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A19265	A godlie sermon, preached on Newe yeeres day last before Sir William Fitzwilliam knight, late lord deputie of Irelande, Sir Iames Harrington knight, their ladyes and children, vvith many others, at Burghley in Rutlande. By the minister of God Anthony Anderson. Hereto is added a very profitable forme of prayer, good for all such as passe the seas: by the same author framed, and vsed in his aduentured iourney.	Anderson, Anthony, d. 1593.	1576 (1576)	STC 568; ESTC S108500	29,532	74

Amen Laus Deo per Christum 1. Ian. 1575 Psa 77.21 Psal 80.1 Esai 40.11 Psa 110.1 Ma. 23. Act. 2.34 Io. 10.11 1. Pe. 2.25 Io. 5.24 Io. 10.15 Mat. 11.28 Io. 21.15.16.17 Act. 20.28 Luke 15.4 5. Mat. 18 12 Lu. 10.34 Esai 53. 1. Pe. 2.24 Ma. 12.20 Io. 15.2 Io. 15.2.3 Eze. 3.18 Act. 20.28 Zach. 11.17 Rom. 8 1. Pet. 2. Rom. 8. 1. Pe. 5. Io. 10. Esa. 53.7 Heb. 12.2.3 4. c. Psal 37.25 1. Kin. 17.4 5.6 1. Kin. 17.14.15.16 Dan. 14. story of Bell. Io. 6.11.12 13. Mat. 6.33 Psa 37.19 Phi. 4.11 Psa 37.2.3 Psa. 17.14 2. Cor. 5.8.9.10.11.16.17.18 2. Cor. 6.9.10 Luke 16 vers 2 Io. 5.24 Ioh. 7.39 Iohn 4.14 Math. 6. vers 3. Rom. 7.18.19.20 2 Chro. 24 17.18.19.20 Rom. 8. Io. 17.2.6 Rom. 8.29 Eph. 1.2.3.4 Rom. 8. Colos 3. Math. 3. 2. Co. 5.20 Luke 1.17 Psal 19 1. Co. 9.16 Pro. 29.18 Ro. 10.17 Rom. 8.37 Mark. 16 16 Esa. 56.10 11.12 Ephe. 1 Eph. 2.19 Eph. 2.12 Rom. 8.3.4 Tit. 2.11.11 Lu. 9.62 2. Cor. 3.5 Phil. 1.6 Ezech. 35.30.31 Ephe. 2.18 Rom. 8.15 Apoc. 7. and 14 Eph. 4.30 1. Io. 5.10 Rom. 8.33 2. 1. Pet. 2.21 Rom. 8.14 Rom. 7.19 2. Pet. 2.19 Eph. 3.16 Eph. 4.19 20. Eph. 5.4 1. Cor. 11.1 Luk. 2. Sap. 5. Esa. 40 Esa. 30.22 Esa. 64 vers 6 Psal 31.4 1. Sa. 12.22 Esa. 48.9 Eze. 20.9 Eze. 36.32 vers 4. Psa 34.19 Eph. 5.7 2. Cor. 4.13 Exo. 14.22 Dan. 3.25 Gen. 20.3 2. Sa. 12.1 Psa 22.24 Gene. 17. Iona. 1.17 Act. 12.8.9 2. Cor. 2.3 Zach. 11. 1. Cor. 11.32 Ezech. 18. Psal 103.8 Heb. 12.10 and 2.17 Esa. 5 4.7 Hebr. 12.5.6.7 Psal 39.11 Luke 13.2 Psal 2.9 Ps. 78.45 2. Sa. 10.12 1. Para. 18.19 Esa. 37.36.38 2. King. 6.14.18 2. Kin. 7.6 2. Ki. 6.25 2. Tes 2. Mat. 21.44 2. Cor. 10.4 Ioh. 14.1 Mat. 21.43 Zach. 11.7 Deu. 4.6 Gualterus in zachari Psa 2.12 Prou. 20. Ps. 78.70.71.72 Zac. 11.16 Ps. 61.2.5 1. Co. 10.4 Psa 122.1 1. Cor. 10. Ioel. 2.16 17. 1. Cor. 10.17 1. Cor. 14.23 1. Cor. 10.1 2.3.4 Rom. 15. Rom. 4. In the Sacrament two things are conceiued Cipriani de vnct Chrism Ambro. de sacra li. 4. cap. 4. Origen in Matth. August in Io. tra 20. Gen. 17.10 Exod. 12. August in Leuit. 17. Gen. 41.26 Augu. de doct chri lib. 3. Deut. 4. Exo. 12.12.13.28.29 Ro. 4.11.12 2. Corinth Rom. 12.2 Psal 119.32 To the right vvorshipfull Syr William Fitzwilliam Knight late Lorde deputie of Irelande A. Anderson the minister of Christes holy Gospell vvisheth Christ our Lorde vvith his vvhole merites CAll vppon me sayth God in the day of thy trouble and I will deliuer thee Greater troubles with lesse comfortes than in the raging Seas can not be founde as those with Dauid must confesse which occupie their busines in greate waters This daungerous Iourney as among many others ye are in the Lordes name to aduenture so vouchsafe this preparatiue to your godly hart and by and with the same in assured hope of Gods assistaunce for his Christ approche his mercy seate The hast we haue and gaping hope for Westerly winds will not permit long leysure to proyue this sodayne frame Take it Right Worshipfull as it is and accept the good will of the Geuer vse it at your neede to the Lordes prayse and your present comfort which is my harty desire And I shall dayly pray the Lorde for you and vs that we may speedely imbarke and safely arriue in Englande through Christes ayde the master of our ship At Holme Patricke in Irelande 17. October 1575. Your Worships in Dom. A. Anderson A forme of prayer for sea-men and passengers to vse in the sayling Shippe ¶ A confession of our sinnes to God. O Almighty God and most righteous we thy deare children here encompassed with these thy mighty creatures the windes the huge seas and sayling ship do acknowledge and confesse our selues and euery of vs to be miserable sinners and from our first cradles depely to haue offended thy diuine maiestie Our seuerall thoughtes be corrupted our sundry hartes and acts are polluted our synnes cannot be hid from thee We hartely confesse them O Lord els should our consciences condemne vs because our transgressions beare witnes against vs But thou art the God of our saluation and to vs thy children the beste father full of mercyes riche in compassion slowe to wrath and most ready to forgiue the penitent sinner calling vpon thee And sithe it is the worke of thy most holy spirite to mollifie the stony harted and to chaunge the fleshly hart into a spirituall soule Eze. 36. We most humbly besech thee for thy Christes sake to graunt vs thy holy spirite takē from vs our stony and gyue vs hartes of fleshe and into them power thy graces turne vs vnto thee Thy holy law imprint in our soules and giue vs to walke in thy statutes during these our naturall lyues Bow downe thine eare and heare vs and with thy fauourable countenance loke vpon vs behold our place and cause of cry Our ship is subiect to subuersion if thy holy hande direct vs not in mercifull prouidence Gyue O lord the sweete and plesant gale in thy name of vs to be desired in vehement stormes by thee called to punish and proue vs assist vs with thy strength and spirite of comfort Loke vpon our mediatour Christ and through him pitie vs and in the bowels of thy mercy conduct vs to the hauen of vs desired if it be thy will. Then shall we sing and prayse thy name and shew thy wonders in the deepe and our soules shall confesse that though the seas be mightie Psa 93.5 yet thou O God art of most might ouer them Let vs not be tempted further gracious God then that our strength in thee shall counteruaile and graunt the euent prosperous Glad our hartes with safety on shore and make vs mindfull of thy mercies Gyue vs we beseche thee true fayth firme hope and feruēt loue in thee keepe vs alwayes thine and graunt thy Christ for euer ours in whose name for our selues and all other in our condition with the rest of thy churche we call vnto thee thus O our father which arte in heauen halowed be thy name c. A psalme Psa 93.5 The waues of the sea are mighy and rage horribly but yet the Lord that dwelleth on high is mightier Psal 107. 23. They that go down to the sea in ships occupie their busines in great waters 24. These men see the workes of the Lord and his wonders in the deepe 25. For at his worde the stormy wind ariseth which lifteth vp the waues therof 26. They are caried vp to heauen downe againe to the deepe their soule melteth in them because of their trouble 27. They reele to fro and stagger like a dronken man are at their wittes ende 28. So when they cry vnto the Lorde in their trouble hee deliuereth them out of their distresse 29. For

¶ A GODLIE Sermon Preached on Newe yeeres day last before Sir William Fitzwilliam Knight late Lord deputie of Irelande Sir Iames Harrington Knight their Ladyes and Children vvith many others at Burghley in Rutlande By the minister of God Anthony Anderson Hereto is added a very profitable forme of prayer good for all such as passe the seas by the same author framed and vsed in his aduentured iourney Psal 37. Marke the vpright man and behold the iust for the ende of that man is peace ¶ Imprinted at London by Thomas Purfoote for Lucas Harison dwelling in Paules Church yarde Anno Dom. 1576. ¶ TO THE RIGHT worshipfull Sir William Fitzwilliam Knight late Lorde deputie of Ireland Sir Iames Harrington Knight Master Ihon Harrington his sonne and godly heire their vertuous Ladies Wiues and faithfull children Anthony Anderson Preacher of Christs Gospell wisheth all health in Christ our Lorde THough I vse not more thē briefe notes to write my sermons yet right worshipfull for that of some of your godly religious children I was more then earnestly entreated to set downe this Sermon my simple newyeares gift bestowed in comon amongst you I after lōger sute then there was great cause graunted and haue penned downe the same so neare as I can call to my memory the manner of my speche The order and disposition I haue exactly obserued and not omitted any note or authoritie of scripture by me then alledged And as it is vnpossible for him that penneth not his Sermons to set them downe euen so and with the selfe same words in all places as he spake them So to all my possibilitie haue I performed as neare as may be my order and speech And some thing haue I added in some place which want of tyme trained me from at that present And if any lesse ye nowe lyke then when you herde the same consider then the difference betwixt reading preaching the selfe same truth and matter Gods grace did thē assist the preachers spirit voice gesture and disposition likewise your hartes by his spirite were made to hunger this holy bread And now you haue the liuing wordes but seuered from the lyuely voyce which neuer can bring like profit to the godly hartes vnles greate thirste of the matter cause the resemblaunce of the maner howe to stande as freshe before your eyes The Lord graūt it to profit as much as my good will is then shall my small labour be fully recompensed I haue ioyned here to the forme of prayer which I gaue to your worship good Sir William at Holme Patricke in Irelande very good for all such as passe the seas as our selues haue tasted by good proofe the comforts receiued in our late ariual the lord be praised therefore Take the small gyft with the geuer all yours as he may in the Lorde to whome vvith dayly thanks for your great curtesie to me in Irelande I in my prayers commende you the rest vnfainedly Ian. 3. 1575. Your worships in the Lord Anthony Anderson The Lord is my sheperd therfore shall I want nothing He maketh me to rest in greene pasture c. RIght worshipfull and dearely beloued brethren it hath from auncient dayes bene receaued that in the first of the newe yeare eache friende doth salute his other with some token of friendship and therwith wisheth to such his friende all helth good prosperitie in god Which cyuill custome in Newyeares gyfts I do allowe in ciuill sort and hauing so many freinds here assembled haue purposed to benefite you all at once and with suche a speciall gift as of euery of you the same being worthely receaued I shall be deemed to haue satisfied my office belōging my boūden amitie to you all The gift I exhibit is a portion of Gods heauenly treasure fully sufficient from this first day of the yeare to enriche you aboue measure in Christ so that you vse the same wyth the spirituall instrument of faithfull and obedient practise continually in your hartes And this treasure forth of the Psalmists treasury I haue receaued and by the same spirit deliuer it to you in the Lord whose grace the Lorde vouchsafe to be oures in this holy actiō for his Christes sake The treasure it selfe is the .23 Psalme of the Prophet Dauid the which Psalme was made by that holy king after the receipt of his kingdome and Crowne wherto he confesseth God to be his onely helpe and promiseth to him selfe by the former receyued benefites an absolute warrant of Gods heauenly prouidence in his succeding Regiment The words are thus The Lord is my sheperd therfore shall I want nothing He maketh me to rest in greene pasture and leadeth me by the still waters And so forth to the ende of the Psalme I purpose hauing thus by prayer called vpō god to giue you the Psal by verses and of euery of them such comfortable lessons as the Lorde in mercy shall gyue me to vtter vnto your Christian hartes and with as much breuitie as may be because of the extreme cold that so we may more speedely approche the Lordes holy Table to receiue his heauenly mysteries The Lord is my sheperd c. The prophet calleth his God a shepherd because of his prouident care ouer him one of his chosen lambes which word sheperd importeth an office of continual feeding of dayly care of feruēt loue to the flocke vnder his charge of watching guiding and defending to the best safety of his sheepe All which the noble Dauid by the spirite of Gods instructiū knoweth to be in the Lord his our god therfore he giueth his maiestie this most apt tytle The Lord is my sheperd Dauid the prophet vseth the phrase which God by his holy spirite giueth to him his other Prophets in calling the Lord a sheperd as thus Thou diddest lead thy people lyke sheepe by the hand of Moses and Aaron Againe O thou sheperd of Israell herken which leadest Ioseph lyke a sheepe And when God will by his Prophet foretell in what sorte he will visite his people he promiseth his visiting Christ by this name saying He shall feede his flocke lyke a sheperde he shall gather the lambes with his arme and cary them in his bosome and shall guide them with young Lykewise in the Prophet Iere. 23.4 Ezec. 34.10.12 This sheperd Christ is Dauids sheperd and lord The Lord said vnto my Lord sit thou on my right hand vntil I make thine enemies thy footestole In which place Dauid calleth Christ his lord which is to hsm to all the chosen children of god the appointed sheperd of their soules as Christ him selfe doth witnes saying J am the good sheperd the good sheperde giueth his lyfe for his sheepe And Peter in his first epistle thus Ye were as sheepe going astray but ye are returned now vnto the sheperd and byshop of your soules In a good sheperd are to be required these things all which are most

he maketh the stormy windes to ceasse so that the waues therof are still 30. Then are they glad because they are at rest and so he bringeth them to the hauen where they would be O that men would therefore praise the Lord for his goodnes declare the wonders which he doth for the childrē of men Glory be to the Father c. The lesson Mat. 8.13 ANd when Iesus was entred with his disciples into the ship there arose a gret tempest in the sea so that the ship was couered with waues but he was a sleepe Then his Disciples awoke him saying Master saue vs we perishe And he sayde vnto them why are ye fearefull O ye of little faith Then he arose and rebuked the windes and the sea and so there was a greate calme And the men marueled saying what mā is this that both winds and sea obey him If the Sea be rough Out of the deepe O Lord we call vpon thee heare vs O God and haue mercy Psal 5. We haue sore prouoked thine anger O Lord thy wrath is waxed hot thy heuy displeasure is sore kindled against vs. But rebuke vs not in thine indignation neither chastē vs in thy displeasure Psal 6. Iudit 8. In deede we acknowledge that all our punishmēts are lesse thē our deseruings Iob. 11. But yet of thy mercy O Lord correct vs to amendement and plague vs not to our destruction Sap. 11. Psa 25. Turne thee vnto vs and haue mercy for we are desolate and in great misery Psa 79. So we that be thy people and the shepe of thy pasture shall giue thee thankes for euer and will be alwaies shewing forth thy prayse to all generations Glory be to the father c. The prayer O Lorde God the Father of comforts and God of all solace which art euer myndfull of thy mercy and carefull to keepe promise who also cōmaundest vs to call vpon thee in our troubles with hope of full release at the brinke of our deepe daungers we thy poore children craue thy hande now to helpe vs which are destitute of further ayde in earth then this our litle ship We are inuironed with these huge roring seas horribly raging and breaking in vpon vs The winds are vehement grow to increase in stormes our sinnes be heuy and Satan seeketh to sinke vs In our selues we distrust but in thy mercy we repose our earnest confidence and in the humbled state of these our soules we beseeche thee to heare vs Graunt vs thy Christ his presence in our ship Awake O blessed sauiour help vs lest we perish Thou seest our case cause of crye thou knowest our weaknes O Lord encrease our fayth Commaund the winds to cease their violence cōptroll the seas and set them quite vnder vs Keepe whole our mastes prouide safety to our sayle holde steddy our helme and be thy self the master of our ship Giue vs grace to haue like care to serue thee in seming supposed securitie as we haue desire to receiue thy helpe in this our present aduersitie Keepe vs euer to be thine and vouchsafe to stand for vs to thy Fathers iustice Conduct vs to land and safely set vs to our seuerall dwellinges for thy names sake Blesse our soules with thy spirite be mercifull to our Church and Queene her honorable Deputies Councellours Presidēts Magistrates Geue them and vs faythful harts to heare thy worde encrease thy good giftes in the teachers of the same Finally our selues our soules bodies we commit into thy mercifull handes deliuer vs at thy good pleasure for thy holy names sake we beseech thee to whom with the Father and the holy ghost be all honour and glory now and for euer Amen But if the Seas be quiet and passage pleasaunt then say thus and pray O Lorde our good God howe excellent is thy name wonderfull are thy workes but thy mercy farre aboue measure If we descende into our consciences to ponder the poyse of our sinne what may we looke for but vengeaunce beholding thee for iust These sensles Creatures the winde and seas doo dayly serue thee in silent obedience and all other inferior created things doo euer yeelde thee obsequie But we for whom all these are made and dayly are benefited by them do neuer stande vpright before thee And at this present Lord we fele the truth of thy louing promise giue to all them that trust in thee For thou hast called away the elder stormes the correction of sinne and triall of fayth and sente vnto vs this pleasant gale hauing the winde seruiseable to our humble desires these mightie waters to worke our willing effects Vouchsafe vs pardon by Christe for our iniquities and the continuaunce of this pleasaunt passing vntill we be ariued the port in thee of vs desired Keepe vs we pray thee O heauenly father from all perils in the sea and saue vs by thy mighty hande in earth Guyde vs with thy spirit in the ship of thy holy church through the raging seas of this wicked world bring vs through true fayth safely to the celestiall hauen of our inheritaunce that there with the companie of al heauenly passengers we may prayse thee euerlastingly Graunt vs and thy whole churche these our requestes for Christe our Lorde thy sonnes sake In whose name we make to thy mercy our petition thus O our father which art in heauen c. Laus Deo. Hauing safely arriued let the godly company together say or sing the 103 Psalme and then this thanksgeuing thus AL honor prayse we yeelde to thee O God our louing father who in thy great mercy notwithstāding our former liues present sins some distrusting thy louing helpe some not caring to cal vpon thee and some most desperately blaspheming thy holy name hast thus most mercifully deliuered vs and to this safety on land in thy gret mercy brought vs Now Lord again we beseech thee to defend vs that hauing safely passed the surging seas we be not through our weaknes Satans temtation drowned in the voluptuous Riuers of fleshly lustes or choked with the foggie mists of popish or carnal practises but that we may attende vpon the sonne of righteousnes Christe our Lorde and may be conducted to the hauē of our celestiall Ierusalem by the moste pleasant purifying winde the spirite of truth Which spirit as he bloweth where he lusteth so vouchsafe him euer to take vs with him during our naturall liues in the faythful and true seruing of thee and neuer leaue vs destitute of his holy aide vntil thou hast for thy christes sake crowned vs in glory To whom with thee and the same holy ghost three persons and our one only God be all honor and glory for euer and euer Amen Laus Deo per Christum

you that I do not this for your sakes No Lorde but for thine own names sake to the which only be all glory for euer It foloweth And though I should walke through the valley of the shadowe of death J will feare no euill for thou art euer with me Thy rodde and thy staffe they comfort me The lessons againe be three in especiall whiche Dauid hath taught me in this verse to deliuer you The first is though that the godly safely are set vnder the Lordes protection as the sheepe vnder the most faithfull shepheard yet are they assaulted with sundry attempts and eminent daungers Many be the troubles of the iust saith the Psalmist but the Lorde deliuereth him quite out of all And his mercy hath so determined the matter that the godly perceauing his holy hande might more firmely reste in his fatherly prouidence Secondly the godly are not freede vnder the shepheard Christ frō all kind of feare but are set amid the mightie helhounds of the earth that they should warely walke and shunne thoccasion of daunger but if they be so exalted by the Lord to haue the crosse then are they freed frō shaking terror desperat feare strengthned by his spirit they follow Christ whither soeuer he goeth So the Israelites folowed Moses in the Red sea so the children the Angel in the burning Ouen So Thapostles their master Christ to death cruell torments So Dauid without feare is redy to continue his calling though he passe through the valley of the shadow of death that is though he enter into most extreme perill The third is the boldning force which Dauid attēpteth by his shepherds croke Thy rod thy staffe they cōfort me Two things sayth Dauid driue al feare from me Thy presence for thou art with me thy careful gouernment which is always exercised to my good Note good people the god is alwais present beholdeth al our actions perceth into our thoughts he sawe Sara in Abimelecks chāber Bethsaba in Dauids bed He preuented Herodes purpose brought confusion to Saules persecution He beholdeth the oppression of the poore afflicted is present to heare their cry when they call vpon him All things are naked open to his eyes and therfore reuerently walk before him be thou vpright He fetched Ionas from his fleeing ship cast him into the whales belly He brought his preaching Peter forth of the prison fast locked in with yron gates He is present euer to helpe innocent Susanna out of distresse ready to cast the corrupted Iudges vnto their deserued death This was Dauids comforte Thou Lorde art vvith me therefore will I not feare Let the same teache vs nowe to say our God and Christ is present by his spirituall ayde and comforts in all troubles to assist vs of whom then shall we be afrayd for thogh fast closed in yron gates through the strength of our god we shall leape ouer the wall And though persecuted for his cause yet is he redy to comfort vs in all tribulation So that we are able to comfort others which be in affliction by the same cōfortes which we haue receyued our selues of god Secōdly thy carefull gouernment sayth Dauid dothe administer no small solace vnto me for thy rodde and thy staffe they comfort me Dauid elegantly dwelling in the receyued Metaphor setteth foorth Gods good gouernment by the Shepheards rodde and staffe which rodd or Shepheards crooke is vsed of a cunning heard to constrayne the declining sheepe to his former foldy-mates to vrge the wanderer to his wonted felowes and to force the slouthfull Plodders better to pase it Euen so the Lord by his holy rod and staffe of health doth scourge our wandring steppes and with his correcting hande in loue dothe ioyne vs to his Church and if slouthfully we lye aloofe he vseth sharper blowes to cōpell our speede to ioyne with others in the seruice of our god all which is to the best comfort of his chosen childe But here is named a Rod and a Staffe the one to correct vs thother to defende vs And both of these are doubled in the holy scriptures God is sayde to haue a twofolde Rod the Rod of his loue and the Rod of his anger Also a twofold staffe as in Zacharie the staffe of beautie and the staffe of Bands Of these two rods and these two staues the scripture speaketh thus First Thapostle sayth that in loue he scourgeth his people correcteth their sinnes least they should be damned with the wicked world When we are thus iudged sayth Paul speaking of gods correction for thabuse of the Eucharist wee are chastened of the Lord that we should not be condemned vvith the vvorld Behold his louing Rod. Our dayly transgressions demerite death but his dayly mercy who willeth not the death of a sinner chāgeth his sharpned sworde into a smarting rod thereby to worke in vs true repentance and humble pacience For as his hand is striking his bowels are boyling in pitie towards vs and with his spirite dothe chaunge our hartes and supporteth our falling state by hys defending staffe Wherefore despise not sayth Paule the chastening of the Lorde neyther faynt when thou arte rebuked of him For vvhome the Lorde loueth he chasteneth and he scourgeth euery sonne that he receyueth Yf yee endure chastning God offereth him selfe vnto you as vnto sonnes for vvhat sonne is he vvhome the father chastneth not Yf therfore yee be vvithout correction vvhereof all be partakers then are yee Bastardes and not Sonnes See dearely beloued the nature of our louing Father in this his rod of loue And now it should seme this doctrine to be moste liuely when as we see his heauy hande whipping our brethren with the smarting scourge of pestilence Irelande is therewith euery where infected Englande is infected and this our Countrey and Townes very neare vs Stamford and Vppingham greeuously visited Hereby we ought to be moued to repentaunce knowing that for sinne our God our shephearde chasteneth vs with rebukes that I may vse our Prophetes words in the Psalmes and with his rod maketh our gallant beautie to fade away as it were a mothe fretting a garment Euery man therefore is but vanitie But there be some of you me thinketh that whispereth in my eares thus Syr you knowe that many of vs together with your selfe God hath most louingly deliuered from this pestilent rod in Ireland yea and so that wonderful was our safetie The whole land is visited no towne knowne free in the house where we lay some dead in the shippe wherein we passed the seas one or moe gone to God and sith our departure the Knight with whom we were twentie dayes wayting Gods blessing for westerly winds hath in his owne person therwith bene scourged The which deliueraunce seemeth to cleare vs in deseruing so heuie a scourge though called a louing rodde