went To Galilie for so he ment Christ passing from Samaria to Galilie turned aside to Nazareth where he preached on the Sabboth day c. When from Samaria he was gone To Nazareth he tooke his way Christ knew what best was to be done No time he would at all delay About his fathers worke he went In which his time he wholy spent Then to their Sinagogue to preach Vpon the Sabboth day he came Esayas booke they did him reach That he might reade vpon the same Whereout he taught them what he was What he should teach and bring to passe Christ reproueth the ingratitude of his countreymen affirming that a Prophet is esteemed least in his owne countrey His doctrine so astonied some That they did wonder at his words Whence doth say they this wisedome come Or who to him these works affoords Is not that Iosephes sonne we pray The Carpenter we heard this day His mother Marie we do call His brethren be they not with vs As men amazed were they all To heare him so that text discusse Saue in his countrey then said he A Prophet sure shall honor'd be Wherefore he said to them againe When famine plagued Israell And they for three yeares wanted rayne And moneths six as stories tell Eliah then was sent to none Saue in Sarepta vnto one Oh Israëll thy leprosie Was great in Eliseus time Yet none could find a remedie But Naaman was cur'de by him When they heard this it grieu'd them sore And they deuisde his death therefore So rising they out thrust him all And lead him on that verie hill Where they might geue him such a fall As might haue pleasde their wicked will He freely yet from them did go Escaping for all they could do Christ went from Nazareth to Cana in Galilie where he restored the rulers sonne to health the noble man and all his houshold beleeued To Cana Christ from Naz'reth came The Galileans him receiu'd And ioyfully they did the same His Godhead there was well perceiu'd Of water wine he made before Now one to life he did restore A ruler that thereby did dwell At Capernaum had a sonne Sore sicke when he of Christ heard tell And what he eu'ry where had donne He came to Christ and him did pray To go with him without delay His sonne was ready now to dye Therefore he made the greater hast Your vnbeliefe assuredly Doth make you many wordes to wast But go thy way thy sonne doth liue He went and did Christs word beleeue And as he iourneyd by the way He heard his sonne recouered And by accompt that houre and day That Iesus health had promised So he and his beleeued all Christ when he will can thus men call Christ hearing of Iohns imprisonmēt went to Capernaū after he called sundry of his Apostles preached the Gospell in Galilie and healed the diseased When Iohn was then imprisoned Or much about that tyme I say Christ went and he inhabited Capernaum and there did stay The sea of Zabulon was nye And Nepthalim assuredly Esayas Prophecid before That there the Gentiles should haue light Whose darknesse still increased more Vntill of Christ they had a sight Who doth vnto all that beleeue Eternall life most freely giue Christ passing throughout Galilie As he did walke by the sea side Apostles called verely Of such men as did there abide Poore fisher men without respect By whom he would his works effect With whom about from place to place Throughout all Galilie he went Heaping on his all gifts of grace And teaching them with like intent He made those foolish weaklings rise For to confound the worldly wise And as he past continually He euery where did dayly teach Their Synagogues to openly He went the Gospell for to preach Amend
so relieue I know not if he sinfull be Once I was blind and now I see How op'ned he thine eyes say they I told you once and hard you not Would yee his doctrine now obey Or else haue yee so soone forgot They checkt him saying Moses we Not his disciples sure will be God spake to Moses this we know This man we know not whence he is The blinde man answer'd now I trow Ye doubt not that he hath done this And this to all men may appeare That God will not a sinner heare It was not since the world began Hard that his eyes were opened That was borne blind and now a man But that of God it happened If he were not of God said he He could not haue done this for me In sinnes they said borne sure thou art Doest thou teach vs what we shall do They cast him out he did depart When Iesus heard they had done so He said to him wilt thou beleeue Now in the sonne of God and liue Who is he Lord that so I may Beleeue in him as thou would'st haue It is my selfe Christ did then say Lord I beleeue helpe me I craue Christ said I make the blind to see And seeing blind that loue not me Some of the Pharisies were there Which hard these words and thus said then Are we blinde how doth that appeare The blinde are not such sinfull men But now ye say that yee do see Your sinnes remaine therefore said he Of the true shepheard and the hireling And that they might the better know Their state and so consider his Christ in a parable did showe The faithfull Shepheard who he is The hireling Iesus did bewray And theefe that liues vpon the pray Verely verely I do say He that into the sheepfold goes Beside the doore some other way May well be counted one of those That comes to rob and steale the sheepe Which other men haue charge to keepe But he that goes in by the doore Is sure the sheepheard of the flocke To him the porter euermore Doth ope assoone as he doth knock To call his sheepe he doth reioyce The sheepe likewise to heare his voyce When that his owne sheepe forth a â—nt He goeth before they follow fast His voice they know and what he meaâ— Their perill he before doth cast A stranger they will surely flee By voice they know him strange to be They vnderstood not all he said Therefore Christ said to them againe My sheepe may safely vnaffraid Voide of all dangers so remaine I am the doore of all my sheepe And care most safely them to keepe All that before me came said he That is such as I haue not sent And such as faine them Christ to be The theeues and robbers are I meant But sure the sheepe heare not their voice Though to heare mine my sheepe reioyce By me the doore if any do Enter therein shall saued be He in and out shall freely go And pasture finde that followes me The theefe doth steale destroy and kill I came to saue my sheepe from ill I the good shepheard surely am That giue my life to saue my sheepe An hireling hath thereof no shame To see the Wolfe and take no keepe He leaueth them the Wolfe doth catch Destroying one at eu'ry snatch The hireling fleeth he serues for hire And therefore cares not for the sheepe But that thâ— is not my desire The good â—pheard takes little sleepe And I am 〈◊〉 my sheepe I know And so 〈◊〉 knowne of mine I trow So as the father knoweth me So I do him and for my sheepe My life I lay downe and there be Another flocke that I must keepe As yet of this flock are not they When I call them they will obey My Father loueth me the more Because I do my life downe lay That I might it againe restore No man takes it from me away To lay and take I power haue But this precept my father gaue Among the Iewes dissention grew For these his sayings then againe He should be mad if some said true And haue a deuill some other plaine Confest his words and workes to be No deuillish deeds to make men see Three feasts of dedication We finde in scripture there haue beene The first solemniz'd Solomon In haruest time this feast was seene Then Ezra next did keepe the same In Spring when they from Babell came Then Iudas Macchabeus he Lastly this feast solemnized In winter and the same decree Till Christes time so continued When Iesus walkt which tooke small rest In Solomons porch this was the feast The Iewes came there him round about If thou be Christ now tell vs plaine How long doest thou keepe vs in doubt Then Iesus answerd againe Ye trust not what I told yet see That my works do witnesse with me Yea yee beleeue not for ye are Not of my sheepe mine heare my voice I know them and for them I care To follow me they will reioyce Eternall life to them I geue They perish not with me they liue My father which gaue them to me Is greater then all this I know And in my fathers hand they be None can thence take them as I trow I and my father sure are one The Iewes againe thought him to stone Then Iesus said good works I haue Shewd from my father verely For which of them now do I craue Would you stone me so cruelly For the good worke no stone cast we Thou being but man God makest thee If that the Psalmist Gods them call To whom Gods word then giuen was The Scripture faultlesse yet withall Do I blaspheme or so trespasse To say that I Gods sonne should be Sent to the world as here ye see If I do not my fathers workes Beleeue me not but if I do In you some hidden hatred lurkes That wilfully the truth forgo Beleeue the works that ye do see The father works the same by me So then ye shall know and beleeue That sure in me the father is And I in him yea he doth giue To me all power that is his They sought then to put him in bands But he escapt out of their hands Now when the Iewes he scaped fro He passed Iordan then againe Where Iohn Baptized he did go And there a while he did remaine There many did to him resort And did receiue of him comfort Though all Ierusalem of pride And deepe disdaine did Christ refuse Yet there where then he did abide They did our Sauiour better vse What Iohn of him had spoke before They knowledgd praysing God the more Thus many conflicts Iesus had With froward foolish Pharisies All which might make his chosen glad That he obtaind such victories To God let vs the honour giue That did our weakenesse so relieue Giue glorie vnto God on high To Father and so to the Sonne See that the same perpetually Vnto the holy Ghost be donne Which is and was and so
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
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
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
amisse Go ye that are thereto addrest I will not yet go the feast These things he said abiding still In Galilie behind the rest Till he his time might there fulfill Yet after he came to the feast Though secretly which made the Iewes To muse they heard of him no newes Some cald ' him good some other bad And said he doth but men deceiue When halfe the feast was done yet glad Were some our Sauiour to receiue Christ taught the Iewes did maruaile how He should vntaught the Scriptures know My doctrine is his that sent me If any man will do his will Gods word he shall know it to be And that I must the same fulfill Vnrighteousnesse in him was none He sought Gods glorie not his owne Did Moses geue to you a law And none of you doth keepe the same And yet as men that stood in awe For breach therefore ye do me blame Yea more then that ye would me kill That onely do my fathers will Thou hast the deu'll said they againe Who goeth about to kill thee here One worke I did I tell you plaine You maruell at on may with feare You Circumcise them Sabboth day I made one whole ye would me slay Iudge not as outwardly you see But righteous iudgement iudge withall Is not this man said some eu'n he Whose death they haue decreed all Do not the rulers see plainly That he now speaketh openly This man from whence he is know we Whence Christ shall come we cannot tell Whence I am come ye know said he Him that sent me ye know not well But I know him and he sent me I am of him so are not ye They sought to take him but did lay No hands on him his houre as then Was not come to make him away Some said beleeuing of those men When Christ comes shall his works be mo Or greater then we see him do The Pharisies and high Priests sent Their officers Christ for to take A litle while now be content Said Christ my iourney hence I make To him that sent me will I go You leeking shall find me no mo Now whither will he said the Iewes That we shall not find him againe If to the Grecians that were newes This thing they would haue learned faine Ye shall seeke me but shall not find Nor come to me in deed or mind Now in the last day of the feast Christ stood and cryde to them and said If any thirst lo I am prest To giue him drinke be not affrayd In him that doth beleeue in me A well of life shall springing be This of the spirit they should receiue That would beleeue in him he spake Although the Iewes did not perceiue Nor great account of Iesus make When Christ was glorified then The holy Ghost was giuen men So many when they heard this said This is the Prophet certainly Some other not so much affrayd Said he was Christ apparantly Of other minds againe were some From Galilie Christ should not come Saith not the Scripture of the seed Of Dauid Christ shall come to thee And out of Bethlehem in deed Where Dauid was thou shalt him see Each lik't his owne opinion â—f Christ which bred dissention Some would he should then taken be Yet no man layd on him a hand The rulers all did so agree And so their officers command Of whom they askt the reason why Christ was not taken by and by The seruants said assuredly Man neuer yet like this man spake The rulers answerd bitterly Ye are deceiu'd and much mistake What trust do wisemen to him giue Though the vnlearned him beleeue Then Nicodemus said our law Doth iudge no man before it heare What he hath done of him in awe Art thou said they what doest thou feare Search well and looke from Galilie Comes not one Prophet verely Then eu'ry man went to his home And to the mount of Oliues he That night did go it seemes to some He went to pray yet other be Of mind he went to take his rest In Bethanie where he thought best A woman taken in adulterie brought to Christ we deliuered by him from her accusers And early in the morning came Into the temple Christ againe Yea all the people saw the same Christ sate him downe and taught them plaine But marke the craft and subtiltie Of Scribe and froward Pharisie Though they had by temptation Assaild him oft and had the fall A new deuise they hammer on To tempt our Sauiour Christ withall A woman in adulterie Was found the act did verifie They brought her vnto him and said Moses commandeth in the law No time therein should be delayd To stone such as liue not in awe But master what doest thou suppose That God would haue vs do with those Then Iesus stouped to the ground And with his finger wrote thereon The Scribes still asking him were found Some answer to their question He that sinnes not let him not stay Cast the first stone at her he may They hearing this no longer muse They go out eu'ry one away Their conscience did them so accuse To punish her they would not stay And Iesus was there left alone With her and she condemn'd by none Sith no man hath condemned thee Go hence said Christ and sinne no more Misliking her adulterie Which sure he would haue punisht sore But that repentance by her face He saw in her had got his grace Christ is the true light of the world Of this world sure I am the light For him to walke that followeth me Yea cleare shall be the darkest night The light of life that man shall see Thou of thy selfe doest record beare It is not true we therefore feare Then Iesus said though I do so My record yet is true in deed For whence I came and where I go I know to learne I haue no need This thing from you so hidden is Because ye iudge each thing amisse I iudge no man yet if I do My iudgement ye the truth shall find For I alone do nothing so I still am of my fathers mind The father is alwayes with me Two witnesses allowed be Where is thy father then say they Ye know him not nor will know me You all the sonne do disobey And yet the father faine would see He that doth seeke the sonne to know To him I do the father show Iesus spake in the treasurie As he within the Temple taught These sayings all most constantlie And yet no man Christ Iesus caught His houre vncome no man there could For all their spight on him take hold Then Iesus said I go my way Ye shall seeke me yet dye in sinne You cannot come to me I say Your wickedednesse so wraps you in Will he said they himselfe go kill That he saith so what is his will Ye from beneath I from aboue Ye of this world I am not thence Your sinnes said Christ I cannot
and play This worke shalt thou do euerie day But God said vnto him againe Thou foole this night ile fetch from thee That soule of thine that is so vaine Whose then shall all thy riches be So shall it euer be with those That too much trust in wealth repose Therefore take you no thought I say How you shall make prouision But giue your selues to learne the waye That leadeth to saluation Almes watching and all wisedome ye Shall vse and with all men agree The parable of the watchfull seruant A faithfull seruant and a wise Made ruler of his maisters men His maisters trust will not despise But feedeth them in season then When he is absent as he were Still present with his seruants there That seruant happy is in deed Whom his master when he doth come Shall finde so doing he shall speed Be sure of some especiall roome His master will make him therefore Ruler of all he hath in store But if the euill seruant say My master will not come as yet And smite his fellowes day by day And still with drunkards drinke and eate His master will come when that he Expecteth not him for to see And will cut him of from the rest And giue to him his portion With hypocrites this is the least That after condemnation He shall both weepe and gnash for wo His teeth that he applyed so Wake therefore and be warie men For ye know not what houre or day Your master comes least sleeping then You with the reprobates decay And watch that with th'elected sort Receiu'd ye be to your comfort Christ receiued infants brought vnto him and blessed them At that time some did children bring That Christ his hands on them should lay But his Disciples did the thing Dislike and would haue said them nay But Iesus said forbid not these For such my heau'nly father please Assuredly to you I say Gods kingdome who receiueth not As doth a child there shall not stay Of him no place may there be got In armes Christ tooke the infants tho And blessed them and let them go Christ conferred with a rich young man that would be iustified by the law When Iesus was gone on the way There came one after him apace Which kneeling downe to him did say Good master shew me so much grace That I may know how I may haue Eternall life good Lord I craue Then Iesus answerd him againe Why doest thou call me good said he There is none good this thing is plaine Saue God alone I tell it thee Eternall life thou mayst not see If broken these commaund'ments be Thou shalt not kill by word or deed Nor yet commit adulterie Thou shalt not steale for all thy need False witnesse is plaine trecherie Thy parents honour not for pelfe Thy neighbour loue thou as thy selfe I haue said he obserued all That thou commandest from my youth What lacke I yet before I shall Haue life I pray thee tell me truth Sell all if thou wilt perfect be And giue the poore that want by thee This made the yong man very sad Who then with sorrow went away The great possessions that he had His feruent zeale did soone allay The rich t'enioy eternall blisse Said Iesus sure a hard thing is Whereat amazed as they were And thought that few could saued be Christ said to them do you not feare But marke and listen vnto me What men impossible do take God possible the same can make Life euerlasting promised to all them that follow Christ. Then Peter said we follow thee Forsaking all what shall we haue When I in throne of maiestie Shall sit though you do nothing craue Vpon twelue thrones you shall sit by And iudge all Israell certainly For who so shall his house forsake His parents or what other friend For my name and doth well it take Or wife or wealth what God doth lend The same an hundreth fold shall he Enioy and life eternall see And Christ pronounced in this place That many first should be the last And that the last obtaining grace Should be the first the first outcast And that this sentence is certaine By parable Christ made it plaine The parable of the labourers sent to the vineyard The kingdome sure of heau'n is so Much like to a houshoulder heare That to hire labourers would go Assoone as day light did appeare With whom for pence he did agree All day to worke this was their fee. About the third houre of the day When he came to the market place The idle thence he sent away Into his farme to worke apace Likewise the sixt and ninth houre he With other moe did so agree Againe th'eleu'nth houre there he found Some other idle standing by Go hence he said to my farme ground Why stand vee thus so idlely No man hath hired vs you see Go to my Vineyard then said he When eeuen came the maister said Vnto his steward call them soone For I would haue the workemen paid That all this day my worke haue done Begin and pay the last of all As he is seru'd the other shall A pennie then each of them had From last to first as he did go Which made the first men very sad They thought their pay should not be so Go to said he this is your hire You may no more of me require This parable may teach vs all As Peter true humilitie Not to presume on Christ to call As meriting felicitie Least we of first the last may be And last be first in each degree The crueltie of Pylate towards certaine Galileaas and of the Towre of Siloam When Christ had ended thus the same Which neuer shunned any paine Though in Iudea was a fame That he should of the Iewes be slaine He went about his fathers will Therefore the Iewes sought him to kill Then some told him how cruelly Those Galileans vsed were Whom Pylate caused for to die Without respect he slew them there And mingled with their sacrifice Their bloud which was a strange deuice Then Iesus said suppose ye these Were greater sinners then the rest I tell you nay your sinnes doubtlesse May cause that you shall so be drest So of the eighteene whom the towre Of Siloam slue all in an houre The parable of the barren Figge tree This parable Christ did declare A certaine man a Figge tree had Which for three yeares he still found bare When fruite would make the owner glad Come Gardiner cut downe said he Why are we combred with this tree The Gardiner then said againe Lord let it stand this yeare also Till I once more haue taken paine To dig it round and dung it to If then no fruite this tree do beare It shall no longer tarrie there Christ healed a woman that had had a spirit of infirmitie xviiij yeares and was so bowed together that she could not lift vp her selfe As Christ taught on a Sabboth day A woman whose infirmity Had
They may not both then serued be All these things heard the Pharisies Whose greedinesse was very great They mocked Christ for phantasies They do account his words as yet Before men ye you iustifie Though fraught with fowle hypocrisie Gods kingdome suffreth violence Since Iohns time to this very day The Gentiles with all diligence Without the law now call'd obay The law and Prophets haue their end And he is come whom you attend I came not sure 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 historie of the rich glutton and of poore Lazarus Christ said a certaine rich man he Was cloth'd in purple and fine white His fare most daintie vsd to be For he therein did take delite As costly was the mans aray So faâ—'d he sumptuous eu'ry day There was a certaine begger that Was named Lazarus also Which was layd at the rich mans gate All full of grieuous sores and wo This man therewith had more annoy Then Diues had in heart of ioy And he desired for to haue Wherewith his body for to feed The broken meate yet no man gaue One crumbe for to relieue his need The dogges yet came and lickt each sore These then their master easd him more It came to passe the begger he Dying was carried thence away In Abrahms bosome for to be The Angels there this man did lay Those messengers God sent to fetch To heau'n to him that silly wretch The rich man also shortly dyed His wealth could not deaths dart withdraw But needs he must be buried Each man must yeeld to natures law And as the begger was on hye So Diues deepe in hell did lye From whence as he in torments lay And looked vp he might espy Aboue from him so farre away Where Lazarus in heau'n did ly With Abraham so was he blest For there Gods chosen all shall rest Then cried Diues loud and sayd Oh father Abrah'm pitie me Let not thy mercie be delayd My cruell torments thou doest see The firie flame doth frie me so That here I wallow full of wo. Send Lazarus that once he may His finger in the water dip This feruent heate for to allay If it were but the verie tip One drop to coole my tongue withall That so his finger would let fall But Abraham said thus againe The pleasures sonne thou didst receiue Remember now and this mans paine Thy wealth at will did thee deceiue Therefore art thou as doth appeare In paine and he in pleasure here Comforted now is Lazarus And thou in hell tormented art There is set likewise betweene vs A mightie gulfe no litle start So that none hence go to you may Nor come from thence to vs away Here Christ did speake of heau'n and hell No Purgatorie then was found Or else Christ Iesus could not well As schoole men can all things expound But wo to them that thinke them wise And do Christs doctrine so despise Him Diues said I pray thee send Oh father to my fathers house To warne my brethren to amend And force no wealth so friuolous Vaine trust therein hath wrought my fall And will do theirs I feare me all Send him therefore father I pray For fiue of them I left behind Which warned may amend their way And become of a better mind Oh father shew them so much grace Least they should come into this place Then Abraham said thus againe They Moses and the Prophets haue If they do not heare them in vaine They shall obtaine what thou doest craue They warne all men to seeke for grace While they haue time to shunne that place Nay father Abraham said he But if one from the dead do come To them repentant they will be And be affrayd then of this dome They will not sinning wilfully Be subiect to such misery Then Abraham said to him sonne If that those men they will not heare But do as thou before hast donne No more will they to this giue eare For truth in Gods word seeke they must And not on dead men vainly trust Here heau'n is the appointed place Where Gods elect for aye shall rest In hell we see such as want grace All torments are for them addrest Gods word not dead men must vs guide Vnlesse we meane to wander wide As for all Dunses drowsie dreames Or Monkish toyes to mocke an ape Or franticke Friers for all their theames They now want nayles new pits to scrape Their Purgatories had a fall There is not one now left of all Offences are to be auoyded and our brothers trespasses forgiuen Though that offences needs must be Yet sure offenders do want grace Offend not these whose Angels see And do behold my fathers face He that doth so were better sure In surging seas death to endure And if thy brother thee offend Seeke thou to winne him priuatly Or if he heare not thee and mend Take two or three in company But if he heare not then the same Before the Church let him haue blame But if he do repent he sayd As oft as he doth thee offend And seemeth still to be affrayd And seekes all meanes for to amend Not seu'n times but as oft said he As he repents let him go free And the Apostles all said then O Lord increase our faith we pray If ye had faith as much ô men As is a mustard seed I say You might command this mulb'rie tree So growing in the sea to be Which of you if his seruant were At plough or did his cattell feede When he came home would say sit here And so serue him at boord with speed And would not rather bid him dresse That he him selfe might eate a messe Or who doth thanke his seruant then When he perfourmeth readily What he commandeth that his men Should see accomplisht faithfully I trow the seruant may be â—lad That he did what his maister bad So likewise ye when ye haue done What you are bid although with care Say that small profit may be wonne By such slacke seruants as ye are We haue done you may say also What was our dutie and no mo Christ healed ten leapers As to Ierusalem he went And passed thorough Galilie Ten leapers did them selues present To Iesus Christ immediatly Which stood farre off and cried thus Haue mercie maister now on vs. And when he saw them then sayd he Vnto the Priests go straight way now That they may iudge you cleane to be And haue what law doth them allow And as they went they cleansed were While Christ remained euen there Then one of them when he did see That he was healed verie well Returning backe with loud voyce he Gaue praise to God for what befell He falling downe vpon his face Gaue thanks to Christ that shewd him grace The same was a Samaritan Which cleansed came so
space Abrode the streetes to go He while the doores all close were kept And they of him did talke Into the midst of them then stept He made no longer walke Christ shewed his diuinitie Herein we must confesse Yet left not his humanitie For he meant nothing lesse Nor did he pierce the doores indeed As foolish Papists hold For so to do he had no need That could do what he would If barres or bands and iron gate Gaue Peter leaue to go Why wonder ye so much thereat If these did euen so And that no fayned shape he had As ghosts or spirits haue To ease their feare and make them glad His hands and feete he gaue That they should handle them and see That he had flesh and bone And not as spirits wont to be For they haue neither none Therefore set care and feare aside These troubles that arise You may out of your hearts let slide And them as toyes despise The bodie that was layd in graue Now glorifi'd they see And to their handling subiect haue So good a God is he Lo thus did Christ to his appeare Such as sought him indeed At eu'rie time and tide his eare Was open to their need The morning Marie did him see The women towards noone To Peter next appeared he And these ere day was done To the Disciples late at night Appeared Christ also Great comfort had they of that sight And so had many moe But while for ioy they did not yet Beleeue that it was he Their blindnesse did them so much let That then they could not see Christ did againe vnto them say Peace be vnto you all As me my Father so I may And do you to me call To be sent foorth as I was sent To do my Fathers will The which you must with good intent As I haue all fulfill He breathed then on them and sayd Receiue the holy Ghost And so gaue them such heau'nly ayd As might releeue them most Whose sinnes ye do remit they are Remitted then said he Whose sinnes retained ye declare Retained shall they be And while they wondred yet he sayd Haue ye here anie meate A peece of broyled fish they layd Before him for to eate And of an honie combe a peece Which meate then surely he Did take and eate that he by these Might shew him man to be Then sayd he vnto them againe These are the words I spake When as I did with you remaine And here abiding make Fulfilled needes must all things be Which by the Prophets were As also Moses writ of me As in the Law ye heare And he their vnderstanding then Did open that they might See what was sayd by holy men And know the Scriptures right Thus it is writ thus behoued Christ Iesus for to die And rise againe so from the dead The third day verily And that of sinnes remission And eke repentance should Be preached to each nation As hath before bene told And that in Christs name alonely Which here should first begin For his name is assuredly The onely salue for sinne Now ye of these things witnesse are Which happened to me Therefore see you your selues prepare And alwayes readie be The promise that my Father made You shall receiue indeed The same Ile send to make you glad Assure your selues with speed Therefore when I depart you fro See that you tarrie still Here in this Citie for I go To do my Fathers will In his good time he from on hiâ— Will to you power giue To preach abrode this mysterie That many may beleeue Christ the eight day after appeared to them againe Thomas himselfe being then present But Thomas was not with them there Which of the twelue was one When Iesus did to them appeare For he from thence was gone And the Disciples to him sayd When he was come againe We saw the Lord while hence ye stayd And did abrode remaine Except in his hands I do see The print of eu'ry naile And put my finger there sayd he Your words will not preuaile Except also into his side My hand that I may thrust Your newes from reason are so wide That them I will not trust Now eight dayes after Christ had bene With his Disciples there He thus againe was likewise seene Vnto them to appeare And that while Thomas was within The doores then shut withall To stirre vp Thomas from his sinne And raise him from his fall Christ came and in the midst he stood Peace be to you he said Come hither Thomas for thy good I come be not affrayd Put in thy fingers here and see My hands and side also They beare their marks now faithfull be And let this weaknesse go Then Thomas answered and sayd My Lord my God art thou Thomas said he be not dismayd Because thou seest me now Thou dost beleeue blessed I say Are they that haue not seene And haue beleeued without nay As I with them had beene And many other things did he More then are written here And his Disciples witnesse be That dayly with him were But this is written that ye might Beleeue that Iesus is That Christ the sonne of God whose right Is to giue life to his Christ appeared to Iames. And Iames another time did see Christ Paule doth it declare Whereof we may assured be For Christ of his had care And as to Peter so alone He vnto Iames then came Thus did they see him euery one And witnessed the same Christ appeared to seuen of the Disciples as they were fishing at the sea of Tiberias After these things Iesus also Did shew him selfe againe To his Disciples seuen or mo Where then they did remaine At the sea of Tiberias For they a fishing were And thus as then it came to passe That they were fishing there These were together in one place And Simon Peter sayd Ile go a fishing for a space To whom they promise ayd For they sayd we will go with thee And so away they went Soone shipt they were as they would be Small time therein was spent But they that night their labour lost Christ Iesus was away They tooke no fish along the coast All night till it was day That Christ came vnto them and then When he was come indeed Though past all hope as wearie men Yet presently they speed For when it was now early day Christ on the shore did stand They knew him not as Iohn doth say Though they were neare at hand Haue ye sayd Christ sirs anie meate They answered him no. Christ doth not his at all forget Where euer that they go Cast out your net and you shall find On the right side said he So they obeyed Iesus mind And cast that side to see Their trauels past was then no let They did what Christ them bad They scarse could draw to land the net Such store of fish they had Then that Disciple whom Christ lou'd Said vnto Peter lo It is the
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