loue In them you dye departing hence Except your faith vnfained be And ye beleeue that I am he Who art thou then said they againe The same said he I told before And many things of you remaine To say and iudge that grieue me sore Yet true is he that sent me here Whose words to speake I do not feare They vnderstood not he spoke this To them as of the father then When ye lift vp the sonne iwis Then shall I be well knowne to men That of my selfe I do nor say But as my father makes the way For he that sent me is with me The father left me not alone My doings all directeth he Him please I and we both are one As he spake these things many were That then beleeued on him there Christ said to those that did beleeue In my word if ye do abide Ye my Disciples are I giue You knowledge of the truth beside And the same truth shall make you free That are so ioynd in league with me They said we be of Abrahms seed And neuer yet to any bound Why sayst thou then ye shall be freed As we had bene in slau'rie found I say said he who so doth sinne Sinnes seruant is it wraps him in Of freedome or the difference betweene the sonne and the seruant The seruant doth but soiourne here The sonne doth in the house abide They that the sonne shall free are cleare And shall be free at eu'ry tide I know ye are of Abrahms seede Ye seeke to kill me yet in deede And why in you can take no place My words I speake that I haue seene With my father you voyde of grace With your father to long haue beene Ye follow him the deuill I say And therefore seeke ye me to slay Abrah'm said they our father is Christ said if ye his children were Ye would his works then do not this Ye would to kill me stand in feare This did not Abraham sure I haue Told you the truth which God me gaue Your fathers works you do in deed They said of fornication We were not borne we are Gods seed And other father haue we none If God were he ye would loue me For I came forth from God said he I came not of my selfe but sent My talke why do you not perceiue Because my word with good intent Ye do not heare nor yet receiue The deu'll your father is whose lust You do and in him onely trust A murtherer he euer was And did the truth most deadly hate For lyes all other he doth passe This is your fathers dreadfull state Because I tell the truth said he Ye wickedly beleeue not me Who can of sinne rebuke me here The truth why do ye not beleeue He heareth Gods word with much feare That is of God and so doth liue Ye heare it not therefore said he Because of God none of you be The Iewes then answering said againe Samaritan deuill thou hast I haue no deuill I tell you plaine My father whom away ye cast I honour ye dishonour me Which your decay no doubt will be And I seeke not so much my prayse But there is one that seeks the same And iudgeth you and all your wayes Whose iudgement you may neuer blame The man that keeps my word I say Shall see no death nor dying day A deu'll we know thou hast in deed For Abraham is dead and gone So did the Prophets likewise speed And yet thou sayst there shall not one That keeps thy word death tast or see But from his dart thou keepst him free Then Abraham which now is dead And all the Prophets dead also Whose fame so farre abroad was spread Art thou greater then they or no Whom makest thou thy selfe to be Tell vs that we may honour thee Iesus said if I honour me My honour is nought worth at all My father doth the same said he Which you your God in vaine do call Ye know him not but him know I If I said no then should I lye I know him and his word I keepe Your father Abrahm did reioyce To see before he fell on sleepe My day and so to heare my voyce He saw it and thereof was glad Ye want the grace your father had Thou art not old yet fiftie yeare Hast thou our father Abrahm seene Though this so strange to you appeare Before he was I sure haue beene They tooke vp stones to stone him then But Iesus hid him from those men Christ gaue sight to one that was borne blind And as Christ Iesus passed by When he out of the Temple went Where then the Iewes most cruelly To stone our Sauiour Christ had ment He saw a blind man by the way That had bene blind from his birth day And his Disciples asked thus Oh master who did sinne we pray He or his parents tell it vs That he is blind what doest thou say Then Iesus said nor they nor he But that all men Gods works might see His works I must worke that sent me While it is day the night comes on I am the light while here I be When I go hence the light is gone And so he spat and made the clay Which curde his blindnesse cleane that day Then Christ said go in Siloam wash Lo I haue sent thee so to do Which when he did his eyes as glasse Were made as cleare and seeing to The neighbours that knew him before To see him see did wonder sore Some said and thought that it was he Some other thought him like the same But he confest himselfe to be Borne blind and spread Christ Iesus fame For whom said he you Iesus call Hath made me see as you see all They said how op'ned he thine eyes Mine eyes he did annoint with clay And then he said to me arise Go wash the same from thee away I washt and then receiued sight Which neuer saw before the light Where Christ was then he could not tell They brought him to the Pharisies Though Christ had done but all things well In opening the blind mans eyes They chaft that Christ should worke the clay To heale him on the Sabboth day The Pharisees askt him the same He answer'd as he did before From God said they he neuer came That makes not of the Sabboth more Some said how can he sinfull be That workes such workes as we do see Then asked they the blinde againe Tell vs of him what doest thou say He said he is a Prophet plaine That wrought this worke on me this day They scarse beleeu'd he had beene blind Till they had knowne his parents mind Of them his parents were afraid Because they had decreed so Who so confessed Christ they said Out of their Sinagogue should go Our sonne he is borne blinde he was Let him tell how this came to passe Then called they the blind againe And said to God the glory giue He is a sinner this is plaine Though he thy griefe did
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
lifted vp his eyes On his Disciples saying this Ye poore are blessed euen thrise For yours Gods kingdome surely is Ye that now hunger blessed are You shall be sure of better fare And ye that weepe yet blessed are For ye shall likewise laugh againe When men hate you take ye no care And when they do procure your paine Nor yet when they you separate Reuiling at your base estate If for the sonne of mans sake they Your names put out as euill men Reioyce ye greatly God obay And be in heart glad of it then Behold in heau'n reward haue ye The Prophets were as now ye be But woe to them that rich are here And do repose thereon their trust The day will come it shall appeare They dearly bought vile earth and dust In heau'n true treasure may be found Each thing corrupts that growes in ground Woe be to you that now are full For yee shall hunger after this If you were not exceeding dull For meate ye would not morgage blisse Woe be to you that now laugh so For you shall waile and weepe for wo. Woe be to you whom men do praise And speake well of deseruing ill When yee haue spent out all your dayes You shall bewray what was your will False Prophets were by like deuise Among your elders had in price But vnto you which heare I say Your enemies see that yee loue To them that hate you if ye may Shew how my doctrine doth you moue To do them good and blesse withall And pray for them that wish your fall To him that smiteth thee also Vpon one cheeke the other giue Who so thy cloake would take thee fro Giue him thy coate and do not grieue To purchase so a quiet life And stirre thou no debate or strife Giue eu'ry man that asketh thee And he that takes thy goods away By force or fraude how so it be Aske thou them not againe I say But vnto other men so do As thou wouldst be of them done to If that ye loue do good or lend To them that do requite the same Each sinner so doth for his friend You should do more then such for shame Be mercifull to such as need For so your father is indeed Christ healed the Centurions seruant being absent the Centurions faith After that Christ had finished His Sermon as you heard before From thence he likewise hastened For he desired more and more The worke he had in hand to end Which for our good did wholly tend As Capernaum he came to A Captaine there a Gentile borne Made for his seruant much adoe That seemed then a man forlorne He su'd by meanes his health to haue Christ with a word his life did saue The Captaines great humility And faith our Sauiour did commend In Israëll then certainly Like praise to none he did extend Of these said Christ shall many come To heau'n and haue the childrens roome Christ raised from death the widowes sonne at Naijm The next day after Christ did raise The widows sonne to life againe And all the people gaue God praise That present then did there remaine All they did spread abroad his fame That either saw or heard the same Iohn Baptists message to Christ by two of his disciples Iohn Baptist was in prison cast Herodias had obtaind the same And his disciples came in hast And told him there of Iesus fame Yet he in prison as before Would winne to Christ disciples more For when his workes to him were told That his disciples might beleeue In Iesus Christ Iohn said behold A message vnto you I giue Iohn knew him well assuredly As he oft times did testifie But that his might also perceiue That Christ the true Messiah was Of whom they should all grace receiue In whom they might all truth embrace Go ye and say Iohn sent to thee To aske if thou be euen he They went and both to Iesus came And said to him our maister sent To know if thou be sure the same Or else another that is meant Men knew as then that Christ should come How when or where that knew but some Christs answer sent backe to Iohn by his disciples Go back said Christ to Iohn againe Shew him what yee do heare and see The blinde and halt are rid of paine The leapers and the deafe go free The dead are raised vp this day The poore the gospell beare away And therewithall to them he gaue A gentle admonition His humblenesse that they might haue In reu'rent estimation Blessed said Christ shall that man be That taketh no offence by me Christs testimonie of Iohn Baptist When they were gone then Christ began To speake vnto the company What went yee out to see a man Infected with inconstancie Iohn you in wildernesse did finde Not as a reede shakt with the winde What went ye then out for to see A man cloathed in soft raiment Such men in kings courts vse to be Iohn is with meaner weed content Iohns raiment showes him to be plaine He flattred not he could not faine But what went yee out then to see A prophet I say to you more Of whom is written this is he My messenger shall go before This is Elias whom they say Should come for to prepare the way No greater among men did rise Then Iohn the Baptist verely Not any that you can deuice Yet this I say assuredly The least in heau'n goes him before And doth enioy Gods graces more Gods kingdome suffreth violence Since Iohns time to this very day The Gentiles with all diligence Without the law new cald obay The lawe and Prophets haue their end For he is come whom yee attend He that hath eares to heare may heare Marke what I say therefore amend Sith that Elyas did appeare The law and Prophets made an end Yet you remaine both deafe and blind That may your true Messiah find Christ reprooueth his auditorie This generation it is Like children that their fellowes call And say we piped haue iwis And yet yee daunced not at all So you deferre from day to day For to repent for all we say Hard was the life that Iohn did lead For meate and drinke he tooke no care He had a deuill men supposed The sonne of man they do compare With gluttons and with drunkards when He eateth meat as other men Christ vpbraideth the vnthankefull citties wherein he had taught and done so many miracles and yet they repented not Then Christ began for to vpbraid The citties that so oft had seene His workes and yet for all delaid For to repent as they had beene Cleane void of sinne or had no will To learne the good and leaue the ill Chorazin wo be vnto thee And to Bethsayda woe likewise The great works that were done by me In you yee greatly did despise If they in Tyrus had bene done It had repented long agone If Tyre and Sidon had I say
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
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
he is come he will reproue The world of sinne because men do Distrust in me whom thy should loue Of righteousnesse because I go To my father from hence away You shall see me no more I say Of iudgement shall the world likewise Reproued be by him as then Because their Prince then iudged is And righteousnesse restor'd to men For Sathans empire hath a fall And Gods annointed ruleth all I haue yet many things to say But ye cannot them now well beare The comforter will not delay To tell you all things do not feare He shall shew you mine verily And so he shall me glorifie A litle while and surely ye Sall not see me and yet againe After a while ye shall see me For I go where I must remaine But they had not as then the reach For to perceiue what Christ did teach Therefore he sayd to them againe Assuredly to you I say You shall weepe and be full of paine Yet shall the world reioyce that day Though sorow do you much annoy Your sorow shall be turn'd to ioy A woman when she trauaileth Hath sorow that her houre is nye As soone as she deliuereth Her child then she immediatly Her anguish doth not thinke vpon For ioy of him her paine is gone So now ye sorow at the heart But I will see you sure againe Though for a time I do depart Ile come to ease you of your paine And then your ioy shall be so great As you may neuer it forget Ye shall aske nothing then of me But of my father in my name And what ye aske shall giuen be Be most assured of the same In my name ye askt nothing yet Aske ye shall haue nothing shall let In Parables these things I spake But sure the time will come when I A plainer speach to you shall make And preach the father openly What in my name ye aske that he Will giue because ye loued me For from the father out I came Into the world and out againe I do depart and leaue the same And go to him thereto remaine Thou speakest now so plaine we see That no man more needs aske of thee Now we beleeue thou cam'st from God The houre is come then Iesus sayd Ye shall tast of a bitter rod And scattred be be not affrayd From me though you be fled and gone The father leaues me not alone These things I speake to comfort you And that in me you might haue peace For in the world assured now Afflictions for you do increase B◠of good comfort verily The world now ouercome haue I. The prayer of Christ vnto the father for his elect After that Christ had preached long To his Disciples of the crosse He mingled comforts all among Lest they dispayr'd for such a losse He prayed God them to protect And this his doctrine to effect And Iesus lift his eyes on hye And sayd the houre ô father deare Is come thy sonne then glorifie That so thy glorie may appeare As thou him power gau'st of all So he gaue his life eternall And this is sure eternall life That they the onely God know thee And whom thou has◠sent without strife Acknowledge Iesus Christ to be The worke thou gauest me to do I to thy glorie finish'd to Now glorifie thou me againe With thine owne selfe ô father deare As when I did with thee remaine Ere heau'n and earth did first appeare Thy name to those declared I Thou gauest me accordingly They kept thy word and know withall That all I haue are come of thee They did obay when I did call Beleeuing that thou hast sent me For those thou gauest me alway For them not for the world I pray As they and else all mine are thine And I in them am glorified So thine vndoubtedly are mine Thou hast thy sonne so fauored I in the world am now no more But they are as they were before O father keepe them in thy name Those that thou hast so giuen me As one in deed we both became That so they may for euer be I kept them safe I lost not one Saue that child of perdition I speake these things and come to thee That they in them might haue my ioy Thy word is giuen them of me Yet will the world much them annoy It hates them for both they and I Are not of this world verily Out of the world I do not pray That thou shouldst take them by and by But that from euill night and day Thou keepe and giue them victory In all their combats when they craue Thy helpe ô father let them haue They are not of this world nor I Thy word it is the truth in deed Therewith do thou them sanctifie And helpe them father at all need As to the world thou didst send me So these of me sent likewise be And for their sakes I sanctifie My selfe that through the truth they may Be sanctified assuredly For them I do not onely pray But for them also which affoord Firme faith in me Lord through thy word That they all may be one as thou O father art in me and I In thee was and am present now So they may all be verily Made one in vs that the world may Beleeue thou hast sent me this day The glory that thou gauest me I gaue them that they may be one As we are one that they might be Knowne the Disciples of thy sonne And that as me thou louest those Whom so out of this world I chose I will ô father that they be With me where euer that I am That there the glory they may see Which thou hast giuen to my name Thou louedst me ere thou began To make this world and create man The world ô father knowes not thee But I haue knowne thee and so these Haue knowne in deed that thou sentst me Thy name to them whom thou doest please I will declare thereby to moue There may in them be perfect loue The Passion of our Sauiour Iesus Christ and first of his prayers in mount Oliuet where he sweat drops of bloud and an Angell came and comforted him When Iesus these things spoken had Ouer brooke Cedron then he went With his Disciples who were sad When they perceiued what he ment Some Gethsemane do name the place This garden in mount Oliues was And Iudas which did him betray Did likewise know the place full well And knew that Christ would walke that way As then most truly it befell For thither oft to their comfort With his Christ vsed to resort When he was come into the place He chose of his Disciples three To watch and pray with him a space To whom he sayd go ye with me And so he went aside to pray And left the rest behind to stay And these were Peter Iames and Iohn That he tooke then with him apart They so with sleepe were ouer gone That they perciu'd not all his smart These on