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‘HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE’

Elizabeth Regina.

[portrait of Elizabeth I]

2. PARALIPOM. 6. ‘Domine Deus Israel, non est similis tui Deus in coelo & in ter­ra qui pacta custodis & misericordiam cum seruis tuis, qui ambulant coram te in toto corde suo.’

Prayers to be sayd in the mornyng: and first when you awake out of your sleepe, pray thus.

MOste mercifull God and father of our Sauior Jesus Christ, I moste humbly thanke thee for the sweete sleepe and comfor­table rest which thou hast ge­uen me this night past: bese­chyng thee, that lyke as thou hast now awaked my body from sleepe, so thou wouldest awake my soule from the slepe of sinne and darkenes of thys world: and that which thou [Page] hast now awaked out of slepe, thou wouldest after deathe (wherof this sleepe is but an image) restore & rayse agayne to life euerlasting. Oh graci­ous God, make my body (I hartely pray thee) such a com­panion, or rather a minister of godlines to my soule, this day and all the tyme of this present lyfe, that in the lyfe to come it may be pertaker with y e same of euerlasting happines, tho­rough Jesus Christ our Lord.

‘* Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shew light vnto thee. Eph. 5

¶ Occasions to meditate.

HEre call to mynd the great mirth and blessednes of y e euerlasting resurrectiō. Also remember to muse vpō that most clere light, that bright mornyng and new clearenes of our bodies after the long darknes which they haue bene in. All then shall be ful of vnspeakable ioyes and felicitie.

❧ When you behold the day light, pray.

O Lord God, thou most glorious & true lyght, from whēce this light of the day & sunne doth spring, and shyne vnto vs: O lyght which lightnest euery mā that commeth into this world: O [Page] light which knowst no night nor euening, but art alway a midday most cleare and fayre: without whome all is most horrible darknes, and by whō all things are most splendent: O thou wisdome of the eter­nall father of mercies, lighten my mynd that I may see those thynges onely which please thee, and may be blynded to all other thynges. Graunt me so to walke in thy wayes by the light of thy holy worde, that nothing els may be lyght and pleasaunt vnto me.

‘* Lighten mine eyes (O Lorde) that I sleepe not in death, least mine enemies say, I haue preuai­led against him. Psal. 30.

¶ Occasions to meditate.

MVse a while, how much the light and eye of the mynde and soule is better then of the body. Also how much more we ought to care for the soule that it may see wel, then for the body. Moreouer, that beastes haue bodely eyes as well as men, but men only haue eies of the mind, and that such as are godly wise.

❧ When you arise, pray.

OVr first parentes cast downe them­selues from a most excellent, high, & honorable estate, in to shame and misery, and in to the deepe sea of all wicked­nesse [Page] and mischiefe: but (oh Christ) thou puttyng forth thy hande, didst rayse them vp a­gayne. Euen so we, except we be raysed vp by thee, shall lye still for euer. O good Christ, our most gracious redemer, as thou doost mercifully rayse vp now this my body, euen so I beseeche thee rayse vp my mynde and harte to the true knowledge and loue of thee, that my conversation may be in heauen where thou art.

‘* If you be risen with Christ, thinke vpon those thinges that be aboue. Colloss. 3.

¶ Occasions to meditate.

THinke how foule the fall of A­dam was by reason of sinne: and so of euery one of vs from the height of gods grace. Againe, thinke vppon the inestimable benefite of Christ, by whose helpe we daily arise agayne from our fallynges.

❧ When you are made redy, to begin the day withall, pray.

O Almighty God & most mercifull father, thou knowest & hast taught vs also somethyng to knowe, that the weaknes of man and woman is great, & that with­out thy grace they can neither [Page] do nor thinke any good thing. Haue mercy vpon me, I hūbly beseche thee, thy most weake, fraile and vnworthy chylde. Lighten my mynde that I may with pleasure looke vpon good thinges onely. Enflame my hart with the loue therof, that I may carefully couete them, and at the last by thy gracious cōducting, may hap­pely attayne them, thorough Jesus Christ our Lorde. I di­strustyng altogether myne owne weakenes, commende and offer my selfe both soule and body into thy handes.

‘* Thy louyng spirite leade me forth into the lande of righte­ousnes. Psal. 143.

❧ Cogitations meete to begin the day withall.

THinke first that man consisteth of soule & body, and that the soule is from heauen heauenly, firme and immortall: but the body is from the earth earthly, fraile and mortall.

Agayne, thinke that though by reason of sinne wherein you are con­ceyued and borne, the partes of the soule which do vnderstand and desire, be so corrupte that without speciall grace to both partes you can neither know nor loue any good thyng in gods sight, much lesse then, do that is good: yet this notwithstandyng, thynke that you are regenerate by Christes resurrection (which your [Page] baptisme requireth you to beleue) and therefore to do also some good in the sight of God through Christ: for whose sake our poore doynges are ac­cepted for good, the euill and infirmi­tie cleauing therunto, not beyng im­puted through faith.

Thinke that by fayth, which is gods séede (for they which beleue are of God and made Gods children) ge­uen to those that be ordeyned to eter­nall life: thinke (I say) that by fayth you receiue more and more the spirit of sanctification, through the vse of Gods worde and sacramentes, and earnest prayer, to illuminate your minde, vnderstanding, iudgement, and reason, and to bow, forme, frame and inflame your affections with loue and power to do that that good is, and therfore vse you the means aforesaid accordingly.

[Page] Thinke, that by this spirite you are thorough faith coupled to Christ as a liuely member, and so to God, and as it were, made one with hym: and by loue, which springeth out of this faith you are made one also with all that be of God, and so you haue fellowship with God and all good men that euer were or shall be, in all the good that God and all his saintes haue or shall haue. Thinke, that as by faith and loue through the spirite of God you are now entred into this communion (the blessednes whereof no tounge can expresse) so after thys lyfe you shall first in soule, and in the last day in body also, enioy for euer the same societie most perfectly which now is but begonne in you.

Thinke, in consideration of your heauenly estate, how your body is the temple of the holy ghost, your mēbers [Page] of Christ, the whole worlde and all thinges therein are your owne. Therfore say vnto your soule: O my soule, arise, follow God, contemne this world, purpose well and pursue it, long for the Lordes commyng, be ready and watch that he come not v­pon thée vnwares. And forsomuch as you must liue to Gods pleasure, sée the vocation and state of your life wherunto God hath called you, and pray to god for grace, knowlege, and habilitie to take the most profitable thinges in hand, well to begin, better to go on, and best of all to ende the same to Gods glory and the profite of others, and thinke that tyme lost wherin you speake not or do not, or at tho least thinke not something to Gods glory and the commoditie of his children.

❧ At the sunne going downe, pray.

HOw vnhappy are they (O Lorde) on whō thy Sunne goeth downe and ge­ueth no lyght, I meane thy grace which is always cleare as the midday. Darke night vnto thē is the midday which depart from thee. In thee is neuer night, but alwayes day light most cleare. This corpo­rall Sunne hath his courses, now vp, now down: but thou deare Lord, if we loue thee, art alwayes one. O that thys blocke and veile of sinne were taken away frō me, that there [Page] might be alwayes cleare day in my mynde.

¶ Occasion to meditate.

THinke, that as we are not sory when the sunne goeth downe, be­cause we know it will rise agayne: euen so we should not sorrow for death, wherwith the soule and body do parte asunder: for they shall eft­sones returne and come together a­gayne in most glorious wise.

❧ When the candels be light, pray.

MOst thicke and darke cloudes do couer our myndes, excepte thy light (O Lord) do driue them [Page] away. Thy Sunne (O most wise worker) is as it were a firebrand to this worlde. Thy wisdome whereby light com­meth to both soule and body, is a firebrand to the spirituall world. After day when the night commeth, thou hast ge­uen for the remedy of darknes a candell. After sinne, for the remedy of ignoraunce, thou hast geuen thy doctrine which thy deare sonne hath brought vnto vs. O thou that art the author and maister of al truth, and art the true lyght, make vs so to see, that the dimnes of our myndes may be driuen cleane away.

‘* Thy worde is a lanterne to my feete & a light vnto my pathes.’ Psal. 4. ‘* Lift thou vp the light of thy countenaunce vpon vs and send ioy and gladnes into our hartes.’

¶ Occasions to meditate.

THinke that the knowledge which God geueth vnto vs by the candel light (wherby we see those thyngs in this night of our bodies which are expedient for vs) should make vs to wishe much more for this spirituall light of our soules, this doctrine of our saluation, and when we gette it, the more to esteme it, and diligently to embrace it: Agayne, that as all would be horrour without candell light, so there is nothing but meere [Page] confusion where Gods worde taketh not place.

❧ When you make your selfe vnready, pray.

THys our lyfe and weake knit body by reason of sinne, by little and little shall be dissolued, and so shall be restored to the earth from whence it was ta­ken: then will be an ende of this vanitie which by our fol­ly we haue wrought to our selues. O most meke father, so do thou vntie & loose me (for y u art he that hast knit these my weak members together) that [Page] I may perceiue my selfe to be loosed and dissolued, & so may remember both of whome I was made, and also whether I must go, least I be had vn­prouided vnto thy tribunall seate.

‘* Put of the olde man with hys lustes and concupiscences.’ Col. 3 Ephe. 4.

¶ Occasion to meditate.

THinke that as we do willingly put of our garmentes because we shall receiue them againe when the night is past: so we should not vn­willingly forsake our bodies when God by death shal call vs, because we shall receyue them againe in the re­surrection of the iust.

❧ When you enter into your bed, pray.

THe day now ended, men geue thēselues to rest in the nyght, and so this lyfe fini­shed, we shall rest in death. No­thing is more like this life thē euery day: nothing more lyke death thē slepe, nothyng more like to our graue then our bed. O Lord our keper and defen­der, graunt that I now laying me downe to rest, beyng vna­ble to keepe my selfe, may be preserued from the crafts and assaultes of the wicked ene­my. And graunt further, that when I haue runne the race [Page] of this lyfe, thou wouldest of thy mercy call me vnto thee, that I may lyue and watche with thee for euermore. And now gracious God, geue me to take my rest in thee: and bring to passe that thy good­nes may be euen in sleepe be­fore mine eyes, that slepyng I be not absent from thee, but may haue my dreams to draw me vnto thee, & so both soule and body may be kept pure and holy for euer.

‘* I will lay me downe in peace and take my rest.’ Psal. 4.

❧ An other prayer.

O Lord Jesus Christ, my watchman and keper, take me to thy care: graunt that my body slepyng, my minde may watch in thee, and be made mery by some sight of that celestiall and hea­uenly life, wherin thou art the king & prince, together with the father and the holy ghost, where the Aungels and holy spirits be most happy citizens. Oh purify my soule, keepe cleane my body, that in both I may please thee sleping & wa­king, for euer, Amen.

¶ Occasion to meditate.

THinke, that as this troublesome day is now past and night come, and so rest, quietnes, and pleasant sléepe, which maketh most excellent princes, and poore wretches alike: e­uen so after the tumultes, troubles, temptations and tempestes of thys life, they that beleue in Christ, haue prepared for them an hauen and rest most pleasant and ioyfull. As you are not afraid to enter into your bedde, and to dispose your selfe to sléepe, so be not afraid to die, but rather chere­fully prepare your selfe therunto.

Thinke that now you are néerer your ende by one dayes iourney, then you were in the morning.

❧ A prayer to God the Father, for the true know­ledge of the mystery of our redemption in Christ.

O Almighty God & Fa­ther of our Lorde Je­sus Christ, and by him also our father, the father of all mercy and God of all con­solation, haue mercy vpon vs and heare our prayers.

We most humbly beseche thee, for thy deare sonne Jesus Christes sake, for his merites and cruell death which he suf­fred, to deliuer vs from eter­nall death and the power of darknes: send into our hartes thy spirite of truth, to worke [Page] in vs a true, liuely, and stedfast faith, that the cleare light and brightnes of thy gospell, the glory of Christ, may shine vnto vs, & lighten our mindes, that we may learne & vnderstand the wonderfull & vnspeakable riches of y e mystery of our re­demption in Christ, and by Christ. O father of glory, geue vnto vs the spirite of wisdom, and bryng vs into the true knowledge of this thy beloued sonne Jesus Christ, and the knowledge of thy selfe. Open and lighten the eyes of our myndes and vnderstandyng that we may know what the hope is whereunto thou hast called vs, and how riche the [Page] glory of thine enheritance is vpon thy saintes, and the exce­dyng greatnes of thy power towards vs: y t by true faith, by vnderstanding and know­ledge of thine eternal wisdom (which is Jesus Christ) we may be in dede as we are cal­led, true christians and vnfey­ned professoures of thy holy name, to worship thee in spi­rite and truth, and to set forth the glory of thy grace geuen vnto vs in Christ Jesus our Lord, Amen.

O deare Father, wryte in our hartes loue of thy law, hate to all sinne, thankfulnes of hart, and continuall heat of [Page] thy holy spirite, for thy sonne Jesus christes sake. To whom with thee and thy holy spirit, be all honour, maiestie, glory, thankes, rule, empire, and do­minion, for euermore.

❧ A forme of thanks-geuing for our redemption, and prayer for strength and en­crease of faith.

ETernal praise & thanks bee geuen vnto thee deare God & father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which hast blessed vs with all spiri­tuall blessinges in heauenly thinges by Christ, in that thou hast chosen vs in hym before [Page] the foundation of the worlde was layd, that we should be wythout blame before thee through him: by whome we haue redemption through hys bloud, euen the forgeuenes of our sinnes: In whom, after we heard the worde of truth, the Gospell of our saluation, wherein we beleued, we were sealed with the holy spirite of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance: which spi­rite hath and doth beare wit­nes vnto our spirites, that we are thy children, and therefore cryeth in our hartes, Abba, Fa­ther. And thus most gracious father, when thou hast once geuen the earnest peny of our [Page] saluatiō into our hartes, thou doost not repent of thy gift & calling, neither wilt thou at any time, breake thy couenant of grace and mercy in Christ thy sonnes merites, confirmed in vs by that seale and loue token. For what though we be weake in our beliefe? shall our vnbeliefe make thy promise of no effect? No, thou wilt al­wayes be found true, but all men be liers. And yet Lorde, thou doost most graciously be­hold and accept, be it neuer so little a sparke of fayth. We say therefore & cry vnto thee with one that wept and said: I be­leue Lord, helpe my vnbeliefe. Yea that little, be it neuer so [Page] little, is thy mere gift also. The which as thou hast begon: so (most merciful Lord) encrease the same more and more, to the peace and comfort of our con­science, and the glory of thy name, through Jesus Christ.

Amen.

❧ A meditation for the exercise of true mortification.

HE that wil be ready in waighty matters to deny hys owne will, and to be obe­dient to the will of God, the same had neede to accustome himselfe to deny his desires in matters of lesse waight, and [Page] to exercise y e mortificatiō of his owne wil in trifles. For if that our affections by this daily custome be not (as it were) halfe slaine, surely, surely, whē the plunge shall come, we shall finde the more to do. If we cannot watch with Christ one houre, as he sayth to Peter, we vndoutedly can much lesse go to death with him. Wher­fore, that in great temptatiōs we may be ready to say wyth Christ: Not my wyll but thyne be done, (in that this com­monly commeth not to passe, but where the rootes of our lustes, by thy grace deare fa­ther, are almost rotten and rooted out by a daily deniall [Page] of that they desire) I humbly beseche thee for Christes sake to helpe meherein. First par­don me my cherishing and (as it were) watering of mine af­fectiōs, obeying them in their deuises and superfluous de­sires: wherethrough, in that they haue taken deepe roote, and are to liuely in me, I se­condly do beseche thee to pull them vp by the rootes out of my hart, and so henceforthe to order me, that I may continu­ally accustome my self to wea­ken the principall roote, that they by rootes and braunches may loose all their power. Graunt me (I beseche thee) that thy grace may daily mor­tify [Page] my concupiscence of plea­sure in thinges, y t is, of wealth, riches, glory, liberty, fauour of mē, meates, drinkes, apparel, ease, yea and life it selfe, that the horror and impaciency of more greuous things, may be weakened, and I made more pacient in aduersitie. Wher­unto I further desire and pray thy goodnes (dere father) that thou wilt adde this: namely, that I may for euer, become obedient and ready to do thy good will in all things, harte­ly and willingly to serue thee, and do whatsoeuer may pleàse thee. For doubtles, although we accustome our selues in the pleasaunt thinges of this life, [Page] to a mortification and deniall of our selues, yet we shal finde enough to do when more bit­ter and weighty crosses come. For if thy sonne our Sauiour (euer wont to obey thy good will) prayed so hartely and of­ten: Not my will but thy will be done, wherby he declareth him selfe to be very man, how can it be but we, whose nature is corrupt, not only in natiuitie, but in the rest of our whole life also, shal find both our handes full in great and greuous temtations wholy to resigne our selues vnto thee. Graunt ther­fore (deare father) for thy chri­stes sake, I most hartely be­seche thee, thy grace and holy [Page] spirite, to be effectuall in me, that daily I may accustome my selfe to deny my will in more easy and pleasant things of this lyfe, that when neede shal be, I may come vnto thee with a resigned will, alwayes stedfastly expecting thy mer­cy, and in the meane season, cōtinually obeying thee with readines and willïngnes, do­ing whatsoeuer may most please thee, through Christ our lord, which liueth with thee &c

¶ A meditation of the comming of Christ to iudgement, and of the rewarde both of the faithful & vnfaithful.

[Page] OH Lord Jesus Christ, the sonne of the euerli­uing God, by whō all thinges were made, are ruled and gouerned, as of thy loue, for our redemption thou didst not disdaine to be our media­tour, and to take vppon thee our nature in the wombe of a virgine, purely and without sinne, by the operation of the holy spirite, that both y u migh­test in thine owne person wō ­derfully beautifie and exalte our nature, and worke y e same in vs also, first abolishing the giltines of sinne by remission, then sinne it selfe by death, and last of all, death by raysing vp againe these our bodies, that [Page] they may be like vnto thyne owne glorious and immortall body, according to the power wherewith thou art able to subiect all thinges vnto thee: as (I say) of thy loue for our redemption thou becamest man and that most poore and afflic­ted vpon earth by the space of xxxiii. yeres at y e least, in most humilitie, and payedst y e price of our raunsome by thy most bitter death and passion (for the which I most hartely geue thankes to thee) so of the same thy loue towardes vs, in thy good time thou wilt come a­gaine in the cloudes of heauen with power and great glory, with flaming fire, with thou­sandes [Page] of saintes, with angels of thy power, with a mighty cry, shoute of an Archangell, and blast of a trumpe, sodenly as a lightning which shineth from the East, &c. when men thinke least, euen as a thiefe in the night when mē be a slepe, thou wilt so come (I say) thus sodainly in the twincklyng of an eie, all men that euer haue bene, be and shall be, with wo­men and children, appearyng before thy tribunall iudgemēt seat, to render an accompt of all thinges which they haue thought, spoken, and done a­gainst thy law, openly and be­fore all Aungels, saintes, and Deuils, and so to receiue y e iust [Page] reward of thy vengeaunce, if that they haue not repented & obeyed the gospell, and so de­part from thee to the Deuill & his angels and all the wicked which euer haue bene, be, or shall be, into hell fire, which is vnquencheable, and of paynes intolerable, easeles, endeles, hopeles, euen from the feare of thy glorious & mighty power.

But if they haue repented and beleued thy gospel: if they be found watching with their lampes & oyle in their handes: if they be found ready appare­led with the wedding garmēt of innocency: if they haue not hardened their hartes, & hour­ded vp the treasure of thy ven­geaunce [Page] in the day of wrath to be reuealed, but haue vsed the tyme of grace, the accepta­ble tyme, the time of saluatiō, that is, the time of this lyfe, in the which thou stretchest out thy hande, and spreadest thine armes, calling and crying vn­to vs, to come vnto thee which art meeke in hart and lowly, for thou wilt ease all that la­bour and are heauy loden: if they haue visited the sicke and prisoners, comforted the com­fortlesse, fedde the hungry, clothed the naked, lodged the harbourles, if they haue not loden their hartes with glotony, and surfeting, and [Page] carefulnes of this life: if they haue not digged and hid their talent in the ground, doing no good therwith, but haue bene faithfull to occupy thy gifts to thy glory, and here washed their garmentes in thy bloud by harty repentance: then shal thy aungels gather them together, not as the wicked which shall be collected as fagots, & cast into the fire, but as y e good wheate that is gathered into thy barne: then shall they be caught vp to meete thee in the clouds: then shall their corrup­tible body put on incorrupti­on: then shall they be indued with immortality and glory: then shall they be with thee, [Page] and goe whether thou goest: then shal they heare, Come bles­sed of my Father, possesse the king­dome prepared for you from the be­ginning, &c. then shall they be set on seates of maiestie iud­ging the whole worlde: then shall they raigne with thee for euer: then shall God be all in all with them and to them: thē shal they enter and enherite y e heauenly Jerusalem and the glorious restfull land of Canaan, where is alwayes day and neuer night, where is no maner of weping, teares, infirmitie, hunger, colde, sickenes, enuy, malice, nor sinne: but al­wayes ioy w tout sorow, mirth without measure, pleasure w t ­out [Page] paine, heauenly harmony, most pleasant melody, saying, and singing: holy, holy, Lorde God of hostes. &c. Finally the eye hath not seene, the eare hath not heard, neither hath it entred into the harte of man, that they shall then enherite and most surely enioy, althogh here they be tormented, priso­ned, burned, sollicited of Sa­than, tempted of the flesh, and entangled with the worlde, wherethrough they are enfor­ced to cry, Thy kingdome come: Come Lord Iesu, &c. How amia­ble are thy tabernacles? Lyke as the harte desireth the water brookes, &c. Now let thy seruaunt departe [Page] in peace: I desire to be dissolued and to be with Christ: We mourne in our selues, wayting for the deliue­raunce of our bodies, &c. Oh gra­cious Lord, when shall I find such mercy with thee, that I may repent, beleue, hope and looke for these thinges, with the full fruition of those hea­uenly ioyes which thou hast prepared for all thē that feare thee, and so rest with thee for euermore.

❧ A meditation con­cerning the lyfe euerlastyng, the place where it is, and the incomparable ioyes therof.

[Page] THat there is an enerla­sting life, none wil de­ny but such as wil de­ny God. For if he be true & iust (which he must needes be, or els he is not God) then can there not be but an eternall life. That he hath both spoken it and promised it, in Math. 25. 1. Cor. 16. Hebr. 4. 11. 13. 1. Petr. 1. it plainly appeareth, and els where in very many places. So that to deny an euerla­sting lyfe, is to deny God, to deny Christ and all that euer he did, also to deny all pietie & religion, to condemne of foo­lishnes all good men, martyrs, confessors, Euangelistes, Pro­phetes, Patriarckes. Finally [Page] the deniall of eternal life is no thing els, but a deniall of the immortalitie of the soule, and so a plaine making of man no thing better then beastes. If it be so, let vs then eate and drinke, for to morow we shall die. Lord preserue vs frō this Saduceal and Epicureall im­pietie, and graunt vs for thy mercies sake (deare God) that we may be assuredly perswa­ded, that there is in deede an eternall life and blisse wyth thee, for them that put their trust in thee, amongst whome accompt me for thy mercies sake.

Agayne, this eternall lyfe, and the place appoynted for [Page] them that be thy seruauntes, all men do graunt to be wyth thee: Albeit they do not think that because thou art euery where, therfore eternall life is euery where: For they by thy worde do know, that in as much as no man can see thee and liue, this eternall lyfe and thy blessed presence is most pleasant and had in fruition, after in an other world, wher unto by corporall death they do depart and are translated to a place aboue them, where thou dwellest in a light wher­vnto no man can approche. A­brahams bosome (they read) was aboue, as the place for the wicked, was a lowe and [Page] beneath. Helias was caught vp into heauen, and thy sonne our deare sauiour prayed, that where he is, those also might be, which thou hadst geuē him and might se his glory. Now, he (deare father) we learne by thy spirite, was ascended and taken vp in his very body into heauen, whether Steuen lo­ked vp and sawe thy Christ standing on thy right hand: to whom he prayed: Oh Lorde Ie­su receiue my spirite. Graunt I beseche thee, gracious god and father, y t I may haue a cleane hart, more & more to see thee, and so in spirite to see and loke often vpō this place: whether bring me at the length in body [Page] also, I humbly pray thee.

Now, what a thyng this e­uerlasting life is, no man is a­ble to conceiue, much lesse able to vtter: For the peace of god which is eternall life, passeth all vnderstanding. The eye hath not seene, the eare hath not heard, neither can mans harte conceiue those thinges, which thou (deare God) hast prepared for them that loue thee. Whatsoeuer therfore can be spoken or imagined of thy kingdom, of the clearenes, ioy and felicitie of the same, is no­thyng in comparison: as we may see by y e Prophets, which (because they could not other­wise) vnder corporall things, [Page] haue shadowed the same: So that the confidence of eternall life, what a thing it is, can in no wise be told. Howbeit some what we may be brought into some sight of it, by earthly thinges, to thinke on this sort. If God hath geuē here so ma­ny thinges in a strange place, how many are the great good thinges that be at home? If in a prison are so many mercies, how many are they in the pa­lace? If the wicked haue so many benefites, what is the store prepared for thy seruāts, O Lord? If thy children finde such comfortes in the day of teares and mournyng, what shall they finde in the day of y e [Page] mariage? If with beastes men beyng, haue the vse of so innu­merable blessings, oh how many are the blessinges whiche they shall enioy with thy An­gels, and with thee thy selfe (O dere God) when they shal see thee, and haue the fruition of thee, in whome is fulnes without lothing of all good & faire thinges: so that nothyng can be more desired, and that for euermore?

This thy children do not so see as they now beleue it: I say that euen in their bodies they shal see it for euer, as Job sayd. They heleue that they shall see thee, and their owne eyes beholde thee, when these [Page] our corporall eyes, our bodies beyng raised, shall do their du­ties. Such a knowledge of thee they beleue to haue, as shall not be onely intellectuall and by faith, as now it is: but euen a full sight and fruition, yea a comunction and felow­ship with thee. Now they see but in a glasse, euen in a darke speaking: but thē they shal see face to face. For faith, though it be the substaunce of thinges hoped for, and a certain darke sight of thee: yet it may not be compared to the rewarde of faith, & glorious sight which we shall see in the life to come, when fayth & hope shall cease.

Now, thy children know [Page] y t they be thy children, though it yet appeare not what they shall be. We know (say they) that whē our Christ God and man shall appeare, then shall we be lyke vnto hym: for we shall see him euen as he is. Oh great prerogatiue, to see Christ as he is. Which is not to be considered so much for the mā ­hoode, as for the Godhead it self: as Paule doth also write, that when all thinges are sub­iect vnto the sonne, then shall he be subiect vnto thee (deare Father) also that God may be all in all. And therfore Christ our sauiour praied for vs, that we might know thee the one­ly true God. Not y t our Christ [Page] thy sonne is not with thee, the true, coequal, and substanciall god, but that we might know how that after the iudgement such a mystery of hys media­tourship shall not be in heauē, as is now in earth. Then thou blessed trinitie, God the Fa­ther, God the sonne, and God the holy ghost shalt be all in all: thou shalt be the end of our desires, thou shalt be loked v­pon without ende, thou shalt be loued without lothyng, thou shalt bee praysed with­out wearinesse. Althoughe lothsomues be wont to folow fulnes, yet our fulnes in the contemplatiō of thy pleasures shall bring with it no kinde at [Page] all of lothsomnes. Sacietie of ioyes shall be in the beholding of thee. Pleasures are on thy right hand for euer. We shalbe satiffied when we arise after thyne image: I meane in the resurrection. Oh deare father, shew thy self vnto vs, and we aske no more. Oh graunt vs with thy Saintes in euerla­sting lyfe, to prayse wyth per­petual prayses, thy holy name. Happy then and happy again wer we, if that day wer come that we myght sing wyth thy aungels, elders, and innume­rable thousandes, a new song & say, thou Christ Jesu which wast slayne, art worthy to re­ceyue power, and riches: and [Page] wisdome, and strength, & ho­nour, and glory, and blessyng. In thys blessed lyfe all kynde of maladies, griefes, sorrowes and euils be farre away, and all ful of all kinde of mirth, ioy & pleasure. Oh that we might see now a litle with S. John that holy Citie, new Jerusalē, descending frō heauen, prepa­red of god as a bride trimmed for her husbande. Oh that we might now somethyng heare the great voyce speakyng out of the throne, behold the taber­nacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be hys people, and he shalbe vnto them their god: he will wipe away all teares [Page] from their eies, and death shal be no more, nor wepyng, nor crying, nor sorrow: for the for­mer thinges are gone.

¶ An other meditation of the blessed state and feli­citie of the life to come.

THis body is but a pri­son wherein the soule is kept, and that vere­ly, not beautifull nor bright: but most foule and darke, dis­quiet, fraile, and filled vp with much vermine and venemous vipers (I meane it cōcerning our affections) standing in an ayre most vnwholesome, and prospect most lothsome, if a [Page] man consider the excrementes of it, by the eyes, nose, mouth, eares, hands, feete, and all the other partes. So that no Bo­cardo, no Little ease, no Dun­geon, no Bishops prison, no gatehouse, no sincke, no pit, may be cōpared in any point, to be so euill a prison for the bo­dy, as the body is for and of the soule: wherethrough the children of God haue bene oc­casioned to cry & lament their long being in it. Oh saith Da­uid, how long shall I lye in this prison? Oh wretch that I am (sayth Paule) who shall deliuer me out of this body of sinne? which is an heauie bur­den vnto the soule, as the wise [Page] man sayth. And therefore the godly cry, now let thy seruant depart in peace. Oh that I were dissolued and had put of this earthly and fraile taber­nacle.

Take me vnto thee, and bring my soule out of thys pri­son, that it may geue thankes vnto thee O Lord. For so long as we be in thys body, we can not see the Lord: yea it is as an heauy habitation, and de­presseth downe sore the spirite fro the familiaritie which it els should haue with God. This world & life is an exile, a vale of misery, a wildernes, of it self being voide of all vertues and necessaryes for eternall life, [Page] full of ennemies, sorrowes, sighings, sobbings, gronings, miseries, &c: In daunger to hūger, cold, heate, thirst, sores, sicknes, tentations, trouble, death, and innumerable cala­mities, being momentanye, short, vnstable, and nothing but vaine, and therfore is cō ­pared to a warfare, a womās trauaile, a shadow, a smoke, a vapour, a worde, a storme, a tempest, in the which Gods people feele great molestati­ons, greefes, & troubles, now of Sathan him selfe, now of the world, now of their owne flesh, and that so wonderfully, diuersly, daungerously, & con­trarily, that they are enforced [Page] to cry: Oh Lorde, when shall we come and appeare before thee? when shall this misery end? when shall we be deliue­red out of this vale of miserye? out of thys wildernes? out of thys continuall affliction and most perilousseas? But where thou art (Lorde and deare fa­ther of mercy) there is not on­ly no prison, no dolours, no so­row, no sighinges, no teares, no sicknes, no hūger, no heate, no colde, no paine, no temtati­ons, no displeasure, no malice, no pride, no vncleannes, no cō ­tention, no tormentes, no hor­rour, no sin, no filth, no stinch, no dearth, no death, no wee­ping, no teares, no misery, nor [Page] mischiefe: there is (I say) not onely no such thing, or any e­euill, noysome, or displeasaunt thing: but all libertie, all light, all pleasauntnes, all ioy, reioy­sing, mirth, pleasure, pastime, health, wealth, riches, glory, power, treasure, honour, tri­umph, comfort, solace, loue, v­nitie, peace, concord, wisdome, vertue, melody, meekenes, feli­citie, beatitude, and all that e­uer can bee wished or desired, in most securitie, eternitie, and perpetuitie y t may be thought, not onely of man, but of An­gels and Archangels, yea a­boue all thoughtes. The eye hath not seene the like, y e eare hath not heard it, nor no hart [Page] is able to conceaue in any poynt, any part of the blisfull beatitude which is with thee most deare God and Father, most deare Lorde and Saui­our, most gratious good God and comforter. Where thou art, O blessed God, the Arch­aungels, Aungels, Thrones, powers, dominations, Cheru­bins, Ceraphins, Patriarkes, Prophets, Apostles, Mar­tyrs, Virgins, Confessors, and righteous spirites, cease not to sing, night and day: Holy, Ho­ly, Holy, Lorde God of hostes: honor, maiestie, glory, power, empire and dominion be vnto thee, oh God the creator, oh Lord Jesu the redemer, oh [Page] holy spirite the comforter. In recordation of thys, Oh how thy childrē reioyce? how con­temne they y e pleasures of thys worlde? how litle esteme they any corporall greefe or shame? how desire they to bee with thee? How amiable are thy ta­bernacles, Oh Lorde God of hostes, say they: my soule hath a desire to enter into y e courtes of the Lorde: my hart and my soule reioyceth in the lyuyng God. Blessed are they y t dwell in thy house, they that may al­wayes be praysing thee. For one day in thy courtes is bet­ter then a thousand els where. I had rather be a doore keper in the house of my God, then [Page] to dwell in the tentes of vn­godlines: for the Lord God is a light & defence. And againe: lyke as the Hart desireth the water brookes: so longeth my soule after thee, Oh God: my soule is a thyrst for God, yea e­uen for the liuing God. When shall I come to appeare before the presence of God? My soule thirsteth for thee: my flesh also longeth after thee in a barren and dry land, where no water is. They (thy childrē I meane O Lord) desire the day of that their redemption: stil they cry: let thy kingdō come: they cry: Come Lord Jesu: they lift vp their heades lookyng for thy appearing, Oh Lorde, which [Page] will make their vile body lyke to thine owne glorious & im­mortall body: for when thou shalt appeare, they shall be like vnto thee. Thy Aungels will gather them together, & they shall meete thee in y e cloudes, and bee alwayes with thee. They shall heare thys ioyfull voyce: Come ye blessed of my fa­ther, possesse the kingdome prepared for you from the beginning. Then shall they be like to thy Aun­gells. Then shall they be like vnto the Sunne in thy kyng­dome. Then shall they haue crownes of glory, and be en­dued with white garmentes of innocēcie and righteousnes, and Palmes of victory in their [Page] handes. Oh happy is he that may but see that immortall and incorruptible inheritance, which they shall enioy for e­uermore, Amen.

¶ A Meditation of the presence of God.

THere is nothyng that maketh more to true godlines of life, then the perswasion of thy presēce (deare father) and that nothyng is hyd from thee, but all to thee is open and naked, euē the very thoughtes, which one day thou wilt reueale and open, either to our praise or pu­nishment in thys life: as thou [Page] diddest Dauids faultes which he dyd secretly. 2. Reg. 12. or in the lyfe to come. Math. 25. for nothyng is so hid that shall not be reuealed. Therfore doth the Prophet say: Woe to thē that keepe secrete their thoughtes to hide theyr counsell from the Lorde, and do their workes in darknes, saying who seeth vs? Graunt to me therefore (deare God) mercy for all my sinnes, especially, my hid and close sinnes. Enter not into iudge­ment with me, I humbly be­sech thee. Geue me to beleue truely in thy Christ, that I ne­uer come into iudgement for thē: that with Dauid I might so reueale them and confesse [Page] them vnto thee, y t thou woul­dest couer thē. And graunt fur­ther, y t hence forth I alwayes thinke myself cōtinually cōuer saunt before thee, so that if I do well, I passe not of the pub­lishing of it, as hypocrites doe: If I do or thinke any euill, I may forthwith know that the same shall not alwayes be hid from men. Graunt me, that I may alwayes haue in minde that day wherin hyd workes of darknes shall be illumined, and also that sentence of thy sonne, that nothing is so secret which shall not bee reuealed. So in trouble and wrong I shall finde comfort, and other­wise be kept through thy grace [Page] frō euil: which do thou worke I humbly besech thee, for Christes sake,

Amen.

❧ A Meditation of death, and the commodities it bringeth.

WHat other thing do we dayly in thys present life, then heape sinne vppon sinne, and hourde vp trespasse vpon trespasse? so that thys day is worse alwayes then yesterday, by encreasing as dayes, so sinnes, and there­fore thy indignation, good Lorde, agaynst vs: but when we shall be let goe out of the prison of thys body, and so ta­ken into thy blessed company, [Page] then shall we be in most safety of immortalitie and saluation, thē shall come vnto vs no sick­nes, no nede, no paine, no kind of euill to soule or body: but what soeuer good we cā wish, that shall we haue, and what soeuer we loth, shall be farre from vs. O deare father, that we had fayth, to beholde these thinges accordingly. Oh that our hartes were perswaded therof, and our affections en­flamed with y e desire of them. Then should we liue in long­ing for that which now we most loth. O helpe vs, and graūt that we being ignorant of thinges to come, and of the tyme of our death, which to [Page] thee is certain, may so liue and finishe our iourney here, that we may be ready and then de­part, when our departing may make most to thy glory & our comfort through Christ.

What is thys lyfe but a smoke, a vapour, a shadow, a warfare, a bubble of water, a worde, grasse, a flower? That we shall die it is most cer­taine: but the time, no mā can tell when. The longer in this life we do remaine, the more wee synne, which will turne to our further paine. By co­gitation of death, our mindes be often, in a maner, oppres­sed with darkenes, because we do but remember the nyght of [Page] the body, forgetting the light of the mynde, and of the resur­rection. Hereto remember the good thinges that after thys life shall ensue, in certaintie of faith, without wauering, and so shall the passage of death be more desired. It is like a say­ling ouer the sea to your home and countrey: it is like a me­dicine or purgation to y e health of soule and body: it is the best Phisicion: it is lyke a womās trauaile. For as the chylde be­yng deliuered, commeth into a more large place then the wombe wherin it did lye be­fore, so the soule beyng deliue­red out of the body, commeth into a much more larger and [Page] fayrer place, euen into heauen.

❧ A meditation con­cerning the sober vsage of the body, and pleasures in this life.

THe beginning of all e­uill in our kynde of li­uyng springeth out of the deprauation and corrupt­nes of our iudgement, because our will alwayes followeth that which reason iudgeth to be folowed. Now, that which euery man taketh to be frend­ly and agreyng to his nature, the same doth he iudge neces­sarily to be good for hym, and to be desired. This is meate, drinke, apparel, riches, fauour, [Page] dignitie, rule, knowledge, and such lyke, because they are thought good & agreeyng ei­ther to the body, or to y e mind, or to both, for they helpe either to the conseruation or to the pleasure of man, accompted of euery one amongest good thinges.

Howbeit such is the weak­nes of our witte on the one parte, and the blindnes and too much rage of our lustes on the other part, that we be­yng left to our selues, can not but in the desire of thynges which we iudge good and a­greeyng to our nature by the iudgement of our senses and reason, we cannot (I say) but [Page] ouerpasse the boundes wher­by they myght be profitable vnto vs, and so we make them hurtfull to vs, which of them­selues are ordayned for our health. What is more necessa­ry then meate and drynke, or more agreeyng to nature? but yet how few be there which do not hurt themselues by thē? In lyke maner it goeth with riches, estimation, frends, learning, &c. Yea although we be in these most temperate, yet when there wanteth the spirit our regeneratour, we are so drowned in them that we vt­terly neglect to lift vp our myndes to the good pleasure of God, to the ende we might [Page] imitate and follow God our maker by yelding our selues ouer, duly to vse his gyftes to the common and priuate vtili­ty of our neighbours.

But now, God onely is life and eternity, and cannot but demaunde of vs hys handi­worke, that we should render our selues and all we haue to the ende wherefore we were made, that is, to resemble for our portion, his goodnes, as those which be nothing els but witnesses & instrumēts of his mercy. So that when we wholy do naturally striue a­gainst that kind of life wherto he hath create vs, by seking al­wayes our selues, what other [Page] thing ought to ensue, but that he should againe destroy vs & take away his notable giftes, wherwith he therfore indued vs that by all kinde of wel do­yng we should resemble his i­mage: yea what other thyng may ensue but that he should leaue vs & that eternally, that we might feele and by experi­ence proue how bitter a thing it is to leaue the lord in whom is all goodnes? Oh that I might therfore find such fauor in thy sight deare father, that thou wouldest worke in me by thy holy spirite, a true know­ledge of all good thynges, and harty loue to the same, through Christ Jesus our lord and on­ly [Page] Sauiour.

Amen.

❧ A meditation vpon the passion of our Sauiour Iesus Christ.

OH Lord Jesus Christ, the sonne of y e almigh­and euerliuyng God, by whome all thynges were made, and be ruled and gouer­ned: thou the liuely image of the substaunce of the Father, the eternall wisedom of God, the brightnes of his glory, god of God, light of light, coequal, coeternall, and consubstancial with the father: thou which of the loue thou hadst to man­kynde when he was fallen [Page] from the felowship of God in­to the societie of Sathan and all euil, didst vouchsafe for our redemption to become a Me­diatour betwene God & man, taking to the Godhead our nature, as concerning the sub­staunce of it, and so becamest man: also the heire of all, and most merciful Messias: which by y e power of thy Godhead & merites of thy manhode, hast made purgatiō of our synnes, euē by thine owne self, whilest thou wast here on earth, be­ing now set on the right hand of thy father for vs, euen con­cernyng our nature, in maie­sty, glory, and power infinite: [Page] I pray and humbly besech thy mercy, to graunt me at thys present, to rehearse some of thy passions and suffringes for me the last night that thou wast here before thy death, that thy good spirite myght therby be effectual to worke in me faith, as well of the pardon of my synnes by them, as mortifica­tion of myne affections, com­fort in my crosses, and paciēce in afflictions, Amen.

In the midst of thy last sup­per with thy deare Apostles, these thynges could not but be before thee, namely that they all would leaue thee, the most earnest would forsweare thee, and one of the xij. should most [Page] traitrously betray thee: which were no small crosses vnto thee. Judas was admonished of thee to beware, but when he tooke no heede, but wilful­ly went out to finish his work, contemnyng thy admonition and counsell, he could not but vexe thy most louyng hart.

After supper, there was con­tention amongs thy disciples, who should be greatest after ter thee, yet dreamyng carnal­ly of thee and thy kyngdome, and hauyng this affection of pryde and ambition busie a­monges them, notwithstan­dyng thy diligence in repro­uyng and teachyng them.

After thy admonition to thē [Page] of the crosse that would come, therby to make them more vi­gilant: so grosse wer they that they thought they could wyth their two swordes put away all perils: which was no little griefe vnto thee.

After thy cōmyng to Geth­semane, heauines oppressed thee, & therfore thou wouldest thy disciples to pray. Thou didst tell to Peter and his fel­lowes, that thy hart was hea­uy to death. Thou didst wyll them to pray, being carefull for them also, lest they should fall into tēptation. After this thou wentest a stones cast from thē and didst pray thy selfe, falling flat and groueling vppon the [Page] earth: but (alas) y u feltest no comfort, and therfore thou ca­mest to thy disciples (which of all others were most sweete & deare vnto thee) but lo to thy further discomfort, they passe neither of thy perils, nor of their owne, and therfore sleepe apace. After thou hadst awa­ked thē, thou wentest agayne to pray, but thou foundest no comfort at all, & therfore didst returne agayne for some com­forte at thy dearest frendes handes. But yet againe (alas) they are fast a sleepe. Wheru­pon thou art enforced to go a­gayne to thy heauenly father for some sparckle of comfort in these thy wonderfull crosses & [Page] agonies. Now here thou wast so discouraged and so comfortles, that euē streames of bloud came runnyng from thine eies and eares, and other partes of thy body. But who is able to expresse the infinitenes of thy crosses, euen at thy beyng in the garden? All which thou sufferedst for my sake, as well to satisfy thy fathers wrath for my sinnes, as also to sancti­fy all my sufferinges, the more gladly to be susteyned of me.

After thy bloudy prayer thou camest, and yet agayne foun­dest thy disciples a sleepe, and before thou canst well awake them, loe, Judas cōmeth with a great bande of men, to ap­prehend [Page] thee as a theefe, and so doth, leadyng thee away bound, to y t hie Bishops house Annas, & so from him to Cay­phas. Here now to augment this thy misery, behold thy dis­ciples flie from thee: false wit­nesses be brought against thee: thou art accused and condem­ned of blasphemy: Peter, euen in thy sight forsweareth thee: thou art vniustly striken for answering lawfully: thou art blindefield, striken and buffe­ted all the whole nyght in the bishop Cayphas house, of their cruell seruauntes.

In the mornyng betymes y u art condemned agayne of the priestes, of blasphemy, & ther­fore [Page] they bring thee before the secular power, to Pilate, by whom thou art openly array­ned as other theeues and ma­lefactors were: and when he saw that thou wast accused of malice, yet he did not dismisse thee, but did sende thee to He­rode where thou wast derided shamefully, in commyng and goyng to hym and from hym all the way, especially after Herode had appareled thee as a foole.

Afore Pilate agayne ther­fore thou wast brought, and accused falsly: no mā did take thy part, or speak a good word for thee.

Pilate caused thee to be [Page] whipped and scourged, and to be handled most pitifully, to se if any pitie might apeare with the Prelates, but no man at all pitied thee.

Barrabas was preferred before thee: all the people, head and taile, was against thee & cryed, hang thee vp: vniustly to death wast thou iudged: thou wast crowned w t thornes that pearced thy braines: thou wast made a mocking stocke: thou wast reuiled, beaten, and most miserably handled.

Thou wentst through Je­rusalem, to the place of execu­tion, euen to the mount Cal­uery: a great crosse to hange thee on, was layde vppon thy [Page] backe to beare and drawe, as long as thou wast able.

Thy body was racked, to be nayled to the tree: thy hāds were bored thorow, & thy feete also: nayles were put thorow them to fasten thee thereon: thou wast hanged betwene heauen & earth, as one spewed out of heauē, and vomited out of the earth, vnworthy of any place: the high priest laughed thee to scorne: the elders blas­phemed thee, and sayd, God hath no care for thee: the com­mon people laughed and cried out vpon thee: thrist oppressed thee, but vineger onely & gall was geuen thee to drinke: hea­uen shined not on thee: the [Page] Sunne gaue thee no lyght: the earth was afrayd to beare thee: Sathan tempted thee, and thine owne senses caused thee to cry out: My God my GOD why hast thou forsaken me? Oh wonderfull passions which thou suffredst. In them thou teachest me, in them thou comfortest me: for by thē God is my father, my sinnes are forgeuen. By thē I should learne to feare God, to loue God, to hope in God, to hate synne, to be patient, to call vp­pon God, and neuer to leaue hym for any temptations, but with thee to cry: Father into thy handes, I commende my spirite.

A meditation of Gods power, beautie, goodnes, &c.

BEcause thou lord woul dest haue vs to loue thee, not onely doost thou will, entice, allure & pro­uoke vs, but also doost com­maund vs so to do, promisyng thy self vnto such as loue thee, and threatning vs with dam­nation if we doo otherwyse: wherby we may see both our great corruption and nough­tines, and also thine excedyng great mercy towardes vs.

First, concerning our cor­ruptiō and noughtines, what a thing is it, that power, ri­ches, authoritie, beautie, good­nes, liberalitie, truth, iustice, (which all thou art good lord) [Page] cannot moue vs to loue thee? Whatsoeuer thynges we see, fayre, good, wyse, mighty, are but euen sparkles of that power, beautie, goodnes, wisdom, which y u art. For to y e end thou mightst declare thy riches, beuty, power, wisdom, y u hast not only made, but still doost con­serue all creatures to be (as Dauid sayth of the heauens) declarers and setters forth of thy glory, and as a booke to teach vs to know thee.

How fayre thou art, y e beau­tie of the Sunne, Moone, Stars, light, flowers, riuers, fieldes, hils, birdes, beastes, men and all creatures, yea the goodly shape and forme of the [Page] whole world doth declare.

How mighty thou art, we are taught by the creation of this world euen of nought, by gouerning the same, by puni­shing the wicked mighty Gi­ants therof, by ouerthrowing their deuises, by repressing y e rages of the sea w tin her bounds, by stormes, by tempestes, by fires: these and such lyke de­clare vnto vs thine inuisible, almighty, and terrible power, whereby thou subduest all thinges vnto thee.

How riche thou art, thys worlde, thy great and infinite treasurehouse doth well de­clare. What plenty is there, [Page] not onely of thinges, but also of euery kinde of things? Yea how doost thou yearely and daily multiply these kyndes? How many seedes doost thou make of one seede? yea what great increse doost thou bring it vnto? These cannot but put vs in remembraunce of the ex­ceedyng riches that thou hast. For if to thyne enemies which loue thee not (as the most part in this world be) if to thē thou geuest so plentifully thy riches here, what shal we thinke that with thy selfe thou hast layde vp for thy frendes?

How good thou art, all crea­tures generally and perticu­larly do teach. What creature [Page] is there in the worlde which thou hast not made for our cō ­moditie? I will not say how that thou mightst haue made vs creatures without sense or reason if thou haddest would. But amongst al things, none doth teach vs so thy great loue towardes vs, as doth y e death of thy most dearely beloued sonne, who suffred the paynes and terrours thereof, yea and hell it selfe, for our sakes. If this thy loue had bene but a smal loue, it would neuer haue lasted so long, nor Christ shold neuer haue died.

❧ A prayer to Christ crucified.

[Page] AS thou O Lord, wast crucified for me, so I beseeche thee crucify me with thee, that I may ryse agayne with thee to euerla­sting lyfe. Thy flesh was cru­cified for me: crucifie with thee (O Christ) the kingdom of the flesh which hath dominion in me, that I may put of the olde Adam, and by newnes of lyfe, may be transformed into thee that second Adam, sinne, infi­delitie, and the whole tiranny of Sathan beyng vanquished and ouercome. Bring to passe, O Lord, that by thy crosse and painefull sufferyng, thy yoke may be to me made light, and thy burden easy, that willing­ly [Page] and gladly following thee, I may come whether thou art gone: that is, to thy father most blessed and immortall, from whom nothing shall af­terwardes be able to seperate vs.

‘* God forbid that I should reioyce in any thing but in the crosse of our Lorde Iesus Christ, whereby the world is crucified vnto me, and I vnto the world.’

❧ A prayer to Christ ascended and reigning in glory.

OH good Christ, our first begotten brother and tender harted Joseph: [Page] oh naturall sonne of that Fa­ther, to whome we are made children of adoption through thee: oh our head reigning on high in glory: forget not vs thy poore members here on earth, wherinto abasyng thy selfe, thou camest downe and sufferedst for vs most cruell death. Out of this thy throne of maiestie and glory, thou put test vs in assured hope & con­fidence, that we also shall at­tain to that blessed place whe­ther thou art gone before to take possession for vs. Oh our strong tower of defence and succor, what can hurt vs now trusting in thee? Most vnhap­py are they which are igno­rant [Page] of thee. Most happy are they which alwayes beholde thee. Blessed are they which haue knowen thee here in the dayes of their mortalitie: but more blessed are they which see thee in the heauens, and shall see thee raigning with thy fa­ther in ioyes incomparable.

Oh Lord, the onely ioy and comfort of our soules, shew vs thy louing countenance: em­brace vs with the armes of thy mercy: receiue vs O good Joseph thy younger brethern, with y e kisse of comfort: poure into our hartes thy holy spirit: plucke vs vp from the earth & earthly things: open our eies and lift them vp vnto thee: o­pen [Page] thy mouth and call vs vn­to thee: open our eares that we may heare thee, so that whatsoeuer we do speake or thinke, it may be directed vn­to thee alone, our redemer, me­diatour and aduocate.

If ye be risen agayne with Christ, seke the thinges which are aboue where Christ sitteth at the right haud of God: set your affection on thinges that are aboue, and not on things which are on the earth.

❧ A prayer for the a­uoyding of Gods deserued wrath and vengeaunce for our sinne.

WHen we looke backe & behold our sinfull lyfe past, what a dungeon [Page] of errors, vice, and wickednes openeth it selfe vnto vs? so that there is no man but he must needes be ashamed of himself when he calleth to mind what he hath bene, and tremble when he considereth the wic­kednes and sinfull course of hys life to come. For who shal vndertake that the rest of our lyfe shall be any better then that is past? How can we then sufficiently magnifie & prayse thy great mercy, which hast differred thy punishment so long? Beholding therfore this our daungerous and misera­ble state, we come vnto thee (O thou great and mighty iudge) in trembling & feare, [Page] humbly beseching thee not to heape vppon vs thy deserued vengeance, but let thy tender kindenes and loue thou bea­rest to Jesus Christ thy deare sonne our gracious Lord and redemer, couer our iniquities: for whose sake, though we de­serue all extremity, thou doost pardon vs.

If thou Lord shalt straitly marke our iniquities (O Lord) who shall be able to abide it?

¶ A prayer to God for his helpe and protection against the obstinate enemies of the truth.

MOst righteous iudge, God of all mercy and comfort, which by thy [Page] secret iudgement and wisdom doost suffer the wicked to tri­umph and increase for a tyme, for trial of the faith of thy wel­beloued little flocke, and the mortifying of their lustes, but at length to the vtter confuliō of the enemies, and ioyfull de­liuerance of thy people: looke down, we besech thee, on thy dispersed sheepe out of thy ho­ly habitation in heauen, and strengthen our weakenes a­gainst their furious rages: a­bate their pryde: asswage their malice: confound their deui­ses, wherwith they lift vp thē ­selues agaynst Christ Jesus thy sonne our Lord and Sa­uiour, to deface his glory and [Page] set vp Antichrist. We be not able of our selues to thynke a good thought, much lesse to stand against their assaultes, except thy vndeserued grace and mighty arme defend and deliuer vs. Performe thy pro­mises made to Jacob, and stop the mouthes of the cursed E­domites. Call them to repen­tance whom thou hast appoin­to saluation, bring home them that runne astray, lighten the blynde, and teache the igno­raunt: forgeue all those that wilfully and obstinately rebel not against thy holy will, let thy feareful threatnings pierce our stony hartes, and make vs tremble at thy iudgemēts.

[Page] Make the examples of them whom thou hast ouerthrowne in their own deuises, as Cain, Cham, Nemrod, Esau, Pha­rao, Saule, Achitophell, Ju­das, & such other to be a war­ning for vs, that we set not vp our selues agaynst thy holy will. Graunt free passage to thy holy worde, that it may worke effectually in vs the worke of lyfe and blessed hope of our saluation, to the eternal praise of thy maiestie, through our mediatour Christ Jesus: to whome with thee and the holy ghost, three persons and one God, be prayse & thanks­geuyng in all congregations world without end. So be it.

¶ A Prayer for the af­flicted and persecuted vnder the tyranny of Antichrist.

O Mercifull father, who neuer dost forsake such as put their trust in thee: stretch forth thy mighty arme to the defence of our bre­thren, by the rage of enemies persecuted and greuously tor­mented in sundry places for the true profes1ion of thy holy Gospell, who in theyr extreme necessitie cry for comfort vnto thee. Let not thy long suffe­ring O Lorde, be an occasion eyther to encrease the tyranny of thy enemies, or to discou­rage thy children, but with [Page] speede O Lorde, consider their great miseries and afflictions. Preuent the cruell deuise of Aman: stay the rage of Holo­phernes: breake of the counsell of Achitophell. Let not y e wic­ked say: Where is now their God? Let thy afflicted flocke feele present ayde and reliefe from thee O Lord: looke downe vp­on them with thy pitifull eye from thy holy habitation: send terrour and trembling among their enemies: make an end of their outragious tyrāny: beate backe their boldnes in suppres­sing thy truth, in destroying thy true seruantes, in defacing thy glory, & in setting vp An­tichrist. Let them not thus [Page] proudly aduaunce them selues agaynst thee and thy Christ, but let them vnderstand and feele that agaynst thee they fight. Preserue and defend the vine which thy right hād hath planted, and let all nations see the glory of thine annointed,

Amen.

¶ A Prayer to be sayd before the receauing of the Communion.

O Father of mercy and God of all consolati­on, seing all creatures do knowledge and cōfesse thee to be their gouernour & Lord, it becōmeth vs the workman­ship [Page] of thine owne handes, at all times to reuerence & mag­nifie thy godly maiestie: First, for that thou hast created vs to thine owne Image and si­militude, but chiefly because thou hast deliuered vs frō that euerlasting death and damna­tion, into the which Sathan drew mankind by the meanes of sinne: from the bondage wherof neyther man, nor An­gell was able to make vs free, but thou (O Lorde) riche in mercy, and infinite in good­nes, hast prouided our redemp­tion to stand in thine onely and welbeloued sonne: whom of very loue, y u didst geue to be made man like vnto vs in all [Page] thinges, sinne excepted, that in hys body he might receaue the punishment of our trans­gression, by hys death to make satisfaction to thy iustice, and by hys resurrection to destroy him that was author of death, and so to bring againe life to the worlde, from which the whole ofspring of Adam was most iustly exiled.

O Lord, we acknowledge that no creature was able to comprehend the length and breadth, the deepenes and height of that thy most excel­lent loue which moued thee to shewe mercy where none was deserued, to promise and geue lyfe where death had [Page] gotten victory, to receaue vs into thy grace when we could doe nothing but rebell against thy maiestie. O Lord, y e blind dulnes of our corrupt nature will not suffer vs sufficiently to weigh these thy most ample benefites: yet neuertheles at the commaundement of Jesus Christ our Lorde, we present our selues to thys hys table (which he hath left to be vsed in remembraunce of hys death vntill hys comming agayne) to declare and witnes before the world, that by hym alone we haue receaued libertie and life: that by hym alone thou doest acknowledge vs to bee thy children and heyres: that [Page] by hym alone we haue en­trance to y e throne of thy grace: that by him alone we are pos­sessed in our spirituall king­dome, to eate and drinke at his table, with whom we haue our conuersation presently in heauen, and by whom our bo­dyes shall be raised vp agayne from the duste, and shall bee placed with hym in that end­les ioy, which thou (O father of mercy) hast prepared for thine elect before the founda­tion of the world was layde, And these most inestimable be­nefites we acknowledge and confesse to haue receaued of thy free mercy and grace, by thine onely beloued sonne Je­sus [Page] Christ. For the which ther­fore we thy congregation, mo­ued by thy holy spirite, render to thee all thankes, praise, and glory, for euer and euer.

¶ A thankesgeuing af­ter the receauiug of the holy Communion.

TOst mercifull father, we render vnto thee all prayse, thankes, ho­nour, & glory, for that it hath pleased thee of thy great mer­cies, to graunt vs miserable sinners, so excellent a gift and treasure, as to receaue vs into the fellowship & company of thy deare sonne Jesus Christ [Page] our Lord, whom thou hast de­liuered to death for vs, & hast geuen hym vnto vs as a neces­sary foode and nourishment vnto euerlasting lyfe. And now we besech thee also (O heauenly father) to graunt vs thys request, that thou neuer suffer vs to become so vnkind, as to forget so worthy bene­fites, but rather imprint and fasten them sure in our hartes, that we may grow & encrease dayly more and more in true fayth, which continually is ex­ercised in all maner of good workes: and so much y e rather (O Lord) confirme vs in these perillous dayes and rages of Sathan, that we may con­stantly [Page] stand and continue in the confession of the same, to the aduauncemēt of thy glory, which art God ouer al things, blessed for euer, So be it.

¶ A Prayer for wise­dome to gouerne the Realme.

ALmightie God & King of all Kinges, Lorde of heauē & earth, by whose ordinaunce Princes haue go­uernance of mortal mē, wher­as the wisest King Salomon plainly confesseth him self vn­able to gouerne his kingdome without thy helpe & assistance: how much lesse shall I thy handmaide, being by kinde a [Page] weake womā, haue sufficient abilitie to rule these thy king­domes of England and Ire­land, an innumerable & war­like nation, or how shall I possibly be able to beare the in­finite weight of so great a bur­den, vnlesse thou (O most mer­cifull father) as thou hast of thine own liberalitie, without my deseruing and agaynst the expectation of many, geuen me a kingdome and made me to reigne, doe also in my reig­ning endue and helpe me with thy heauenly grace, without which, none, euen the wisest among the childrē of men, can once thinke a right thought. Thou therefore (O endlesse [Page] foūtaine of all wisedome) send downe from thy holy heauen, and frō the soueraigne throne of thy maiestie, thy wisedome, to be euer with me, and alway to assist me, to watch and la­bour with me in gouerning the common weale: and that it may so teach and instruct me thy hādmaide, that I may discerne betwene good & euill, and betwene right & wronge, that I may euer haue willing­nes, boldnes, & power, to geue deserued punishment to y e gil­tie, louingly to defend the in­nocent, liberally to cherish the painefull and profitable mem­bers of the common weale: finally without regard of per­sons, [Page] w tout accompt of world­ly respectes take in hand, exe­cute, and performe that which I shall know to please thee a­lone: that when thou y e right­full iudge that shalt require many & great thynges at their handes to whom many and great thinges are committed, shalt call vs all to a straite reckening, I be not condem­ned as giltie of euill gouer­naunce: but if I thy hand­maide, by naturall frailtie, weaknes, and want of cōside­ration, shall in any thing haue swarued from the right way, it may please thee of thy great mercy (most soueraigne king and most louing father) for

[Page] Jesus Christ thy sonnes sake, to pardon me, and graunt that after this earthly kingdome expired, I may with thee en­ioy the heauenly and euerla­sting kingdome, through the same Jesus Christ thy sonne, our Lorde and Mediator, to whom with thee and with the holy ghost, the only king of all worldes, immortall, inuisible, & onely wise God, be all honour and glory for euer. ⸫

Domine ne in furore.

PSALME. VI. ‘¶ When Dauid by his sinnes had prouo­ked Gods wrath, and now felte not onely his hand against him, but also conceyued the horrors of death euer­lasting, he desireth forgeuenes, be­wailing that if God tooke him away in his indignation, he should lacke oc­casion to prayse him as he was wont to do whiles he was among mē. Then sodenly feeling Gods mercy, he sharp­ly rebuketh his enemies which reioy­ced in his affliction.

O Lorde rebuke me not in thine indig­natiō: neither cha­sten me in thy dis­pleasure.

My soule is also sore trou­bled: but Lord how long wilt [Page 42] thou punish me?

Turne thee, O Lord, and deliuer my soule, Oh saue me for thy mercies sake.

For in death no man remē ­breth thee, and who will geue thee thankes in the pit?

I am wery of my groning, euery night wash I my bedde and water my couch w t teares.

My beautie is gone for very trouble, and worne away be­cause of all mine enemies.

Away frō me all that worke vanitie, for the Lorde hath heard the voyce of my weping.

The Lorde hath heard my petition, the Lord will heare my prayer.

All mine enemies shall be [Page 43] confounded & sore vexed: they shall be turned backe and put to shame sodainly.

A prayer taken out of the VI. Psalme.

WE deserue without dout (O almighty God) for our wicked offences and infinite sinnes, to be se­uerely chastised of thee: but tru­styng to thy great mercy, we most humbly beseeche thee that thou wilte not punishe vs in thy wrath, nor in thy heauye displeasure. We tremble, O our good father, and be in manner astonied with feare, when we call to mynde our owne sinnes and thy righteousnes. Do not therfore, we besech thee, as we haue with our euill deedes [Page 44] deserued, throw vs downe to hell, for there we shall not be able to sing to thy glory, nor to set forth thy prayse. Our enemies do gredi­ly desire to haue it so: but thou, O God, looke backe vpon the teares of them that trust in thee, & make the workers of wickednes to de­part from vs. Finally so heare vs, that they all may be ashamed & confounded that are enemies to our safetie and to thy glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

Beati quorum.

PSALME XXXII. ‘¶ Dauid punished with greuous sicknes for his sinnes, counteth them blessed to whome God doth not impute their transgressions. And after that he had confessed his sinnes and obteined par­don, he exhorteth the wicked men to liue godly, and the good to reioyce.’

BLessed is he whose vn­righteousnes is forge­uen, and whose sinne is couered.

Blessed is the man vnto whome the Lorde imputeth no sinne, and in whose spirite there is no guile.

For while I helde my tong, my bones consumed awaye, thorough my daily complay­ning.

[Page 46] For thy hand is heauy vpon me day & night, and my moy­sture is lyke the droughte in sommer.

I will knowledge my sinne vnto thee, and mine vnrighte­ousnes haue I not hid.

I sayde, I will confesse my sinnes vnto the Lord, and so thou forgauest the wickednes of my sinne.

For this shall euery one that is godly, make his prayer vn­to thee, in a tyme when thou mayst be found: but in y e great water floudes, they shall not come nigh hym.

Thou art a place to hide me in, thou shalt preserue me from [Page 47] trouble, thou shalte compasse me about with songes of deli­uerance.

I will enforme thee & teach thee in the way wherein thou shaltgo, and I wil guide thee with mine eye.

Be ye not lyke to horse and mule, which haue no vnder­standing, whose mouths must be holden with bit and bridle, lest they fall vpon thee.

Great plages remayne for the vngodly, but who so put­teth his trust in the Lord, mer­cy embraceth hym on euery syde.

Be glad O ye righteous & reioyce in the Lord, & be ioyful all ye that are true of harte.

¶ A prayer taken out of the XXXII. Psalme.

WE are taught by thee, O our most good and mighty God, that here in standeth the true fe­licitie of those that be thyne, that their sinnes be forge­uen, couered, and not layd to their charge in thy iudgement. Of the obtaining whereof, if euer there were neede, now it appeareth that we haue greatest neede of it, when the calamities of this present time do set our sinnes before our eyes. For we feele that thy hand waxeth heauy vppon thy church, where­fore we haue thought it best for vs not to cloke our synnes, but to confesse them openly before thee, and we distrust not, that thou of thy great goodnes wilt forth with pardon & forgeue vs our offences.

[Page 49] Wherfore being thine owne, we beseche thee at this tyme, when we doubte not that thou wilte be founde, that thou wilt not suffer thy people to be ouerwhelmed of the vngodly which now abounde like vnto ouerflowing waters. Be thou to vs a place of succour & re­fuge in these afflictions. Do thou instruct and teach vs the wayes of saluation, and whatsoeuer portion of brutish and vntamed lust remai­neth in vs, do thou with the bitte and bridle of thy spirite so subdue and restraine, that we be not for it throwne hedlong into euerlasting destruction. And at length O Lord let the sorrowes and miseries be poured out vpon the enemies of thy glory: but let those that trust in thee be fenced and defended with thy singuler bountifulnes, that they which be zelous louers [Page 50] of thy name and vpright in harte, may reioyce in thee and triumphe with perfect gladnes, through Ie­sus Christ our Lord.

An other out of the same Psalme.

THey are vndoub­tedly blessed (O al­mighty GOD) to whom of thy mercy thou hast vouchsa­ued to pardon their sinnes, and not to impute to them but to couer and forgeue all the wickednes and misdoing what so euer it be, that hath heretofore de­filed them. We do most certainly know, that it is impossible for vs to obteine so great a benefite, vn­lesse we do first onely see our owne [Page 51] euils and bewray them to thee, and poure forth into thy bosome what so euer we haue sinnefully, wickedly, and shamefully commit­ted against thy law. Wherefore we confesse to thee, O our heauenly father, that our vnrighteousnes is most haynous, and that our con­sciences are most miserably ouer­burdened with the weight of our wickednes. Thou therefore with thy mercy do now relieue vs, and whatsoeuer misdoyng and iniqui­tie remaineth in vs, we besech thee that thou wilt louingly and mer­cifully wipe it away from vs. Deli­uer vs from the miseries hangyng ouer vs, instruct vs with true vn­derstanding, and with thy prudent care so gouerne vs, that we do not with euill affections runne out of kinde, and become as most folishe brute beastes: but that being gar­nished [Page 52] with thy goodnes, we may be cheared with true gladnes and perfect ioy before thee, thorough Iesus Christ our Lord,

Amen.

Domine in.

PSALME XXXVIII. ‘¶ Dauid lying sicke of some greuous di­sease, acknowledgeth himselfe to be chastised of the Lorde for his sinnes, and therfore prayeth God to turne a­way his wrath. He vttereth the greatnes of his griefe by many wordes and circumstances, as wounded with the arrowes of Gods ire, forsaken of hys frendes, euill intreated of his enemies. But in the end with firme confidence he commendeth his cause to God, and hopeth for spedy helpe at his hand.’

PUt me not to rebuke (O Lord) in thine an­ger, neyther chasten [Page 53] me in thy heauy displeasure.

For thine arrowes stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

There is no health in my flesh because of thy displeasure, neither is there any rest in my bones, by reason of my sinne.

For my wickednes are gone ouer my head, and are lyke a sore burthen to heauy for me to beare.

My woundes stincke and are corrupt through my folish­nes.

I am brought into so great trouble and misery, that I go mourning all the day long.

For my loines are filled with a sore disease, and there is no [Page 54] whole part in my body.

I am feble and sore smitten I haue rored for the very dis­quietnes of my hart.

Lord thou knowest all my desire, and my groning is not hid from thee.

My hart panteth, my strēgth hath failed me, and the lyght of mine eyes is gone from me.

My louers and my neigh­bours did stand looking vpon my trouble, and my kinsmen stoode a farre of.

They also that sought after my life laid snares for me, and they that wente about to doo me euill, talked of wickednes, and imagined deceipt all the day long.

[Page 55] As for me, I was like a deafe man and heard not, & as one that is dombe, which doth not open his mouth.

I became euen as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofes.

For in thee O Lorde, haue I put my trust: thou shalt an­swer for me O Lord my God.

I haue required that they (euen myne enemies) should not triumph ouer me, for whē my foote slipte, they reioyced greatly against me.

And I truely am set in the plague, and my heauines is e­uer in my sight.

For I wil consider my wic­kednes, and bee sory for my [Page 56] sinne.

But mine enemies liue and are mighty, & they that hate me wrongfully are many in number.

They also that reward euil for good are agaynst me, be­cause I know the thyng that is good.

Forsake me not (O Lord my God:) be not thou far fro me. Hast thee to helpe me O lord (God) my saluation.

A prayer taken out of the XXXVIII. Psalme.

REbuke and chastice vs (O Lord) as children, but withdrawe thy wrath and heauy hand [Page 57] from our present distresses. For we feele thy hande and the daungers wherin we be: we perceyue them to be past the cure of mans reme­dy, which happeneth vnto vs not vnworthely for our deseruing. For sinnes and wickednesses haue eue­ry way ouerwhelmed vs, wherwith we are ouerburdened and pressed downe farre more then we be able to beare. Hereof commeth our so­row and that we be in maner fain­ted with griefefulnes of harte. We see our neighbours and frendes e­stranged from vs, our enemies to lay snares for vs, and to attempt all the wayes to our destruction. Thou therefore (O God) for thy great mercy, first reconcile vs to thy selfe, in pardonyng all those thinges that we haue most wickedly committed against thee, and thē make hast to helpe vs. We loke for [Page 58] no other refuge but thee, whose wont it is to be at hand to succour them that call vppon thee, & to sa­tisfie their petitions. Thou art not ignoraunt how, while we are thus shakē with aduersities, antichristes do triumphe against vs, and they daily increase in strength & num­ber that do wrongfully hate vs. Wherefore we beseche thee, good father, forsake vs not in so great afflictions, sith thou art our onely safety, make hast (we pray thee) to helpe thy church, and to suc­cor her now beyng in ex­tremest perill, for Iesus Christes his sake.

Amen.

Miserere mei deus.

PSALME. LI. ‘¶ When Dauid was rebuked by the prophet Nathan for his great offences, he dyd not onelye acknowledge the same to God with protestation of his naturall corruption and iniquitie, but also lefte a memoriall thereof to his posteritie. Therfore first he desi­red God to forgeue his sinnes, and to renue in him his holy spirit, with pro­mise that he will not be vnmindfull of those great graees. Finally fearyng least God would punishe the whole church for his faut, he requireth that he would rather increase his graces towardes the same.’

HAue mercy vppon me, O God, after thy great goodnes accordyng vnto y e multitude of thy [Page 60] mercies, do away myne offen­ces.

Washe me throughly from my wickednes, and cleanse me from my sinne.

For I knowledge my faultes, & my sinne is euer before me.

Against thee onely haue I sinned, and done this euill in thy sight, that thou mightest be iustified in thy saying, and cleare when thou art indged.

Beholde, I was shapen in wickednes, and in sinne hath my mother conceiued me.

But lo, thou requirest truth in the inwarde partes, & shalt make me to vnderstande wis­dome secretly.

Thou shalt purge me with [Page 61] Jsope, and I shall be cleane, thou shalte washe me, and I shall be whiter then snow.

Thou shalt make me heare ioy and gladnes, that y e bones whiche thou hast broken may reioyce.

Turne thy face from my sinnes, and blotte out all my misdeedes.

Make me a cleane hart (O God,) and renue a right spirit within me.

Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy ho­ly spirite from me.

O geue me the comforte of thy helpe againe, and stablish me with thy free spirite.

Then shall I teache thy [Page 62] wayes vnto the wycked, and sinners shall he conuerted vn­to thee.

Deliuer me from bloudgil­tines O god, thou that art the God of my health, & my tonge shall sing of thy righteousnes.

Thou shalt open my lippes O Lord, and my mouthe shall shew thy prayse.

For thou desirest no sacri­fice, els would I geue it thee, but thou delightst not in burnt offringes.

The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirite, a broken and contrite hart O god shalt thou not despise.

O be fauourable and grati­ous vnto Sion: builde thou [Page 63] the walles of Jerusalem.

Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of rightous­nes, with the burnt offringes and oblations, then shall they offer young bullockes vppon thine aulter.

A prayer taken out of the LI. Psalme.

WE do with one whole consent and with har­ty prayers craue of thy mercy (O almightye God) that we maye be cleansed, washed, and wyped from our wickednesses, sinnes and offences. We acknowledge and confesse how we haue heretofore done e­uil in thy sight, but our sinnes shal [Page 64] neuer be able to make thee vniust or vnfaithfull. We do well vnder­stande that we deserue not, that thou shouldest performe to vs the noble and most honorable promi­ses that thou hast made vs, but herein we haue neede to be relie­ued, and our case to be supplied with thy truthe and constancie. Thou seest how we are borne into the world, corrupt and defiled e­uen from our birth, which were al­so before our birth conceyued in wickednes. Cleanse therfore our soules, and vouchsaue to beautifie them with that cleannes that is pleasaunt in thy sight. Geue vs a pure hart, & a spirit vpright, holy, and couragiously well disposed, that we may not be cast away from thee as vngodly persons, but may receyue true ioyes and perfect gladnes. If thou shalt haue deliue­red [Page 65] vs from sinnes whiche do ac­cuse vs as guilty of eternall death, then shall our lippes be opened to prayse thee with cherefulnes. Graunt we beseche thee that we may come to thee with the sacri­fice wherwith thou art principally debated, that is, of a broken spi­rite, an abaced and humbled cou­rage. There both our present so­rowes shal be eased, and thou shalt be pleased with the prayses wher­with we shall magnify thy name. Shew forth thy good will to Zion, that is, to thy church. Thou seest in how great daunger she is tossed, she is oppressed both within and without. We beseche thee deliuer her not onely from outward ene­mies, but also inwardly so reforme and renew her, that she may be ac­cōpted worthy of thee her spouse, through Iesus Christ our lord Amē

¶ A prayer taken out of the same Psalme.

WE acknowledge (O Al­mighty God) wyth how daungerous spotte of sinnes we haue defiled our soules, which beyng most gre­uous and sorrowfull vnto vs, and we not able with our owne power nor by any kinde of good workes to washe away the same spottes, this onely refuge is left vs, to flie vnto thee the fountaine of mercy that it may please thee to haue pi­tie vpon vs, to washe away our ini­quities to blot out our sinnes and cleanse the corruptions wherunto we are from our birth and conception subiect. For when thou shalt haue freely & liberally pardoned the offences and misdoinges wher with we are loden, then shalt thou appeare most true, faithful & con­stant [Page 67] in thy promises. Vouchsaue to sprinckle vs with the bloude of of thine onely sonne, by which a­lone our body and soule may be restored to perfect and healthfull gladnes. We craue to haue a new hart created in our bodies, and to haue a principall spirite geuen vs, wherby, not as by constraint, but earnestly, hartily, and willingly we may offer to thee the sacrifice of an afflicted and abased courage, which thou art wont neuer to de­spise. Finally that so beyng made cleane and purified, by thy fauour and mercy, we may alway offer to thee sacrifices of prayse, through Iesus Christ our Lord,

Amen.

❧ Domine exaudi.

PSALME. CII. ‘I It seemeth that this prayer was ap­poynted to the faithfull to pray in the captiuitie of Babilon. A consolati­on for the buildyng of the churche, whereof followeth the prayse of God to be published vnto all posterities. The conuersion of the Gentiles, and the stabilitie of the church.’

HEare my prayer (O Lord) and let my cry come in vnto thee. Hide not thy face from me in the tyme of trou­ble, encline thyne eares vnto me when I call, O heare me and that right soone.

For my dayes are consumed away like smoke, & my bones [Page 69] are brent vp as with a fire­brand.

My hart is smitten downe and withered like grasse: so that I forget to eat my bread.

For the voice of my groning my bones will scant cleaue to my flesh.

I am become lyke a Pelli­cane in the wildernes, & lyke an Owle that is in the desert.

I haue watched and am e­uen as a sparrow that sitteth alone vpon the house top.

Mine enemies reuile me all the day long, and they that are mad vpon me, are sworne together against me.

For I haue eaten ashes as it were breade, and mingled [Page 70] my teares with weping.

And that because of thyne in­dignation and wrath, for thou hast taken me vp and cast me downe.

My dayes are gone lyke a shadow, and I am withered like grasse.

But thou (O Lorde) shalt endure for euer, and thy re­membraunce throughout all generations.

Thou shalt arise and haue mercy vppon Sion, for it is tyme that thou haue mercy v­pon her, yea, the tyme is come.

And why: thy seruauntes thinke vppon her stones, and it pitieth them to see her in the dust.

[Page 71] The heathen shall feare thy name (O Lorde,) and all the kinges of the earth thy ma­iestie.

When the Lord shall build vp Sion, and when his glo­ry shall appeare.

When he turneth him vnto the prayer of the poore desti­tute, and despiseth not theyr desire.

This shall be written for those that come after, and the people whiche shall be borne, shall prayse the Lord.

For he hath looked downe from his sanctuary, out of the heauen did the Lord beholde the earth.

That he might heare the [Page 72] mourninges of suche as be in captiuitie, and deliuer the chil­dren appointed vnto death.

That they may declare the name of the lord in Sion: and his worship at Jerusalem.

When the people are gathe­red together, and the kyng­domes also to serue the Lord.

He broughte downe my strength to my iourney, and shortned my dayes.

But I said, O my God take me not away in the middest of myne age, as for thy yeares they endure throughout all generations.

Thou Lord in the beginning hast layde the foundations of the earth, and the heauens [Page 73] are the workes of thy handes.

They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: they shal all wax olde, as doth a garment.

And as a vesture shalt thou chaunge them, and they shall be chaunged: but thou art the same, and thy yeares shall not faile.

The children of thy seruants shall continue: and their seede shall stand fast in thy sight.

A prayer taken out of the CII. Psalme.

OF our selues (O almighty God) we are vnwoorthy that our prayers shoulde haue accesse vnto thee, [Page 74] forasmuch as we haue daily bro­ken thy law and commaundemēts and haue liued not accordyng to thy gospell and our vocation. But thou of thy mercifulnes, hide not away thy face from our prayers & supplications. For we are greuous­ly vexed and assaulted with great perils. Wherfore bow down thine eare vnto vs, and spedily graunt fauour to vs that call vppon thee. First we craue to be releued of our sinnes and offences, that our feble hart may be strengthened in thy way, and that thou do moisten the consumed strength of our soule with thy holy spirite, that we may liue to thee, and being restored & renewed, we may make thy name and thy gospell to be well repor­ted. Then we pray thee to turne thy force and power against those that slaunder and blaspheme the [Page 75] name of thy sonne and his holy doctrine. Haue mercy now we be­seche thee, on Zion, that is, thy churche, for now it seemes to be tyme that thou shew her thy fa­uour. Looke downe we pray thee, from thy hie habitation, and be­hold our calamities. Heare the groning of those that be bound, bea­ten, and in maruelous wise tormē ­ted for thy names sake. Saue thy sheepe out of so great daungers, which are not onely put to death, but also cursedly threatened with extreme damnation by Antichrist that yet at length thy childrē may liue with rest and quietnes in thy presence, through Iesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

An other out of the same Psalme.

[Page 76] OAlmighty father, the company of the faithfull cra­ueth thy helpe, which is cruelly oppressed wyth the tiranny of sinne, so as the oi­ly moisture of godlines is almost dried vp in them, their mouth is stopped that it cannot syng thy prayses, and there is in a maner in the whole body no one member, that doth his duetie to relieue an other. Wherfore thou that art al­wayes one, rise vp to succour vs, for now we thinke it tyme for thee to helpe thy afflicted church. This if we shall obtaine, we doubt not that the feare of thy name & true godlines shall be largely spread a­broad. For if thou shalt rescue the people from so greuous miseries, thou shalt make men know that thy truth endureth alway cōstant and vnremoued, which euer rema­neth [Page 77] one toward thine elect, how so euer heauen and earth be tossed with chaunges, and shaken til they perishe. By this thy truth, not of our owne strengthes and deser­uinges, but by thy louing and mercifull working, we pray to be sa­ued and restored, thorough Iesus Christ our Lord,

Amen.

Deprofundis cla.

PSALME. CXXX. ‘¶ The people of God from their bottom­les miseries do cry vnto God and are heard. They confesse their sinnes and flee vnto Gods mercy.’

OUt of the depe haue I called vnto thee (O Lord:) Lord heare my voyce.

[Page 78] O let thine eares consider wel: the voyce of my cōplaint.

If thou Lorde wilt be ex­treme & marke what is done amisse: oh Lord who may a­byde it?

For there is mercy with thee therfore shalt thou be feared.

I looke for the Lorde, my soule doth wait for him: in his word is my trust.

My soule flyeth vnto the Lorde: before the mornyng watch (I say) before the mor­ning watch.

O Israell trust in the Lord for with the lord there is mer­cy: and with him is plenteous redemption.

And he shall redeme Israel [Page 79] from all his sinnes.

A prayer taken out of the same Psalme.

THou art oft wont (O al­mighty God) greuously to afflict thy faythfull people, that thereby they may retourne to thee with feruent and perfect re­pentaunce, whereof nowe in thy churche we haue experience, in these most troublesome times. For we that heretofore haue infinite wayes bene vnthankfull to thee, & haue daily broken thy law, are of­tentimes so vexed with the fierce­nes of the diuell and his seruantes that we are constrained to cry to thee out of the most depe pitte of our miseries, & to pray thee that thou wilt not so seuerely punishe [Page 80] our sinnes. If thou (O God) be de­termined to marke and punish our iniquities according to their de­seruinges, which of vs shall be so cleane and holy, that he shall be a­ble to stand before thy righteous­nes. But sith we knowe that thou art full of exceding mercy, we do both morning & euening loke vp for thy helpe. Although therefore our offences be many, yet it may please thee of thy most plentifull goodnes and mercy to succour vs, that beyng deliuered from these instant perils, and from the mise­ries that oppresse vs, we may both beleue and report that with thee alone is true redemption, through Iesus Christ our Lord,

Amen.

An other prayer taken out of the same psalme.

[Page 81] FOrasmuch as (O almigh­ty God) we are continu­ally tossed in the depe sea of temptations▪ and are not able of our selues to withstand them, we do for our great necessi­tie beseche thee mercifully to re­lieue vs. For if thou beyng iudge and examiner of all our doynges, shalt narrowly marke all our offences against thee, and rigorously punish them, who shall be able to stand before thy throne? Where­fore sithe there is with thee great and infinite clemency, as our only trust is therin, so we beseche thee that our iniquities may therby be redeemed. With this onely confi­dence we are daily & hourely nou­rished, and do trust that thou wilt neuer forget the true Israell, that is, thy church. Graunt therfore we pray thee that we may obtayne of [Page] thee pardon of our sinnes as the true and perfect fruite of this affi­aunce, thorough Iesus Christ our Lord,

Amen.

Domine exaudi.

PSALME. CXLIII. ‘¶ An earnest prayer for remission of sinnes, acknowledging that the ene­mies did thus cruelly persecute hym by Gods iust iudgement. He desireth to be restored to grace, to be gouer­ned by his holy spirite, that he maye spende the remnaunt of his life in the true feare and seruice of God.

HEare my praier O lord and consider my desire hearken vnto me, for thy truth & righteousnes sake.

And enter not into iudge­ment [Page] with thy seruaunt: for in thy sight shall no man liuyng be iustified.

For the enemy hath perse­cuted my soule, he hath smiten my life downe to the ground: he hath layd me in the darke­nes, as the men that haue bene long dead.

Therfore is my spirit vexed within me, and my hart with in me is desolate.

Yet doo I remember the tyme past, I muse vppon all thy workes, yea, I exercise my selfe in the workes of thy handes.

I stretch forth my handes vnto thee, my soule gaspeth vnto thee as a thirstie land.

[Page 84] Heare me (O Lord) and that soone, for my spirite waxeth faint, hide not thy face frō me least I be like vnto them that go downe into the pit.

O let me heare thy louyng kindnes betymes in the mor­nyng, for in thee is my trust, shew thou me the way that I should walke in, for I lift vp my soule vnto thee.

Deliuer me (O Lord) from mine enemies, for I flie vnto thee to hide me.

Teache me to do the thing that pleaseth thee, for thou art my god, let thy louyng spirite lead me forth into the land of righteousnes.

Quicken me O Lorde, for [Page 85] thy names sake, and for thy righteousnesse sake bryng my soule vnto thee.

And of thy goodnes slea myne enemies, and destroy all them that vexe my soule, for I am thy seruaunt.

A prayer taken out of the 143. Psalme.

WE do earnestly desire (O lord God) that thou wilt encline to our common petitions, and for thy truth and mercies sake heare the prayers that we poure out before thee. And we deny not that the sinnes wherwith we haue greuous­ly offēded thee, do not so deserue. But if thou wouldest deale with vs by extremitie of thy law & iudge­ment, [Page 86] and dryue vs to seuere trial, forasmuch as no mortall man, yea no creature, be the same neuer so pure and holy, were able to abide it, we also without doubte must nedes be condemned and not able to stand before thy iudgemēt seat in thy presence. It may therefore please thee with thine accustomed clemency and pity to behold how vehemently our ennemy pursueth our soules, wherby we are so vex­ed and ouercome, that our case se­meth litle to differ from the estate of the dead, so sore is our spirit ac­combred within vs, and our harte astonied. Yet do we wel remember of thy former and auncient mercy wherby thou art wont wondrous­ly to succour thine elect whē theyr cases are most dispaired. Where­fore now we doo not onely lift vp our handes, but also with all our [Page 87] hartes we crye to thee that thou wilt deliuer thy church frō thyne enemies, and so gouerne vs wyth thy good spirit, that hereafter we may accordyng to thy wil & good pleasure faithfully do those things that are vpright and holy, beyng brought out of this distresse, & re­uiued by thy strengthe and helpe through Iesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

An other out of the same Psalme.

SO great O Lorde, is our wante of righteousnesse, that all such as are well in structed with thy spirite, do well know how vnable we are to stande before thy iudgement. Therfore when we wey our deser­uinges, [Page 88] our spirite fayleth, and our harte is amased. But by and by we turne to thy mercy, and do confesse that our vnrighteous­nesse commeth not of our self, but is thy worke. Vpholden and en­couraged with thee, we flie to thy fauour in our perils of this lyfe. For vnlesse thou doo helpe vs, we plainly see our saluation past re­couerie. Shew vs the way wherein we may safely go, and teach vs the manner how to performe thy wyll, and with thy holy spirit that procedeth from thee, gouerne all our doings & thoughts, through Iesus Christ our lord, Amen. *§§*

❧ Here beginneth the Letany and Suffrages.

O God the father of heauen, haue mer­cy vpon vs mise­rable sinners.

O God the father of hea. &c.

O God the sonne redemer of the world, haue mercy vpon vs miserable sinners.

O God the sonne redemer of. &c.

O God the holy Ghost proce­ding from the father and the sonne: haue mercy vpō vs mi­serable sinners.

O God the holy Ghost proceding. &c.

O holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, thre persons and one [Page] God: haue mercy vpon vs mi­serable sinners.

O holy, blessed, and glorious. &c.

Remember not Lord our of­fences, nor the offences of our forefathers, neyther take thou vengeance of our sins. Spare vs good Lord, spare thy peo­ple whom thou hast redemed with thy most precious bloud, and be not angry with vs for euer.

Spare vs good Lord.

From all euill and mischiefe, from sinne, from the craftes and assaultes of the deuill, frō thy wrath, and from euerla­sting damnation.

[Page] Good Lord deliuer vs.

From all blindnes of hart, frō pride, vayne glory and hipo­crisy, from enuy, hatred, and malice, & all vncharitablenes.

Good Lord deliuer vs.

From fornicatiō and all other deadly sinne, and from all the deceites of the world, the flesh and the Deuill.

Good Lord deliuer vs.

From lightninges and tem­pestes, from plague, pestilence and famine, from battaile and murder, & from sodaine death.

Good Lord deliuer vs.

From all sedition and priuie [Page] conspiracie, from all false doc­trine and heresy, frō all hard­nes of hart, and contempt of thy word & commaundement.

Good Lord deliuer vs.

By the mistery of thy holy in­carnation, by thy holy Nati­uitie and circumcision, by thy Baptisme fasting and temp­tation.

Good Lord deliuer vs.

By thyne agony and bloudy sweat, by thy crosse and passi­on, by thy precious death and buriall, by thy glorious resur­rection and ascension, and by the comming of y e holy Ghost.

Good Lord deliuer vs.

[Page] In al time of our tribulation, in all tyme of our wealth, in the houre of death, and in the day of iudgement.

Good Lord deliuer vs.

Me sinners do beseche thee to heare vs O Lorde God, and that it may please thee to rule and gouerne thy holy Church vniuersally in the right way.

We beseech thee to heare vs good Lord.

That it may please thee to keepe and strengthen in the true worshipping of thee, in righteousnes and holynes of life, thy seruant Elizabeth our most gracious Queene and [Page] gouernour.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee, to rule her hart in thy faith, feare and loue, & that she may euer­more haue affiaunce in thee, and euer seeke thy honor and glory.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee to be her defender and keeper, ge­uing her the victory ouer all her enemyes.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee, to il­luminate all Bishoppes, Pa­stoures and ministers of the Church, wyth true know­ledge [Page] & vnderstanding of thy word: and that both by their preachyng and lyuyng they may set it forth and shew it ac­cordingly.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee to in­due the Lordes of the Coun­sell, and all the nobility, with grace, wisdome, and vnder­standing.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee, to blesse and keepe the Maie­strates, geuing them grace to execute iustice and to mayn­tayne truth.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

[Page] That it may please thee to blesse and keepe all thy people.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee to geue to al nations vnity peace and concord.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee to geue all thy people encrease of grace, to heare meekely thy worde, and to receiue it with pure affection, and to bring forth the fruites of the spirit.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth, all such as haue erred and are deceaued.

[Page] We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee to strenghthen such as do stand, and to comfort and helpe the weake harted, and to rayse vp them that fall, and finally to beate downe Sathan vnder our feete.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee to suc­cour, helpe, and comfort all that be in daunger, necessitie, and tribulation.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee to preserue all that trauell by land or by water, all women labouring with childe, al sicke [Page] persons and yong children, and to shew thy pitie vpon all prisoners and captiues.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee to de­fend and prouide for y e father­les children and widowes, and all that be desolate and oppressed.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee to haue mercy vpon all men.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee to for­geue our enemyes, persecutors and slaunderers, and to turne their hartes.

[Page] We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee to geue and preserue to our vse, the kindly fruites of the earth, so as in due tyme we may en­ioy them.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

That it may please thee to geue vs true repentance, to forgeue vs al our sinnes, neg­ligēces and ignorances, and to endue vs with the grace of thy holy spirite, to amend our liues according to thy holy worde.

We beseech thee to heare vs. &c.

¶ Sonne of God, we beseche thee to heare vs.

[Page] Sonne of God we beseech thee to heare vs.

O lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world.

Graunt vs thy peace.

O lambe of God that takest away the sinnes of the world.

Haue mercy vpon vs.

O Christ heare vs.

O Christ heare vs.

Lord haue mercy vpon vs.

Lord haue mercy vpon vs.

Christ haue mercy vpon vs.

Christ haue mercy vpon vs.

Lord haue mercy vpon vs.

Lord haue mercy vpon vs.

[Page]Our father which art. &c.

And lead vs not into tēptatiō: But deliuer vs from euill. Amen.

The virsicle.

O Lord deale not with vs af­ter our sinnes.

Aunswere. Neither reward vs after our iniquities.

Let vs pray.

O God, mercifull father, that dispisest not the sighing of a contrite hart, nor the desire of such as be sorowfull, mercfully assist our prayers that we make be­fore thee in al our troubles & aduersities whensoeuer they oppresse vs: and gratiously [Page] heare vs, y t those euils which the craft and subtiltie of y e De­uil or mā worketh agaynst vs may be brought to nought, & by the prouidence of thy good­nes they may be dispersed, that we thy seruauntes beyng hurt by no persecutions, may euermore geue thankes vnto thee in thy holy Church, tho­rough Jesu Christ our Lord.

O Lord arise helpe vs and deliuer vs for thy names sake.

O God, we haue heard wyth our eares & our Fathers haue declared vnto vs the noble workes y t thou didest in theyr dayes, and in the olde time be­fore them.

[Page] O Lord arise, helpe vs, and deliuer vs for thy honour.

Glory be to the father, and to the sonne, and to y e holy Ghost: as it was in the beginning, is now. &c. Amen.

From our enemies defend vs, O Christ.

Gratiously looke vpon our afllictions.

Pitifully behold the sorrowes of our hartes.

Mercifully forgeue the sinnes of thy people.

Fauorably with mercy heare our prayers.

O Sonne of Dauid, haue mercy vp­on vs.

Both now and euer vouchsafe [Page] to heare vs O Christ.

Gratiously heare vs O Christ, grati­ously heare vs O Lord Christ.

O Lord let thy mercy be she­shed vpon vs.

As we do put our trust in thee.

Let vs pray.

WE humbly besech thee, O father mercifully to looke vpon our infir­mities, and for the glory of thy names sake, turne from vs all those euils that we most righ­teously haue deserued: and graunt that in al our troubles we may put our whole trust and confidence in thy mercy, and euermore serue thee in ho­lines [Page] and purenes of liuing to thy honor and glory, through our onely mediatour and ad­uocate Jesus Christ our lord, Amen.

A prayer for the Queenes Maiestie.

O Lord our heauenly fa­ther, high and mighty, king of kings, Lord of Lords, the only ruler of Prin­ces which doest frō thy throne behold all the dwellers vpon the earth: most hartely we be­sech thee with thy fauour to beholde our most gracious so­ueraigne Lady Queene Eli­zabeth, & so replenish her with the grace of thy holy spirite, [Page] that she may alway incline to thy will, & walke in thy way. Indue her plentifully with heauenly giftes. Graunt her in health and wealth long to liue. Strēgthen her y t she may vanquishe and ouercome all her enemies, and finally after thys life, she may attaine euer­lasting ioy & felicitie, through Christ our Lord,

Amen.

In the tyme of any common plague or sicknes.

O Almighty God, which in thy wrath in y e tyme of king Dauid diddest slea with the plague of pesti­lence, three score and ten thou­sand, [Page] and yet remembring thy mercy, diddest saue the rest: haue pitie vpon vs miserable sinners, that now are visited with great sicknes and mor­talitie, that like as thou did­dest then commaunde thyne Aungell to cease from puni­shing: So it may please thee to withdraw frō vs this plague and greuous sicknes through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

A prayer of Chrisostome.

ALmighty God which hast geuen vs grace at this tyme with one ac­corde to make our common supplications vnto thee, and doost promise, that when two [Page] or three be gathered together in thy name thou wilt graunt theyr requestes: fulfil now (O Lord) the desires and petiti­ons of thy seruauntes, as may be most expedient for them, graunting vs in this worlde knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come, life euer­lasting,

Amen.

¶ In time of sicknes.

MOst mercifull rede­mer, thou art alwais merciful, who art al­waies the Sauiour, whether y u doest send health or sicknes, wealth or aduersitie, [Page] ioy or sorow. For it is of great mercy whē by outward afflic­tions (as it were by bitter, but yet wholsome medicines) thou doest heale y e inward diseases of the soule: and by temporarie troubles, which do last but for a short time, doest prepare vs to eternall ioyes which endure for euer. And thy self, O grati­ous Sauiour, passing into thy glory through the greatest af­flictions of thys worlde hast trodē out vnto vs by thy steps, that way to true and perfect felicitie, in the which no hum­ble and true seruant ought ey­ther to disdaine or to shrincke, to followe after hys Lord and Master so going before hym. [Page] But for so much as without thee we can doe nothyng that good is, I besech thee to endue me with thy heauenly grace, that I may take vp willingly & obediently thys crosse which thou hast appoynted vnto me, and folow after thee: and that I may drinke of, as it were this medicinable cup, though bitter vnto y e flesh, which thou the heauenly phisitian doest thus offer vnto me, patiently without grndging or murmu­ring agaynst thee: and that I may with thy faithfull seruant Job and with vnfayned lips and hart, say: the Lord hath geuen, the Lord hath taken a­way: as it hath pleased the [Page] Lorde, so is it come to passe: blessed be the name of y e Lord. For if I haue receiued gladly, youth, health, riches, honour, and ioy, at thy handes O lord, why should I refuse patiently to take age, sicknes, aduersitie, and sorrowe at thy handes also? These thinges be in dede very greuous vnto fraile na­ture and fleshe: but thou my Lorde, though most perfectly innocent, infinitely hast suf­fered more greuous thinges for me, and I haue deserued infinitely more greuous thin­ges, who haue so oft deserued hell. But yet thou knowest the frailtie of our humane conditi­on and nature. Wherefore I [Page] besech thee, as thou pourest sharpe wine into our woūdes to bite away the corruption of our sinnes, so after the exam­ple of the mercifull Samari­tane set forth in thy holy Gos­pell, to resemble thy selfe, adde vnto the sharpe wyne of thy correction, the suppling oyle of thy mercifull comfort, wherby I may be able to suffer things, which otherwise are intolera­ble vnto me. And if it bee thy pleasure to encrease sorow vp­on me, encrease also thy grace and gift of patience in me, and turne these worldly and bodi­ly afflictions to the profite of my soule, by mine acknowled­ging of thy iustice in punishing [Page] me worthely, and thy mercy in correcting me graciously, euen like as a father hath pitie vpon hys children whē he bea­teth them, and by my submit­ting of my owne will vnto thy holy will, & patiently taking of this thy prouing and trying of me, whether I loue thee or no, may offer that sacrifice of obedience which is acceptable vnto thee. And when thy fa­therly pietie shall be contented with thy meeke chastising of me, then I besech thee send calme after thys tempest, qui­etnes after thys trouble, and ioy after thys sorrow: that I may render thākes vnto thee for double causes, both that [Page] thou hast first corrected and a­mended me an vnprofitable seruaunt, and afterward hast taken away the bitternes of affliction with the softnes of thy comfort, in the one hauing regard of necessitie, in y e other not forgetting my infirmitie, and in both as in all thinges alwaies remembring thy mer­cy: vnto the which I doe com­mend and betake my self both body and soule, now and for e­uer. Vnto thee with the father and the holy ghost, one God of most excellent maiestie, be all prayse, honour, and thankesge­uing, for euer and euer, Amē.

¶ An other in sicknes.

ALmightie God and most mercifull father, who doest correct all those whō thou doest receaue, bringing euen vnto the very gates of death, and yet redu­cing backe againe: I besech thee that as thou hast with thy sharpe visitation and greuous sicknes already corrected me thy disobedient seruaunt, so thou wilt also after thys thy fatherly correction, mercifully relieue and restore me if it may so stand with thy gratious goodnes, euen as thy beloued sonne our Sauiour Jesus Christ vppon earnest sute and [Page] prayer (as in hys holy Gospell is mentioned) relieued, and re­stored vnto health the rulers sonne, being in extreme sick­nes and at the very poynt of death: which my most humble sute I likewise entirely make vnto thee most mercifull fa­ther, in the name of y e same thy dearlybeloued sonne our Sa­uiour Jesus Christ, who liueth and reigneth with thee and the holy Ghost world with­out end,

Amen.

¶ In time of sicknes.

O Most mightie & most mercifull Sauior Je­su Christ, y e onely sonne [Page] of the liuing God, who being here vpon the earth amongest mortall men, by the healing of all diseases, and pardoning of the sinnes of such as put theyr trust in thee, diddest declare vnto the world that thou art that onely heauenly and per­fect Physition, as well of our soules as of our bodyes: and when such as trusted in theyr owne righteousnes did lay it to thy charge as a fault, that thou diddest keepe company with sinners, thou diddest ex­pressely testifie, that not such as were in health, but such as were sicke had nede of y e Phy­sitian. Beholde O heauenly Physitian, here in me a matter [Page] most worthy of thy diuine cure, most meete to shew both thy power and mercy vppon. Behold a person sore oppressed both with the sickenes of my soule and body. Beholde me thy handmaiden vpon whom from my tender yeares vnto thys day, thou hast heaped so great & so many, and almost infinite benefites of thy grati­ous goodnes, whom being borne of a king and Queene, thou hast not onely endued with giftes of grace, meete for a kingdome, but also hast deli­uered me from many & great daungers, out of the handes of my enemies, & from y e snares of death which they had set [Page] for my life, hast exalted me vn­to the dignitie of a Queene, and placed me in the high e­state of honour amongest mor­tall persons, and that not through any my deseruyng, but onely of thy free goodnes and mere liberalitie. But now O Lord, either lest too much worldly prosperitie should ca­ry my minde astray and cause me to forget my selfe and my boūden dutie towardes thee, or els for that I being by thee made a Queene ouer thy peo­ple, haue neuer as I ought to doe from my hart acknowled­ged and confessed my self to be the subiecte and handmaiden of thy Maiestie, neither beha­ued [Page] my selfe towardes thee accordingly, as became thy bond maiden, neither being thankfull towardes thee, as my most gratious Sauiour, nor obedient vnto thee, as my most dreadfull Lord, or els for other causes vnto thy diuine wisedome best knowen: now I say, eyther wholesomly to admonish, or most iustly to pu­nishe thy disobedient seruant, and so gratiously to correcte and amend me, thou hast stric­ken me with a greuous sick­nes of my body, and very daū ­gerous vnto my life, and also troubled & abashed my minde with terrours and anguishes of my soule: and withall thou [Page] hast by my daunger sore fligh­ted and amased thy people of England, whose safetie & qui­etnes next after thee, seemeth to stay vppon me aboue all o­ther worldly creatures, and vpon my life and continuance amongest them. Wherfore as well I as thy people cōmitted▪ vnto me, bowing the knees of our hartes before thy maiestie, do hūbly besech thee most gra­tious Sauiour, in thy iudge­ment to remember thy mercy, and according to thy accusto­med goodnes, to deliuer me thy handmaiden from thys present perill of daungerous sicknes. And first O heauenly Physitian, I besech thee heale [Page] my soule, pardoning my vn­kindnes towardes thee, forge­uing my forgetfulnes of thee and of my selfe, & vtterly blot­ting out and putting cleane a­way all other my sinnes com­mitted agaynst thy Maiestie. Heale my minde, reforming and instructing me with thy heauenly grace, that I may take thys sicknes, which thou hast most iustly punished me withall, contentedly and paci­ently, as a bitter, but whole­some medicine of all y e diseases of my minde offered vnto me by thee, as it were by y e handes of the best Physician. And withall heale my body also making it sound and pure frō [Page] all infirmities, & remnantes of sicknes, y t I may be throughly cured by the hauing of a whole minde in a whole body: and that I hauing obteyned per­fect health of both by thy only benefite, not onely my self, but also all thy people of England with me may both be taught by the perill past, hereafter to geue due reuerence and obedi­ence vnto thy maiestie, and for the deliuerie from so great a daunger, and benefite of per­fect health, may magnifie thy goodnes and mercy with per­petuall prayses and continuall thankesgeuing: who with thy heauenly father, and the holy Ghost are one immortall and [Page] most glorious God, to whom belongeth all Empyre, power, and maiestie worlde without end.

Amen.

¶ A Prayer to be sayd after sicknes or any other kinde of crosse or affliction.

ALmightie & most mercifull father, I thy poore creature & worke of thyne handes acknow­ledge and confesse vnto thee my manifolde sinnes and of­fences, which I frō my youth vp vnto thys day haue cōmit­ted agaynst thee in thought, [Page] word, and deede, & am taught and moued by thy worde and grace to be hartely sory for the same, beseching thee for Jesus Christ thy deare sonnes sake, to haue mercy vpon me, and to forgeue me all these myne of­fences, according to thy great mercy and promise, which hast sayd: At what time so euer a sin­ner doth repent him of his sinne frō the bottome of hys hart, I will put all hys wickednes out of my remem­braunce. Ezech. xviij.

O Lord, I confesse that I was borne in sinne, and con­ceaued in wickednes, and am by nature a childe of wrath: for in my fleshe dwelleth no good thyng, and of my selfe I [Page] am not able to thinke a good thought, much lesse to do that thou in thy lawe requirest of me, which hast sayd: Cursed is he that continueth not in all thinges that are written in the lawe, to doe them. Again, thy law is spiritu­all, but I am carnall, sold vn­der sinne. Therfore O Lorde, I come vnto thee for grace, (which hast sayd: Aske & ye shall haue, seeke and ye shall finde, knocke and it shall bee opened vnto you) to preuent and draw my will vnto all goodnes: for none can come vnto thee except he bee drawen: and except we bee borne from aboue we can not see the kingdome of God.

Therfore O Lorde renue in [Page] me a right spirite, that I may receaue strength and ablenes to do thy righteous will. Assist me with thy grace, that I may be strengthened with power in the inward man, and be ar­med with thy holy armour, which is the brestplate of righ­teousnes, the shield of fayth, the hope of saluation for an helmet, and the sworde of the spirit, which is thy holy word, that I may stand perfect in all that is thy will, and bee found worthy through Christ, to re­ceaue the crowne of life which thou hast promised to all them that loue thee.

Graunt that I may euer de­sire & will that which is most [Page] pleasing and acceptable to thy will.

Thy will be my will, & my will be alwayes to follow thy will.

Let there be euer in me one will and one desire with thee, and let me neuer desire to will or not to will, but as y u wilt.

Graunt me that aboue all things I may rest in thee, and fully quiet and pacifie my hart in thee: for thou Lord art the true peace of the hart, and per­fect rest of the soule.

Thou knowest Lord what is most profitable and expedi­ent for me: wherfore do with me in all thynges as it shall seeme best vnto thee: for it [Page] may not be but well that thou doest, which doest most iustly and blessedly dispose all things after thy most godly wisdome.

Graunt vnto me O Lorde, that I may esteeme all things in this world as they be, tran­sitory and soone vanishing a­way, & my self also with them, drawing towardes my end: for nothing vnder the Sunne may long abide, but all is va­nitie and affliction of spirite.

O Lorde God which art sweetenes vnspeakable, turne in to bitternes to me all tran­sitory and earthly delightes which may draw me from the loue of eternall thinges.

Blessed are they that for the [Page] loue of thee set not by the plea­sures of thys world, but cruci­fie the fleshe & the lustes therof, so that in a cleane and pure conscience they may offer their prayers vnto thee and be ac­cepted to haue company with thee and thy blessed Angels.

O euerlasting light, send down y e beames of thy bright­nes, and lighten the inward partes of my hart.

Open my hart that I may beholde thy lawes, and teach me to walke in thy commaun­dementes.

Beholde my weaknes (O Lorde) and consider my frail­nes best knowen vnto thee.

I couet to cleaue fast to hea­uenly [Page] thinges, but worldly af­fections and tentatiōs plucke me backe: they dayly rebell and suffer not my soule to liue in rest.

Which although they draw me not alway to consent, yet neuertheles their assaultes be very greuous vnto me.

Oh what a life may this be called, where no trouble nor misery lacketh? where euery place is full of snares of mor­tall enemies?

For one trouble or tempta­tion ouer passed, an other cō ­meth by and by, and the fyrst conflict yet during, a new bat­taile sodeinly ariseth.

Tedious it is to me to liue [Page] in such battell: but I perceaue such conflictes are not vnprofi­table for me, whilest I know my selfe and mine infirmities the better, and am therby com­pelled to seke helpe at thy hād.

It is good for me O Lord, that thou hast thus exercised and humbled me, that I may learne to dread thy secrete and terrible iudgementes, which scourgest euery child that thou receauest, which woūdest and healest, which bringest downe to the gates of hell, & bringest backe againe.

I yelde thee thankes there­fore that thou hast not spared my sinnes, but hast punished me with scourges of loue, and [Page] hast sent affliction & anguishe within and without.

Of grace and fauour it is, O Lord, that thou sufferest thy seruauntes to be troubled and afflicted in this world, because they should not be condemned with the world.

Thou wouldest that they should here be broken with af­fliction, that they may after rise in a new light and be cla­rified and made glorious in thy kingdome.

Oh holy father thou hast or­dained it so to be, & it is done as thou hast appoynted.

Wherefore O Lorde, geue me the grace to rest in thee a­boue all thinges, and to quiet [Page] my hart in thee aboue all crea­tures, aboue all glory and ho­nour, aboue all dignitie and power, aboue all health and beautie, aboue all riches and treasure, aboue all ioye & plea­sure, aboue all fame and praise, aboue all mirth and consolati­on that mans hart may take or feele besides thee. For y u Lord art most good, most wise, most righteous, most holy, most iust, most blessed, most high, most mightie, most cōfortable, most beautifull, most louing, most glorious, in whō all treasures of goodnes most perfectly rest.

And therfore what soeuer I haue besides thee, it is nothing vnto me: for my hart may not [Page] rest nor fully bee pacified but onely in thee.

Oh Lorde Jesu, who shall geue me winges of perfecte loue, that I may flie vp from these worldly miseries, and rest with thee?

Of Christ the king of euer­lasting glory, my soule cryeth vnto thee with cōtinuall gro­ninges, and sayth: how long taryeth my Lord God to come to me?

Oh whē shall the end come of all these miseries?

When shall I be cleane de­liuered from the bondage of sinne?

When shall I Lorde, haue my minde onely fixed on thee, [Page] and be mery in thee with per­fect ioy and gladnes?

Whē shall that blessed houre come that thou shalt visite me and make me glad with thy blessed presence, when thou shalt be to me all in all?

When shall I come vnto thee and feele and enioy those sweete consolations, which with thy blessed Sainctes are alwayes present?

When shall I haue peace without trouble, peace with­out and peace within, and on euery side stedfast and sure?

Oh Lorde Jesu, when shall I stand and beholde thee, and haue full sight and contempla­tion of thy glory?

[Page] When shall I be with thee in thy kingdome that y u hast ordayned for thine elect people before the beginning?

Oh blessed mansion of that heauenly Citie: Oh most cleare day of eternitie, whom y e night may neuer darken.

Thys is the day alwayes cleare and mirry, alwaies sure and neuer chaunging.

Thys day shineth clearly to thy Sainctes in heauen (oh gracious God) with euerla­sting brightnes: but to vs here on earth (so great is the dark­nes of sinne in vs) it shineth obscurely, & as it were a farre of: we see but a glimmering therof.

[Page] Would to God thys day might shortly appeare & shyne vnto vs, and that these world­ly vanities were at an end.

Thy heauenly Citizens know and feele how ioyfull thys day is: but we the chil­dren of Eue, straūgers and ex­iles here on earth, doe lament and bewaile the bitter tedious­nes of thys present lyfe, short and euill, full of sorrowe and anguishe:

Where man is oftentimes defiled with sinne, encumbred with afflictiō, vnquieted with troubles, lapped in cares, bu­sied with vanities, blinded with errours, ouercharged with labours, vexed with ten­tations, [Page] ouercome with vayne delightes and pleasures of the world, and miserably wrap­ped in many kindes of cala­mities.

Wherfore O Lord arise and helpe me: comfort mine exile: asswage my sorrowe: destroy the power of mine enemies, the kingdome of sinne, Sa­than, the world, and my wic­ked flesh, which alwaies make battaile against me, and bring these conflicting dayes to an end: so shall I sing prayses vn­to thee, O God of my saluati­on, & magnifie thy holy name world without end, Amen.

Certayne sentences taken out of the scripture.

Of the kingdome of God, and how all kinges ought to seeke his glory.

Psalme. 10. b. 16.

GOd is king for euer and euer, but the heathen shal perish out of the land.

Psalme. 11. b. 5. 6. 7.

God will trie the righte­ous but his soule abhorreth the vngodly, and him that de­lighteth in wickednes. Upon the vngodly he will rayne snares, fire and brimstone, and tempestes, stormes shalbe their portion and drinke. For God most righteous, loueth righ­teousnes, his countenance wil [Page 2] beholde the iust.

Micheas. 4. b. 7.

The Lord himselfe shalbe their king vppon the mount Sion from this tyme for e­uermore.

Esay. 33. d. 22.

The Lord is our iudge, the Lorde is our lawe geuer, the Lord is our king, and he him­selfe shalbe our Sauiour.

Psalme. 47. a. 1.

Clappe your handes all ye people, make a noyse vnto the Lord with a ioyful voyce. For God is high and terrible, he is the great king vpon all the earth. He will subdue the peo­ple [Page 3] vnder vs: and the nations vnder our feete. He hath cho­sen for vs our inheritaunce, the glory of Jacob, whom he loued. The Lord ascendeth in a triumph (and) God with the sounde of a trumpet. Sing Psalmes to the Lorde, sing Psalmes, sing psalmes, to our king, sing Psalmes. For the Lord is king of all the earth, sing Psalmes (all you that haue) skill. God reigneth ouer the heathen: God sitteth vpon his holy throne. The Princes of the people are assembled to­gether (for to be) the people of the God of Abraham: for the fieldes of the earth be Gods, who is highly exalted.

Psalme. 146. 6. 10.

God thy Lorde shall raigne O Sion, to the worldes end, throughout all generations. Prayse ye the Lord.

Psalme. 68. a. 4. 5. b. 8. 12. c. 17. 18. 19. 20. 32.

Sing vnto the Lord, sing Psalmes vnto his name: mag­nifie hym that rideth vpon the heauens as it were vpon an horse in hys name euerlasting and reioyce before his face. He is a father of the fatherles, and the iudge of widowes (he is) the Lord in hys holy habitati­on. The earth shooke, and the heauens dropped at the pre­sence of the Lord, euen Sinay [Page 5] it selfe shooke at the presēce of the Lord, Lord of Israell. Kinges with their armies did flie, they did flee, and the orna­ment of an house deuided the spoyle. The charettes of the Lord are twenty thousand, euen thousandes of Aungels, and the Lord is among them in holy Sinay. Thou wenst vp on hie, y u hast led captiuitie captiue, y u hast receaued giftes for men: yea euen (for) those that be disobedient, that God the Lord might dwell (among them). Blessed be the Lord, who day by day powreth hys (benefites) vpō vs: and is God of our saluation. The Lord is our Lord for to saue vs: and [Page 6] all maner of wayes for death pertayneth to God the Lord. Sing vnto the Lorde, O ye kingdomes of the earth. O sing Psalmes vnto the Lord, who rideth vpon the most highest eternall heauens: loe he sendeth out a mighty voyce in hys voyce. Acknowledge the Lorde to be mighty: hys maiesty is ouer Israell, and might in the cloudes. O Lord thou art terrible out of thy ho­ly places: the God of Israell geueth might, and strēgth vn­to hys people. Blessed be the Lord.

Psalme. 44 a. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Thou art my king O God, [Page 7] commaund that Jacob be sa­ued. Through thee we will ouerthrow our enemyes: and in thy name we wyll treade them vnder that rise against vs. For I will not trust in my bow, and it is not my sworde that can saue me. But it is thou that sauest vs from our enemyes: and thou puttest thē to confusion that hate vs. We make our boast of God all the day long, and we will confesse thy name for euer.

Psalme 45. a. 6. b. 7. 10. 11. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.

Thy throne O Lord endu­reth for euer and euer, the scep­ter of righteousnes is the scep­ter [Page 8] of thy kingdome. Thou hast loued iustice, and hated vngodlines: wherfore y e Lord euen thy Lord hath anointed thee with the oyle of gladnes more then thy fellowes. Har­ken O daughter and consider, incline thyne eare: forget also thine owne people and thy fa­thers house: so shall the kyng haue pleasure in thy beutie: for he is thy Lorde, and worship thou hym. The kings daugh­ter is all glorious within, her clothing is of wrought golde. She shalbe brought vnto the king in raymēt of nedle work: the virgins that follow her, and her cōpany shalbe brought vnto thee. With ioy and glad­nes [Page 9] shal they be brought (and) shall enter into the kinges pa­lace. In steede of thy fathers thou shalt haue childrē: whom thou mayst make princes in all landes. I will remember thy name from one generatiō vn­to an other: therefore shall the people praise thee, world with­out ende.

Psalme 48. b. 9.

O Lorde according to thy name, so is thy prayse vnto the worldes ende, thy right hand is full of iustice.

Psalme. 99.

God raigneth, the people be in a rage: he sitteth (betwene) [Page 10] the Cherubins, the earth qua­keth. God is great in Sion, and high aboue all people. They shall prayse thy name, great and dreadfull (for) it is holy, and a kings power (that) loueth iudgement. Thou hast ordayned all things according to equitie: thou hast caused iudgement and iustice to be in Jacob. Magnifie God our Lord: and kneele downe be­fore hys foote stoole, for it is holy. Moses and Aaron a­mong his Priestes, and Sa­muell among such as call vp­pō hys name: these called vp­pō god, and he heard them. He spake vnto them out of the cloudy piller: for they kept his [Page 11] testimonies, and the law that he gaue them. O God our Lord thou heardest them, O Lord thou didest forbeare thē: and thou tookest auengement for their owne inuentions. Magnifie God our Lord, and kneele downe before hys holy hill, for God our Lord is holy.

Psalme 100. a.

Be ye ioyful in God all that be in y e earth: serue God with gladnes, and come before hys face with a ioyfull noyse. Be ye sure that God is the Lord, it is he that hath made vs, and not we our selues: we are hys people, and the sheepe of hys pasture. Goe your way into [Page 12] his gates with thanksgeuing, and into hys courtes wyth prayse, be thankefull vnto him and blesse his name. For God is gracious, his mercy is euer­lasting, and his truth from ge­neration to generation.

Psalme. 101. a.

I will syng of mercy and iudgement, I will sing vn­to thee O God Psalmes. I will endeuor my selfe to be ful­ly instructed in the way of perfectues: when thou wylt come vnto me, I will goe vp and downe in the midst of my house in the perfectnes of my hart. I will neuer set before myne eyes any deuilish thyng: [Page 13] I will detest to do the worke of transgressours, it shall take no holde of me. A froward hart shall depart from me. I will not once know any euill. I will destroy hym who priui­ly slaundreth hys neyghbour: I wyll not suffer hym who hath a proude looke, & a great stomacke. My eyes shalbe vp­pon such in the land as haue a true meaning, that they may sit with me: he that leadeth a perfect life shall minister vnto me. There shall no deceitfull person haue any seate in my house: He that telleth lyes shal not tary long in my sight. I wyll euery morning destroye all the vngodly in the land: [Page 14] that I may roote out from the Citie of God all workers of wickednes.

Psalme. 145.

I wil magnify thee O God my king, and I will blesse thy name for euer and euer. I wil blesse thee euery day, and I wyll prayse thy name for euer and euer. Great is God and most worthy to be praysed: and hys greatnes can not be searched out. One generation shall prayse thy workes vnto an other: and they shall de­clare thy mighty power. I wil set forth in wordes, y e glorious maiesty of thy excellentnes, and thy wondrous workes. I [Page 15] wil also declare thy greatnes so that men shall speake of the force of thy terrible actes. They shall vtter out of theyr mouth a memoriall of thyne a­boundant kindnes: and they shall sing of thy righteousnes. God is gratious and merci­ful, loth to be angry, and great in louing kindnes. God is good vnto euery man, and his mercy is aboue al his workes, All thy workes shall confesse it vnto thee O God, and thy saintes shall blesse thee. They shall shew y e glory of thy king­dome: and talke of thy power. That they may make knowne to the children of men hys ma­nifolde power, and the glori­ous [Page 16] maiesty of hys kingdome. Thy kingdome is an euerla­sting kingdome, and thy do­minion endureth throughout all ages. God vpholdeth all such as fall, and lifteth vp all those that be bowyng downe­ward. The eyes of all wayte vpon thee, and thou geuest thē theyr meate in due seasō. Thou openest thy hand, and satisfiest the desire of euery thyng. God is righteous in all his wayes: and holy in all hys workes. God is nigh vnto al them that call vppon hym, vnto all such as call vpon hym in truth. He wyll fulfill the desire of them that feare hym: he wyll also heare theyr cry, and he wyll [Page 17] saue them. God preserueth all those that loue him, but he wil bring to nothing such as be vngodly. My mouth shall speake the prayse of God: and all fleshe shall blesse hys holy name for euer and euer.

Luke. 1. d.

Christ shall raigne in the house of Jacob for e­uer, and of his king­dome there shal be none ende. §§

Promises, admo­nitions and counsels to good kinges, with exam­ples of their good suc­cesse.

Deut. 7. d. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

THen thou shalte make hym kyng ouer thee, whom the lord thy God shall chose. Euen one from among thy brethren shalte thou make kyng ouer thee, and thou mayst not set a straunger ouer thee, which is not of thy brethren. But he shall not multiply horses to himselfe, nor bryng the people [Page 19] agayne to Egipt to increase the number of horses: foras­much as the Lorde hath sayde vnto you, ye shall henceforth go no more agayne that way. Also he ought not to multiply wyues to hymselfe, least hys hart turne away, neyther shal he gather hymselfe siluer, and golde to much. And when he is set vpō the seat ofhys king­dome, he shall write hym out a copye of thys lawe in a booke before the Priestes y e Leuites: And it shall be wyth him, and he ought to read therein al the dayes of his life, that he may learne to feare the Lorde hys God, and to keepe all y e words of this lawe, and these ordi­naunces [Page 20] for to do them: And that his hart arise not aboue his brethrē, and that he turne not from y e cōmaundement to the right hand or to the left: but that he may prolong hys dayes in hys kingdome, he and hys children in the midst of Israell.

The wordes of Iosua to the people.
Iosua. 24. c. 14. d. 20.

THe Lorde hath geuen vnto you a land flow­ing with milke & hony.

Now therefore feare the Lorde and serue hym in per­fectnes and truth, and put a­way the Gods which your fa­thers [Page 21] serued on the otherside of the floud, and in Egipt, and serue ye the Lorde. If ye for­sake the Lord, & serue strange Goddes, he wyll turne and do you euill, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. And the people sayd vn­to Josua: Nay, but we wyll serue the Lord. And Josua sayde vnto the people: ye are witnesses against your selues, that ye haue chosen you the Lord to serue hym. And they sayd we are witnesses. Then put away (said he) y e straunge Gods which are among you, and bow your hartes vnto the Lorde God of Israell. The people sayd vnto Josua: The [Page 22] Lord our God will we serue, and his voyce will we obey. And Israell serued the Lorde all the dayes of Josua, and all the dayes of the elders that o­uerliued Josua, and which had knowen all the workes of the Lord, that he had done for Israell.

¶ Admonitions out of the word of God.
‘¶ The wordes of the Lord to his ser­uaunt Iosua captayne of hys people Israell, and by hym to all the godly Princes, Kinges and Queenes. &c.’ Iosua. 1. a. 5. b. 6. 7. 8. 9.

THere shal not a man be able to withstand thee in all the dayes of thy. [Page 23] life. For as I was with Mo­ses so will I be with thee, and will not sayle thee, nor forsake thee. Be strong therefore and bolde, for vnto thys people shalt thou deuide the land for inheritaunce, which I swore vnto their fathers to geue thē. Onely be thou strong, and of a stout courage, that thou mayest obserue and do accor­ding to all y e law which Mo­ses my seruaunt commaūded thee. Turne from the same, neyther to right hand, nor to the left, that thou mayest doe wisely in all that thou takest in hand. Let not the booke of this lawe departe out of thy mouth, but occupy thy mynde [Page 24] therein day and night, that thou mayest obserue and doe according to all that is writ­ten therein: For thē shalt thou make thy way prosperous, and thē thou shalt do wisely. Haue not I commaunded thee that thou shouldest be strong and hardy, and not feare, nor be faint harted? For I the Lord thy God am with thee whe­ther soeuer thou goest.

Exodus. 15. a. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. &. b. 11. &. 15. c. 18. &. d. 21.

I will sing vnto the Lorde for he hath triumphed glori­ously, the horse and hym that rode vppon hym hath he ouer­throwen in the sea. The Lord [Page 25] is my strength and prayse, and he is become my saluation: he is my God, and I will glorify him, my fathers God, and I will exalt hym. The Lord is a man of warre, the Lord is his name. Pharaos charetes, and his host hath he cast into the sea, his chosen captaynes also are drowned in the redde sea. The deepe waters haue coue­red thē, they sunke to the bot­tom as a stone. Thy right hād Lord is become glorious in power, thy right hand Lorde hath al to dashed the enemies. And in thy great glory thou hast ouerthrowen them that rose vp against thee: thou sen­dest forth thy wrath which cō ­sumed [Page 26] them euen as stubble. Who is like vnto thee O Lord amongst Goddes? Who is like to thee, so glorious in holines, fearefull in prayses, shewing wonders. The Lorde shall raigne for euer & euer. Sing ye vnto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his ryder hath he ouer­thrown in the sea.

For sickenes.
Exodus. 15. d. 26.

IF thou wilt harken vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God, and wylt do that which is right in his sight, and [Page 27] wilt gene eare vnto his com­maundementes, and keepe all his ordinaunces, then will I put none of these diseases vpō thee, which I haue brought vpon the Egiptians for I am the Lord that healeth thee.

2. Chronicles. 2. a. 5. 6. b. 11. &. 9. b. 8.

Great is our God aboue all Goddes. But who is able to builde hym an house? when that heauen, and heauen a­boue all heauens is not hable to receiue hym, what am I then that shoulde builde hym an house? nay, but euen to burne sacrifice before him shal this building be. The Lorde [Page 28] setteth a wyse kyng ouer the people whome he loueth, that they may longe endure and prosper. Blessed be the Lord thy God which hast lust to thee, to set thee (king) on his seat, that thou mightest be king for the Lord thy God, because thy God loueth Isra­ell (and hath delite) to make them continue euer, therefore made he thee king ouer them, to do right and equitie.

Exodus 18. c. 18. d. 21. d. 23.

Thou canst not alone su­staine the burthen of ruling a whole kingdome, but heare my wordes and counsell, and the Lord shalbe with thee.

[Page 29] Moreouer thou shalt seeke out among all the people men of actiuitie, and such as feare God, true men, hating couete­ousnes, & place (of these) ouer y e (people) rulers of thousandes, rulers of hundrethes, rulers offifties, and rulers of tennes. And let them iudge the people at all seasons: and euery great matter that commeth, let thē bring vnto thee, but let them iudge all small causes them­selues, and so shall it be easier for thy selfe, & they shall beare a burthen with thee. If thou shall do this thing and God charge thee withall, thou shalt be able to endure, and yet the [Page 30] people shal come to theyrplace in peace.

1. Reg. 12. b. 13. 14. 15. &. c. 20. &. d. 24. 25.

Samuel said vnto the peo­ple. Beholde the king whome ye haue chosen and whom ye haue desired, loe y e Lorde hath set a king ouer you. If ye will feare the Lord and serue hym and heare hys voyce, and not disobey the word of the Lord, both ye and the king that raig neth ouer you shall follow the Lord your God. If ye wyll not harken vnto the voyce of the Lord but disobey y e Lordes mouth, then shall the hand of the Lord be vppon you and on your fathers. Yet depart not [Page 31] from following of the Lord, but serue the Lorde wyth all your hartes. Therefore feare ye the Lord, and serue him in the truth, and with all your hartes: and cōsider how great thinges he hath done for you. But if ye do wickedly, then shall ye perishe both ye and yourking.

The wordes of Samuell to be truely spoken by all good rulers.

1. Reg. 12. a. 3. 4. 5.

BEholde here I am, beare recorde of me before the Lorde, and before hys annoynted: whose Oxe haue I taken? or whose Asse haue I takē? who [Page 32] haue I done wrong to? whom haue I hurt? or of whose hand haue I receaued any bribe, to blind myne cyes therewith? and I wil restore it you. They sayde. Thou hast done vs no wrong, nor hurt vs, neyther hast thou taken ought of any mans hand. He sayd vnto thē agayne: The Lord is witnes agaynst you, and his annom­ted, is witnes this day, that ye haue founde naught in my handes. And they aunswered: he is witnes.

1. Reg. 13. b. 13. 14.

Samuell sayde to Saule: Thou art become a foole, thou hast not kept the commaunde­ment [Page 33] of the Lorde thy God, which he commaunded thee: For at this tyme woulde the Lord haue stablished thy king dome vppon Israell for euer. But now thy kingddme shall not continue: The Lord hath sought him a man after hys owne hart, and the Lord hath commaunded to be captayne ouer his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commaunded thee.

2. Reg. 14. b. 9. 11. c. 17. &. d. 20.

The king and hys throne should be giltlesse, and ought to remember the Lorde hys God, and not to suffer much bloudshed.

[Page 34] The king is as an Angell of God in hearing of the good and bad, therefore the Lorde God is with hym.

The king is wise according to the wisedome of an Angell of God, to vnderstand all thinges thac are in earth.

2. Paral. 9. b. 7. 8.

Happy are the mē and peo­ple vnto whom God geueth a wise king.

God maketh one a king that he shoulde do according to right and equitie.

Esay. 32. a. 12.

A good and godly king shal gouerne after the rule of righ­teousnes, [Page 35] and the princes shall rule according to the balance of equitie. And that man shall be vnto men as a defence for the winde, and as a refuge for the tempest, like as a riuer of water in a thirsty place, and the shadow of a great rocke in a dry land.

Ieremy. 22. a. 1. &c. b. 9.

Thus sayth the Lorde: Goe downe into the house of the king of Juda, & speake there these wordes, and say: Heare the word of y e Lord thou king of Juda that sittest in y e king­ly seat of Dauid, thou and thy seruaunts, and thy people that goeth in & out at these gates. [Page 36] Thus the Lord commandeth? keepe equitie and righteous­nes, deliuer the oppressed frō the power of the violent, do not greue, nor oppresse the straunger, the fatherles, nor the widow and shed no inno­cent bloud in this place. And if ye keepe these thinges faith­fully, then shall there come in at y e dore of thys house kinges to sit vpon Dauides seat: they shalbe caried in charetes, and ride vppon horses, both they and their seruaunts, and their people. But if ye will be obe­dient vnto these commaunde­mētes. I sweare by my owne selfe saith the Lord, this house shalbe wast. For thus hath [Page 37] the Lord spokē vpon y e kinges of Juda: thou Giliad art vnto me y e head of Libanus: shall I not make thee so wast as y e Ci­ties y t no men dwell in? I wyl prepare a destroyer w t his we­pōs for thee, to hew down thy especial Cedar trees, & to cast them in the fire. And all the people that goe by thys Citie shall speake one to an other: wherefore hath the Lord done thus vnto thys noble Citie? Then shall it be aunswered: because they haue broken the couenaunt of the Lorde theyr God, and haue worshipped & serued straunge Gods.

Psalme 18. 48.

[Page 38] God hath wonderfull oft deliuered hys kyng, and he hath done mercifully vnto Dauid his annoynted, and to hys seede for euermore.

Psalme. 24. a. 1. 2. &. b. 7.

The earth is Gods, and all that therein is: the world and they that dwell therein. For he hath layde the foundations of it vppon the seas, and he hath set it sure vppon the floudes. Lift vp your heades O ye gates, and be ye lift vp ye e­uerlasting dores, and the king of glory shall enter in. Who is the king of glory? It is God both strong and mighty, it is God mighty in battayle. Lift [Page 39] vp your heades (O ye gates) and be ye lift vp you euerla­sting doores, and the king of glory shal enter in. Who is the king of glory, euen the God of hostes, he is the king of glory.

Psalme. 21. a. 1. &c.

The king ought to reioyce in thy strength, O God, and he ought to be exceeding glad of thy saluation. Thou hast geuen hym his hartes desire, and hast not denyed hym the request of hys lippes. For thou hast preuented him with good blessinges, and hast a crowne of pure golde vppon hys head, He asked life of thee, and thou gauest hym long dayes, euen [Page 40] for euer and euer. Hys honour is great through thy saluatiō: thou hast layd glory and great worship vppon hym. For thou hast placed him to be blessings for euer, and hast made hym glad with the ioy of thy coun­tenaunce. Because the kyng trusteth in God, and in y e mer­cy of the most highest: he shall not miscary. Thyne hand will finde out all thyne enemyes: thy right hand will finde out them that hate thee. Thou wilt make like a burning for­nace in tyme of thy fury: God will destroy thē in hys wrath, and fire shall consume them. Thou wilt roote their fruite out of y e earth, and their seede [Page 41] from among the children of men. For they intended mis­chife against thee, and imagi­ned a crafty deuice: (but) they could not (bring it to passe) Therefore thou wilt put them to flight (and) direct thine ar­rowes against their faces. Be thou exalted O God accor­ding to thyne owne might: so we wyll sing: & with Psalmes we will prayse thy power.

Psalme. 72.

O God geue vnto the king thy iudgements: and thy righ­teousnes vnto y e kinges sonne. Then he will iudge thy people according vnto iustice, and thy afflicted according to equitie. [Page 42] The mountaynes also & hilles shall bring peace to the people by the meanes of righteous­nes. He will iudge the afflic­ted amongst the people, he wil saue the children of the poore, and subdue y e oppressor. They will feare thee as long as the sunne and moone shineth from one generation to an other. He will come downe lyke the rayne into a fleece of wolle, e­uen as the dropes that water the earth. In hys dayes the righteous shal flourishe▪, and there shall be aboundaunce of peace so long as the moone en­dureth. Hys dominion also shall be from the one sea to the other, and from the floud vn­to [Page 43] the end of the earth. They that dwell in the wildernes, shall kneele before hym, his e­nemyes shall licke the dust. The king of Tharsis and of the Iles shall offer presentes: the king of Sheba and Seba shall bring giftes. All kinges will worship hym, all nacions will do him seruice. For he wil deliuer the poore when he cry­eth, and the afflicted, and hym that hath no helper. He wyll haue compassion vpon y e poore and nedy: and he wil preserue the soules of the poore. He will deliuer their soules frō deceite and oppressiō, and their bloud shall be in hys sight. He wyll liue, and he wyll geue to the [Page 44] poore of the golde of Sheba: and he wyll pray alwayes for hym, and dayly he wyll blesse hym. A handfull of corne shall (be sowed) in the earth, vpon the toppe of hilles, and y e fruit thereof shall make a noyse like Libanus, and shall flourishe in the Citie lyke grasse vppon the earth. Hys name shall en­dure for euer, hys name shall be spread abroad to the world, so long as the sunne shal shine, all nations shall be blessed in hym, and shall call him blessed. Blessed be God the Lord: the Lorde of Israell which onely doth wonderous things. And blessed be the name of his ma­iesty for euer: and all the earth [Page 45] shalbe filled with his maiesty,

Amen, Amen.
Psalme. 80. a. 1.

Heare O thou shepheard of Israell, thou that leadest Jo­seph lyke a sheepe: and thou that sittest vppon the Cheru­bins, shewe thy gratious pre­sence.

Romaynes. 5. d.

They shall raigue through Jesus Christ, receauing aboundance of grace, and gifte of righ­teousnes. §*§

Sentences of threate­ning to euill kinges, and ex­amples of their euill successe.

1. Reg. 15. 10. d. 16. 17.

THe woorde of the Lorde came vnto Samuell saying. It repenteth me that I haue made Saule king. For he is turned from me, and hath not perfor­med my commaundementes. And Samuell was euill a­paid, and cryed vnto the Lord all night. And Samuell rose early to meete Saule in the mornyng, and when he came vnto him he said. Let me tell [Page 47] thee what the Lord hath sayd to me this night. And he sayd vnto him say on. Samuel said when thou wast little in thine owne syght, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israell, and the Lord annoin­ted thee king ouer Israell?

Ieremy. 13. c. 18. 19.

Tell the king & the Queene humble your selues, sitte you downe low, for your dignitie shall be throwen downe, and the crowne of your glory shall fall from your head. The Ci­ties towardes the south shalbe shut vp, and no man shal open them, all Juda shall be caried away captiue so that none shal [Page 48] remayne.

Ieremy. 21. d. 11.

Unto the house of the kyng of Juda say thus: Heare the worde of the Lorde. O thou house of Dauid, thus sayth the Lord: Minister righteousnes and that soone, deliuer the op­pressed from violent power, or euer my terrible wrath breake out like a fire, and burne so y t no man may quench it because of the wickednes of your ima­ginations. Beholde sayth the Lorde I will come vpon thee that dwellest in the valleyes rockes and fieldes, and say, tush who wil make vs afraid? or who wyll come into our [Page] houses. For I will visite you (sayth the Lord) because of the wickednes of your inuētions, and will kindle such a fire in your wood, as shall consume all that is about you.

Prouerbes. 28. a. 2. c. 15. 16. 21.

For the wickedues of the land the Prince is oft chaun­ged: but through a man of vn­derstanding and wisdome a realme endureth long. As a roaring Lion and an hungry beare, so is an vngodly Prince ouer the poore people. Where the Prince is without vnder­standing, there is great op­pression and wrong: but if he hateth coueteousnes, he shall [Page] long raigne. To haue respect of persons (in iudgement) is not good, for that man wyll do wrong, yea euen for a peece of bread.

Psalme. 2. a. 2. 4. 5. 10. 11. 12.

The kinges of the earth stand vp and the rulers take counsell together against God and agaynst hys annointed. He that dwelleth in heauen will laugh them to scorne, the Lord will haue them in deri­sion. Then wyll he speake vn­to them in hys wrath: and he will astonish them with feare in hys sore displeasure. Thou shalt brast them with a rod of yron, and breake thē in peeces [Page] like a potters vessell. Where­fore be you now well aduised, O ye kynges: be ye learned ye that are iudges of the earth. Serue ye God in feare, and reioyce ye wyth trembling. Kisse ye the Sonne least that he be angry, and so ye perishe from the way. If hys wrath be neuer so little kindled, bles­sed are all they that put theyr trust in hym.

Ieremy. 13. b. 11. 2. Parallepo. 3. [...].

Saule, Roboam, Achab, with all their posteritie, Sel­lam, Jehoakim. 4. Reg. 13. c. 24. a. Ieremiae. 22. c. 18. came vn­to an euill end.

[Page] Dauid, Salomon, Jehose­phat, Ezechias, Josias, &c. Godly kinges raigne prospe­rously, haue victory ouer their enemies.

Lamentation of Ieremy. 2. b. 9

The goodly Citie and tem­ple of Jerusalem are destroyed vtterly: the king and Princes are caryed away to the Gen­tiles, they haue neyther lawe nor prophetes, nor yet any vi­sion from the Lord. The Se­natours of the daughter Si­on sit vpon the ground in si­lence: they haue strawed ashes vpon their heades, and girded themselues wyth sackecloth: the maydens of Jerusalem [Page] hang downe their heades to the ground.

Iudicium. 9. c.

King Abimelech being wic­kedly chosē and wicked, wor­keth hys owne destruction, and destruction of those that did chuse hym.

Luke. 19. c.

Those Citizens that wyll not haue Christ to raigne ouer them are destroyed.

Luke. 19. c.

The king asketh an ac­compt of hys ser­uauntes. §*§

❧ A prayer taken out of the booke of Wisdome. Cap. 9

O God of my fathees, and Lorde of mercies (thou that hast made all thinges with thy worde, and diddest ordayne man through thy wisdome, that he should haue dominiō ouer thy creatures whiche thou hast made, and that he should or­der the world according to ho­lines and righteousnes, and that he shouid execute iudge­ment with a true harte) geue me wisdome which is euer a­bout thy seate, and put me not out from among thy children: [Page] for I thy seruaunt and hand­maiden am a feable person, of a short tyme, and to weake for the vnderstandyng of thy iudgementes and lawes. And though a man be neuer so per­fect among the chyldren of men, yet if thy wisdome be not with him, he shall be of no va­lue. O sende her out therefore from thy holy heauens, and from the throne of thy Maie­stie, that she may be with me, and labour with me, that I may know what is accepta­ble in thy sight: for she know­eth and vnderstandeth all thinges, and she shall lead me soberly in my workes, and preserue me in her power. So [Page] shall my workes be accepta­ble by Christ our Lorde, to whome wyth thee and to the holyghost, be all ho­nour & glory, worlde without ende. Amen. ⸫

Ʋn bref formulaire d'Oraison.

¶ La Preface.

O Seigneur bon Dieu & Pere, que ton nom soit benit à iamais. Dis­pose mon coeur, ouure mes leures, & me conduis par ton saint Es­prit, à vne vraye recognoissance de toutes mes fautes, à fin que mō Oraison soit exaucée de toy au Nom de ton filz Iesus Christ. Ainsi soit-il.

¶ La Confession des pechez.

SEigneur mon Dieu, Pere eternel & tout­puissant, ie recognoy & confesse deuant ta sainte & haute Maiesté, que ie [Page] n'ay cessé depuis ma naissance, & ne cesse tous lesiours, estant conceuë & née en iniquité & corruption, de transgresser tes commandemens. Quoy faisant, ie ne puis selon ton iuste iuge­ment, euiter ruine & perdition: Toutesfois ayāt desplaisir de t'a­uoir offensé, condēnant & moy, & mon peché: puis qu'il t'a pleu de nous aymer, lors mesme que nous estions tes ennemis, en tes­moignage dequoy tu nous as donné ton filz vnique, & bien aymé, pour mediateur & aduo­cat entre toy & nous, nostre Sei­gneur Iesus Christ, auec promes­se d'obtenir en son Nom, tout ce que nous te demanderons.

Vueille donc Dieu tresbe­nin [Page] & pere misericordieux en son Nom & en sa faueur me fai­re pardon & mercy. Et en repur­geant mon coeur de toute vani­té & souillure, m'addresser & cō ­duire par tō saint Esprit, en tou­tes mes voyes, à fin que ie che­mine selon tes saints & diuins commaundemēs tous les iours de ma vie, à la gloire de ton Nō, Par iceluy ton filz bien-aymé. Ainsi soit-il.

¶ L'oraison pour le Matin.

MOn DIEV mon Pere & mon Sauueur, comme maintenant tu enuoye ton Soleil sur la terre, pour don­ner la lumiere corporelle à tes [Page] creatures, vueille aussi illuminer mon coeur & mon enten demēt, par la lumiere celeste de tō saint Esprit: à fin que ie ne pense, ne dise, & ne face rien sinon pour te seruir & complaire. Que du­rant tout ce iour mon but prin­cipal soit de cheminer en ta crainte, te seruir & honorer, at­tendant tout heur & prosperité de ta seule benediction. Que se­lon mon corps & mon ame tu sois mon protecteur, me forti­fiant contre toutes les tentatiōs du diable, & de la chair, me preseruant des entreprinses & conspiratiōs de tous mes enne­mis, leurs complices & adherēs.

Et d'autant bon Dieu que ce n'est rien de bien commencers [...] [Page] on ne perseuere, qu'il te plaise, nō seulemēt pour ce iour me re­ceuoir sous ta conduite & prote­ctiō, mais pour tout le cours de mavie: continuāt & augmētant de iour en iour les dōs & graces de ton saint Esprit en moy ius­ques à ce qu'estant vnie & con­iointe auec ton filz vnique, mon Sauueur, ie puisse iouir de ceste vie bien-heureuse laquelle tu as promise à tous tes eleuz. Parice­luy ton filz, nostre Seigneur Ie­sus-Christ. Ainsi soit-il.

¶ Action de Graces.

DIeu tout bon & tout sage, Pere celeste, plein de misericorde & clemēce, reduisant [Page] en memoire les oeuures de tes mains, ie ne puis sinon admirer ta grande sapience & bonté infi­nie, laquelle tu as declarée en­uers toutes tes creatures, & sin­gulierement au regard de moy, comme de m'auoir donné estre, mouuement, & vie: mais aussi outre les benefices infinis, que tu distribue cōmunément à tous hommes de la terre, tu m'as fait tant de graces speciales, qu'il m'est impossible de les reciter, ne mesme les pouuoir comprē ­dre. Il t'a pleu par la lumiere de ton Euāgile me deliurer des te­nebres d'erreur & d'ignorance, voire me retirer des abismes de de mort, & de la confusion hor­rible, ou i'estoye destinée selon [Page] la corruption de ma nature: & ainsi m'as tu transportée au roy­aume de ton filz bien-aymé, le­quel selon ton plaisir & decret eternel, s'est donné soy mesme pour mes pechez.

Il ya aussi Seigneur, que m'ay­ant receuë en tō Eglise au nom­bre de tes enfans, tu m'as eleuë & choisie par ta prouidence ad­mirable pour me decorer sous la Maiesté de ta grandeur d'vn estat d'honneur & d'excellence, assauoir de la dignité Royale pour le gouuernemēt & conser­uation de ton peuple.

Or maintenāt selon la parole de Dauid, quelle chose rēdrayie au Seigneur pour tous ses biē ­faitz enuers moy? Ie say que tou [Page] te ma vie deuroit estre consacrée à vne perpetuelle action de gra­ces; pour annoncer auec la gent sainte & le peuple acquis, les vertus de celuy qui nous à ap­pellez des tenebres à sa merueil­leuse lumiere. Le calice de deli­urāce ne deuroit bouger de mes mains, n'y les Cantiques nou­ueaux de ma bouche. Mais Sei­gneur, fay moy la grace, comme iadis tu as faite à Dauid, homme selon ton coeur. Lequel traitant de ce mesme Argument, & reci­tantles tesmoignages de ta bon­té, disoit, Ainsi est-il Seigneur, Ie suis ton seruiteur, Ie suis ton seruiteur filz de ta chambriere, tu as rompu mes liens, Ie te sa­crificeray sacrifice d'actiō de gra­ces [Page] reclameray le nom du Sei­gneur. Ainsi di-ie Seigneur de moymesme, & ce par ta grace, Iesuis ta seruante, Ie suis ta ser­uante. Tu as rompu mes liens, & m'as preseruée au milieu des dā ­gers de mort, tu m'as mis au lar­ge & en sauueté. Au Roy des sie­cles, immortel & inuisible, à Dieu seul bon & seul sage, soit hon­neur & gloire és siecles des sie­cles par Iesus Christ son filz no­stre Seigneur. Ainsi soit-il.

Oraison pour tout le Royaume & corps de l'Eglise selon leurs Estas & membres.

DIeu tout puissant, Pe­re celeste, tu as donné commandement à tes fideles de prier les vns pour les autres, auec promesse [Page] de les exaucer au Nom du me­diateur ton filz bien-aymé.

Moy donc ton humble ser­uante en confiance de tes pro­messes, & en consideration des necessitez si grandes & si vrgen­tes, qui se presentent de toutes pars, Sathan faisant tous ses ef­fors pour mettre la terre en con­fusion, & sur tout pour empes­cher le cours de ton Euangile. Seigneur bon Dieu auquel est mon refuge & mon esperance, ie te supplie & requiers comme tu és le Pere des lumieres, qu'il te plaise d'illuminer les coeurs & les entendemens de tous hom­mes, d'autant que tu veux toutes gens estre sauuées, & venir à la cognoissance de verité. Et cōme [Page] specialemēt tu as ordōné qu'on prie pour les Rois & tous ceux qui sont constituez en dignité, à fin que la societé humaine viue en paix & tranquillité auec tou­te pieté & honnesteté.

Moy donc sachant combien les courōnes & les sceptres sont pesans, & l'administratiō d'iceux difficile, pour s'en bien acquit­ter, soit au regard de toy, mon Dieu, ou de mes subiectz, Ie te requiers de tout mon coeur, tant pour moy, que pour tous autres que tu as constituez en ce mes­me degré de prééminence, de nous donner, ce que iadis t'a de­mandé vn Salomon, duquel tu as approuué l'Oraison, comme l'ayant mise en son coeur, & en sa [Page] bouche par ton saint Esprit, le­quel nous apprend de bien prier aydant noz infirmitez.

O Seigneur bon Dieu tu m'as fait regner au milieu de ton peu­ple, tu donneras à ta seruante & à tes seruiteurs vn coeur enten­du pour iuger tō peuple, & pour discerner le bien d'entre le mal, à fin que nous ne soyons point inutiles, ou mesme pernicieux en vne vocation si sainte.

Donne nous aussi des Con­seillers prudens sages & vertu­eux, chassant loing de nous, tous ambitieux, malins, cauteleux, & hypocrites.

Donne des Iuges, hommes veritables haissans auarice, & fuyans l'acception des person­nes, [Page] à fin que mon peuple soit gouuerné en toute equité & droiture, les bons soustenus en leur Iustice & innocence, les ini­ques punis & chastiez selō leurs demerites.

Fay aussi Seigneur que tous ceux, desquelz tu m'as commis la charge en main, me rendent le deuoir d'vne iuste obeissance, à fin qu'il y ait vne bonne & sainte vnion entre le chef & les mem­bres, & que par ce moyen tous cognoissent que de toy seul de­pend l'Estat des Royaumes & le gouuernemēt des republiques. Et que par ainsi ie puisse à iamais chanter à ta louenge le Cātique de Dauid, ou il proteste de faire le deuoir de bon Prince.

PSEAVME. c 1.

VOuloir m'est pris de mettre en escriture,
Pseaume parlant de bonté & droiture,
Et si le veux à toy mon Dieu chanter, Et presenter.
¶ Tenir ie veux la voye non nuisible,
Quand viendras-tu me rendre Roy paisible?
D'vn coeur tout pur conduiray ma maison. Auec raison.
¶ Rien de mauuais y voir n'auray enuie.
Car ie hay trop les meschans & leur vie:
Vn seul d'entr'eux autour de moy adioint. Ne sera point.
¶ Tout coeur ayant pensée desloyale,
Deslogera hors de macour Royale:
Et le nuisant n'y sera bien venu. Non pas cognu.
¶ Qui par mesdire à part son prochain greu [...]
Qui à coeur gros & les sourcils esleue:
L'vn mettray bas, l'autre souffrir pour vray. Ie ne pourray.
¶ Mes yeux seront fort diligens à querre.
Les habitans fideles de la terre:
Pour estre a moy. Qui droite voyeira. Me seruira.
¶ Qui s'estudie à vser de fallace,
En ma maison point netrouuera place:
De moy n'aura mensonger ne baueur. Bien ne faueur.
¶ Ains du pays chasseray de bonne heur [...],
Tous les meschans, tant qu'vn seul n'y demeure,
Pour du Seigneur nettoyer la Cité, D'iniquité.

[Page] Ie te prie aussi Pere veritable & Sauueur pour tous ceux que tu as ordonnez vrays Pasteurs à tes fideles & ausquelz, tu as commis la charge des ames, & la dispensation de ton sacré Euan­gile que tu les conduise par ton saint Esprit, à fin qu'ilz soyent trouuez fideles & diligēs en leur sainte vocation.

D'autrepart que tu chasse les faux Pasteurs, hommes corrom­pus d'entendement, loups pe­sans, ambitieux, & auaricieux, qui ne seruent qu'à destruire & perdre tes Eglises.

Et d'autant que tu requiers en tous tes enfans le zele de ta mai­son, fay moy la grace de repur­ger en mō peuple toutes sectes, [Page] heresies, & superstitiōs, à fin que tes Eglises soubz ma charge pro­fitent & accroissent de iour en iour en la verité de ton Euangi­le à toute iustice & sainteté.

Que generalement il te plai­se de faire vne deliuerance & re­stauration de tes Eglises par tou­te la terre, enuoyer ouuriers à ta moisson, hommes idoines & suf­fisans pour recueillir les poures brebis esgarées soubz la houlet­te de ce grand pasteur des ames ton filz Iesus Christ.

Quant aux auditeurs ceux qui desia font profession de ton Nom que tu leur donne vne vraye perseuerance en foy, en charite, & en toutes bonnes oeu­ures pour la gloire de ton Nom, [Page] & à leur salut.

Quant aux autres qui chemi­nent encore en la vanité de leur sens que tu touche leurs coeurs & leur donne des yeux illumi­nez, à fin que tous se rengent pour te seruir & complaire.

Finalement ô Dieu de toute consolation, ie te prie d'auoir pi­tié des calamitez & afflictions de toutes tes creatures en general. Des peuples que tu visite par pe­stes, guerres ou famines. Des personnes que tu afflige par po­ureté, prison, maladie, bannisse­mēt, ou autres tes verges, soit en leurs corps ou en leurs esprits.

Et singulierement que tu aye pitié de tes eleuz qui souffrent & endurent pour le tesmoigna­ge [Page] de ton saint Euangile.

Et cōme il t'a pleu me faire ce bien, & cest honneur, de donner repos en ma terre, estans les au­tres Royaumes en horribles cō ­fusions, & que tu m'as enuoyé les entrailles de ton filz Iesus Christ, pour leur donner refuge en leurs oppressions: fay moy la grace d'estre vraye nourrissiere & tutrice des tiens selon la pa­rolle de tō Prophete Isaye, pour auoir vne vraye compassion tant de ceux qui sont icy, que de tous autres, à fin qu'en l'accomplisse­ment de tes promesses, lors que la parolle sera dite, Venez les be­nits de mon Pere, possedez le Royaume qui vous à estè prepa­ré des la fondation du monde, [Page] que lors tu me reçoiue. Pere ce­leste, au nombre de tes enfans, pour l'amour de ton filz, mon Sauueur Iesus Christ. Auquel auec toy & le saint Esprit soit honneur & gloire eternellemēt.

Amen.

¶ L'oraison pour le Soir.

SEigneur mon Dieu, mō Pere, & mon Sauueur me prosternant en tou­te humilité deuant ta sainte Ma­iesté, ie te requiers biē affectueu­sement, comme tu m'as fait la grace d'estre paruenuë à la fin de ce iour, d'autant que tu as creé la nuit pour le repos des hom­mes que tu me face ce bien auectes autres benefices infinis de [Page] tellemēt reposer ceste nuit pour le soulagement de mon infirmi­té, que mon coeur estant tous­iours esleué à toy, mon ame ait aussi bien son repos spirituel, cō ­me le corps prend le sien.

Que mō dormir ne soit point excessif, pour complaire outre mesure à l'aise de ma chair, mais seulement pour la necessité de ma nature, à fin que demain ie soye mieux disposée à tō seruice.

Preserue moy aussi de toute souilleure de corps & d'esprit, & me garde des tentations de l'en­nemy, & contre tous dāgers qui me pourroyent auenir.

Et pource que ce iour n'est point passé que ie ne t'aye offen­sé en plusieurs sortes & manie­res, [Page] comme tu enuoye mainte­nātles tenebres en l'absence du Soleil pour cacher toutes cho­ses, ainsi vueille effacer toutes mes offenses par ta misericorde infinie, à fin que iamais elles ne viennent en compte deuant ton iugement.

Toutes lesquelles choses ie te requiers & demande au Nom & en faueur de ton filz vnique mon Seigneur & Sauueur Iesus Christ, comme luy-mesme nous à donné la reigle de te prier.

NOstre Pere qui es és cieux.

Ton Nom soit sanctifié. Ton regne aduienne. Ta volonté soit faicte, en la Terre comme au Ciel. Donne nous auiourd' huy, nostre Pain quotidien. Et nous [Page] pardōne noz offences, ainsi que nous pardonnons à ceux qui nous ont offencé. Et ne nous in­duy point en tētation: mais de­liure-nous du mal. Car à toy est le regne, la puissance, & la gloire, és siecles des siecles. Ainsi soit il.

¶ Oraison pour faire deuant la consultation des affaires du Royaume.

O Seigneur nostre bō Dieu qui contem­ple d'enhaut tout ce qui est au Ciel & en la Terre, duquel le throne est admirable & la gloire incomprehēsible, deuant lequel la congregation des An­ges se tient en crainte.

[Page] Nous ton humble seruante & tes seruiteurs estansicy assem­blez en ta presence, pour trai­ter & aduiser aux affaires qui cō ­cernent la vocation sainte à la­quelle tu nous as appellez par ta grace, cognoissans que tu sou­stiens & conserue sous la con­duite de ta prouidence l'estat & gouernement de tous les Roy­aumes de la terre, & que c'est à toy de presider au milieu des Princes en leur conseil.

D'autre part recognoissans que nous sommes enuironnez de tenebres, remplis d'erreurs & d'ignorāces, & mesme indignes de ton assistence si tu regardes à nos iniquitez.

Pour ces causes bon Dieu, [Page] nous te prions au nom de ton filz vnique nostre Seigneur Ie­sus Christ de nous pardonner toutes nos offenses, & pour l'a­mour d'iceluy nous communi­quer les dons & graces de ton saint Esprit, à fin qu'estans poul­sez du vray zele de ta gloire, & d'vn amour paternel enuers le peuple que tu nous as donné en charge. Nous puissiōs auec pru­dence & sagesse traiter les cho­ses qui maintenant seront pro­posées.

Dispose donc Seigneur nos bouches, nos coeurs, & nos en­tendemēs, nous faisant cognoi­stre les choses que tu approuue pour les embrasser, & discerner les mauuaises pour les decliner [Page] & chasser.

D'auantage que tu tienne tel­lement la main à toutes nos de­liberations, que tu nous en face veoir vne heureuse issuë, à la gloire de ton Nom, au bien & profit de nostre peuple, & à la descharge de nos consciences.

Ce que te demandons hum­blement en la faueur de ton filz bien-aymé, comme par luy som­mes enseignez de te prier.

Nostre Pere qui es. &c.

¶ Priere.

O Gouuerneur, de la machine ronde,
Toy qui as mis, les fondemens du monde,
Et le depars, ainsi que bien tu vois,
[Page] A tous humains sans recueillir leur voix
Tu hausses l'vn, & l'aultre tu rabaisses,
Cil qui languit, en peine tu redresses,
Et le fais Roy, si tel tu le veulx estre.
Ainsi m'as fait: ô mon Dieu & mon maistre,
En me tirant, hors de prison cruelle,
Prison du Corps, & de peine eternelle,
L'vne ou i'estoye, pour mes pechez cōmis
Des ma ieunesse, & me les as remis:
Et l'aultre estoit, pour auoir verité,
En amour prise, & mensonge quitté,
Pour suyure Christ, ainsi tu m'as tirée,
Par ta main forte, & à toy retirée,
En me donnant, ceste grand' Royaulté,
Range moy donc, à ce qu'as decreté,
Force, Conseil, auec saine doctrine,
Pour bien guider, le peuple que domine,
Ottroye moy: aussi par ta bonté,
Ne prens point garde, à mon iniquité.
❧ Fin des Prieres en Françoys.
‘¶ I0 T'HO FATTO NO­to il mio peccato, e non ho coperto la mia iniquità: ho detto, [...]o con­fesserò le mie trasgressioni al Signo­re, etu hai leuata l'iniquità del mio peccato.’ SALMO. 32.

Confession de'pecca­ti, al Signore.

IDdio et Signor mio. Humilmentè, & con animo pieno d'infini­to dispiacere d'hauerti offeso, & d'offenderti tutto di, io humil serua tua, et pecca trice, mi presento dinanzi la tua di­uina maestà per confessare ingenua­mente, & liberamente i miei pecca­ti, et chiedertene perdono. Sono, come [Page] sai, concetta, & nata in peccato, dal­l'istessa massa di corruttione uenu­ta, onde è tolto tutto l'human lig­naggio: trouomi sempre piena di cattiui affetti, & non fo mai cosa che buona sia, oue il tuo santo spirito mi guidi, ma ogni hora piego alla terra, & al male, oue mi tira il peso graue di questa carne. Le occasioni d'offenderti per l'altezza del luogo oue m'hai posto, per le ricchezze, per gli agi, et per gli honori, sono molte, & molte, Infiinitè le tentationi, con­tinue, & vrgentissime: la mia car­ne è fragile si, che non fo altro che errori, & graui peccati dinanzi à te Dio mio, onde sento sopra di me l'ira tua giusta insino allultima conden­natione. Dall'altra parte hauendo­mi [Page] mi tu piantato, per infinita tua mi­sericordia vna viua fede nel cuore, che Cristo è la mia vera e certa sa­lute, & che per lui è riceuuta ogni a­nima lauata nel suo sangue, dalla tua pietà: ecco che vengo con sicur­ta, et certa fede a trouar perdono ap­presso il tribunal della misericordia tua per esso Giesu Cristo. Riceui dun que ti prego padre benigno questa tua figliuola, che viene all' vbidien­za paterna: raccogli pastore amo­reuole questa pecorella errante, che torna al' tuoouile, & guarisci medi­co celeste, tutte le piaghe dell'anima mia con la medicina della tua gra­tia: assicurandomi prima nella con­scientia mia, che tutti ï peccati essen domi rimessi, io sia pacificata con es­so te, & appresso con lo spirito tuo ri­nouandomi, [Page] & sanctificandomi og­ni di, meni questa vita, che mi resta in santità, & giustitia nel tuo cospet to, e della tua chiesa, fin che mi chi­ami alla gloria di vita eterna, la quale aspetto, & attendo sicu­ramente per Giesu Cristo Signor mio, cui sia hono­re & gloria perpetu­amente. Amen. *§§*

[Page] ¶ CHIUNQUE ADO­ra Iddio con diletto, sarà riceuuto, & la sua preghiera s'anuicinerà in sino alle nuuole. L'oratione di chi si humilia penetrerà le nuuole.’ ECCLESIASTICO. 32.

Oratione prima come creatura di Dio.

RIconoscendo Signo­re, com'io sono tua crea­tura, creata ad imagine & Somiglianza tua, o­pera eccellente delle tue mani sopra tutte l'altre creature, io te ne rendo gratie infinite, e ti prego humilmen te, che ti piaccia far ch'io habbia con tinuamente cura & riguardo di nō isuilire, nè imbratare questa tua [Page] santissima imagine, ristoratami per Giesu Cristo: anzi conseruandola pura & sincera d'ogni affetto carna­le, riluca innanzi gli occhi di tutti lo splendore del tuo volto, c'hai spar so sopra di me, alla gloria tua, per Giesu Christo.

Amen.

Oratione seconda, co­me Cristiana, e Regina.

IDdio padre, et pro tettor mio, Grande­mente mi sento debi­trice alla tua clemen­tia, hauendomi à bu­on'hora chiamata per la predicatio­ne dell Euangelio di Giesu Cristo alla vera pietà, & sincerità della tua [Page] religione, affine che con l'autorità, che m'hai dato, & co'l zelo, di che ti sono debitrice, fossi istrumento tuo di ripiantare, e stabilire in questa parte del mōdo, oue t'è piaciuto ch'io à nome tuo regni, la tua pietà et san­tissima religione. Pregoti Dio mio, & buon padre, che si come in parte con la gratia tua ho seruito in que­sto alla tua santa volontà, cosi ti pi­accia di torre ogni impedimento, e resistenza d'infideltà dal mio papo­lo, et à me di bene in meglio inspirar buona volontà, & ardente zelo, dan domi mezzi efficaci, istrumenti at­ti & sufficienti, accio possa, si come desidero, spiantando ogni maluagio seme d'empietà, spargere, seminare, & radicare il tuo santo Euangelio in tutti i cuori, aggrandendo per [Page] tutto questo regno tuo terreno, quel celeste di Giesu Cristo, al quale sia sempre honore & gloria. Cosi sia.

Oratione terza per l'amministratione della Giustitia.

VLtimamente Id­dio supremo Re, & Signor mio: Io con­fesso, che molto grande fra le gran­dezze terrene, è l'honore, & la dignità in che tu m'hai posta, et posta, & mātenutamici miracolosamente, cō ­seruandomi, et liberandomi da mol­ti mali, & pericoli d'huomini catti­ui. Riconosco che se fin qui con alcu­na [Page] prudenza, vigilanza, giustitia equità, misericordia & in pace ho amministrato l'ufficio, che tu mi hai imposto, tutto è stato dono della tua paterna bontà con esso me. Or'io ti prego caramente, che tipiaccia per­seuerare, tenendomi le mani di so­pra, humiliandomi sotto il tuo im­perio, à cui io sono serua, & dammi che questa corona, che mi hai posto in capo, io la tenga sempe sotto i tuoi piedi: e lo scettro regale postomi nelle mani serua alla gloria tua, alla giustitia & equità del tuo popolo, alla pace, et concordia del Regno. Sia l'intelletto della tua serua chiaro & giusto, la volontà sincera, i giudici equi, & pij. Dammi Signore aiuti, consegli, & ministri abbastanti, retti, & sufficienti, pieni di pietà, & [Page] del tuo santissimo timore, sieno i po­poli fideli, e disciplinabili. Perche io, e tutto il mio gregge viuendo in trā ­quillità, & pace, habbiamo agio, & tempo quieto di seruire alla tua ma­està: pregandoti, & supplicandoti di tutto cio per Giesu Cristo Sig­nor mio, e tuo vnigenito figli­uolo, al quale con esso te, & con lo spirito santo sia honore & gloria e­ternamente. Co­si sia.

❧ Primera oracion.

‘* MVCHAS SON LAS tribulaciones de los justos, pe­ro el Sen̄or los libra de todas ellas.’ PSAL. 34.

DIos mio y Pa­dre mio dulcissimo, cuya bondad es in­finita, cuya miseri­cordia nunca se puede agotar, y cuya boca siempre dize verdad: porque tu eres la mesma ver­dad que has prometido a los que en ti creen, à los que en ti confi­an y ponen su esperança librar­os, ampararlos y ser les Padre [Page] en todas sus necessidades assi temporales como espirituales: y esto lo has cumplido con la obra ni mas ni menos que tu lo has prometido de palabra: como lo testifican muy muchos testimo­nios de tu sagrada Escriptura. Assi libraste à Noe del di­luuio, à Abrahan de los Chal­deos, à Lot de Sodoma, à Iacob de las sangrientas manos de su proprio hermano Esau, à Da­niel del lago de los Leones y d Sufanna del falso testimonio de aquellos dos malditos viejos y i­niquos iuezes. Yo tu humilde sierua me prostro, O Dios mio, [Page] O Padre mio delante del thro­no de tu diuina Magestad, y te doy gracias infinitas, gracias quan grandes yo puedo, porque me has hecho vna del numero de aquellos que tu libraste de grandes afliciones: que me li­braste de las crueles manos de mis enemigos, los quales como lobos hambrientos me pretendi­an chupar la sangre y tragar me biua. Teniā me vn tal odio, por (que) yo ponia en ti solo toda mi esperança, porque yo no me a­uergonçaua del Euangelio de tu amantissimo Hijo: mas antes me honraua del, como aquella [Page] que tenia por cierto el Euange­lio ser potentia tuya para dar salud à todos los que creen. Ple­gate O Dios mio, dar me gracia que yo no me oluide de vn tan insigne beneficio y merced: no permitas que la buena yerua de gratitud y agradescimiento que tu Magestad ha plantado en el jardin de mi anima, la ahoguen las espinas: las quales son la so­licitud y cuydado de las cosas temporales, y el engan̄o de las riquezas. Haz Sen̄or, que de tal manera yo las possea, que yo sea sen̄ora dellas, y no ellas de mi, que yo siempre estè apareja­da [Page] para las emplear en tu serui­cio. Todo esto te demando en el nombre de tu Hijo Iesu Christo: el qual es mi Dios, mi Sen̄or y mi Redemptor. Amen.

❧ Segunda oracion.

‘* DA ATV SIERVA vn coraçon entendido para iuz­gar à tu Pueblo, y para discer­nir lo bueno de lo malo: Porque quien podra iuzgar este tu pue­blo el qual es tan grande en multitud?’ 1. REG. 3.

SEn̄or Dios todo poderoso y Padre mio amantissimo, (que) por tu admirable bondad y im­mensa misericordia has querido hazer à mi pobre pecadora hija de Adan, instrumento de tu gloria, instrumento con que tu [Page] seas glorificado constituyendo me por cabeça y gouernadora deste tu opulentissimo Reyno en estos tan infelicissimos tiem­pos, en que tu yglesia vnica espo sa tuya es en tan gran manera oprimida de la tyrania de Sata­nas y de sus ministros, ten por bien assistir me con tu sancto Espiritu, el qual es Espiritu de sabiduria y de inteligencia, E­spiritu de cōsejo y de fortaleza, Espiritu de sciencia y de temor tuyo, para que yo tu sierua tēga coraçon entendido que pueda discernir entre lo bueno y lo ma­lo: y desta manera sea en este tu [Page] Reyno administrada iusticia, sea lo bueno aprouado y remu­nerado: y por el contrario lo malo condenado y castigado. Pues que para esto tu has con­stituido el Magistrado y le has puesto el cuchillo en la mano. Esto te pido O Sen̄or y Dios mio en nombre de tu vnigenito Hijo Ie­su Christo mi Re­demptor y inter­cessor. Amen. §§

❧ Tercera oracion.

‘* LOS INIVSTOS PE­receran sin quedar ninguno, y el paradero de los malos es per­dicion.’ PSAL. 37.

O Sen̄or Dios mio y Padre mio, immortales gracias hago à tu diuina Magestad con mi boca, con mi coraçon y con quanto yo soy, por las infinitas misericordias de que has vsado con migo: que no solamente me has hecho criatu­ra tuya, hechura de tus manos formada à la imagen y semejan­çatuya, [Page] me has por la muerte y passion de tu vnico Hijo Iesu Christo reconciliado contigo, a­doptado me y hecho hija tuya, hermana de Iesu Christo tu pri­mogenito y de todos aquellos (que) en ti creen, en ti esperan y confi­an: mas aun porque me has he­cho esta tan sen̄alada y tan ra­ra merced, que siendo yo vna muger de mi naturaleza flaca, timida y delicada, como lo son todas las demas, me has queri­do hazer robusta, animosa y fuerte para resistir à tanta multitud de Idumeos, Ismaelitas, Moabitas, Agarenos y otra in­finidad [Page] de gentes y naciones (que) se auian juntado, conjurado, conspirado y hecho liga, contra ti, contra tu hijo y contra todos aquellos que confiessan tu nom­bre y tienen por vnica regla de salud a tu sancta palabra. O Dios mio, O Padre mio, cuya bondad es infinita y cuya potē ­cia es immensa, que sueles esco­ger las cosas flacas deste mundo para cōfūdir y destruir las fuer­tes, perseuera, perseuera por la gloria de tu nōbre, por la honra de tu Hijo, por el descāso y quie tud de tu yglesia afligida en dar me fuerças para (que) yo como otra [Page] Debora, como otra Iudith, co­mo otra Esther libre à tu pue­blo de Israel de las manos de tus enemigos, leuantate Sen̄or iuz ga tu causa. Derrama tu ira sobre las gentes que note conoscen y sobre los Reynos que no inuocan tu Nombre. Sea co­noscida entre las naciones de­lante de nuestros ojos la ven­gança de la sangre de tus sier­uos que es derramada. Entre de lante tu acatamiento el gemido de los presos, y segun tu gran potencia reserua los que estan ya deputados para morir. Sean Sen̄or los que persiguen à tu [Page] yglesia auergonçados y con­turbados perpetuamente, y se­an confundidos y perezcan. Conoscan que tu, cuyo nombre es IEHOVA, eres solo el Altissimo sobre toda la tierra. O Sen̄or concede esto à tu yglesia por aquel vnico intercessor y a­bogado nuestro que siempre està delante de tu Magestad inter­cediendo por ella, que es Iesu Christo tu eterno Hijo: el qual con tigo y con el E­spiritu sancto es vn solo Dios y Sen̄or nue­stro. Amen. § §

Precatio Reginae.

ADmirabilis est, de­us opt. Max. iudi­ciorum tuorum a­byssus. Tu rex re­gum, Dominator dominantium. Tu imperia qui­bus visum est aufers & transfers, euellis & plantas, destruis & aedificas. Tu, quae tua est singula­ris benignitas, ancillam tuam mortis penè filiam liberasti: me, me captiuam in patrio & regali solio collocasti. Tibi igitur gra­tias ago, tibi laudes & hymnos cano, tuū nomen dies & noctes celebrabo. Per te patriae libertas, doctrinae veritas, ecclesiae tran­quillitas restituta sunt. Beneficiū [Page] tuum, tuum solius fuit, ministe­rium meum. Onus certè hume­ro muliebri graue, te leuante leue. Adiuua obsecro clementis­sime pater, necscelera mea, aut merita parentum, aut populi mei respice, quia mala & infinita sūt: sed misericordiae tuae memine­ris, quia antiqua & aeterna et om nibus miseris exposita est. Serua regnū, tuere religionē, defende causam tuam, reginā tuā, populū tuum & meum. Dissipentur ho­stes tui qui bella volūt: qui ado­rant sculptilia pudefiant & con­uertantur. Ne simus praeda gen­tibus quae te non norunt, & no­men tuum non inuocant. Con­firma ô Deus opus quod caepi­sti, affla spiritum principalē ser­uulae [Page] tuae, & pusillo gregi tuo, vt religionis castitatem cum morū puritate coniungamus, vt vuas non labruscas, & fructus dignos resipiscentia, dignos Euangelio proferamus, quò immortali hoc thesauro immortaliter fruamur, quò hic tibi viuentes & morien­tes regni tui caelestis haereditatē aliquando cernamus, per Chri­stum Iesum Dominum nostrū. Si quidem tuum est regnum, potentia, & gloria in om­nem perpetuitatem. Amen.

Precatio ad deum pro foelici regni administratione & populi incolumitate.

SVmme rerum opifex & seruator deus, quū hic ad maiestatis tuae pedes humilis iaceo, mecū (que) [...]eriò reputo quàm in­digna sim cui aurē benignus prae­beas, vndi (que) suffusa pudore vix au­deo ad te oculos attollere. Cum e­nim iam olim in ipso matris vtero peccati labes me infecisset, ob id (que) (vt reliqui Adami nepotes) abortu dignissima essem, me tamen hinc tua paterna manus eduxit at (que) in lucem edi permisit, editam cum Christo mori, & mortuam vt aeter­na vita fruerer, renasci. Et tamen (miseram me) iuuentus mea, immo mea incunabula nihil nisi prioris [Page] illius vitae fecem spirarunt. Vnde iterum iam me iudicem iratum ex­spectare te debui. At tu pro infini­ta tua bonitate me indignissimam ab aulicis voluptatibus ad regni tui delitias, per Sanctorum cōmu­nionem & vocem euangelij tui eti­am tum vocasti. Cum (que) verbis tuis non satis attentè & diligenter aus­cultarē, etsi me vnà cum alijs hu­ius regni ingratis virga tua per­cussisti, tamen vicit tua hic quo (que) bonitas genuinam malitiam. Ecce enim dum me loco filiae, qualem me in Christo adoptaras, detru­dere debeat tua iustitia: infinitae clementiae cedens, & nouo me be­neficio cumulans, è carcere & cu­stodia, at (que) adeo è faucibus leonū solutam ad regnum euexisti, aureo diademate immeritum caput cin­gens, & regali sceptro dextram or­nans. Addo & illud (quod ex om­nibus [Page] non minimum esse censeo) quòd christū ex regno Angliae exu­lantē, quasi postliminio redeūtem ministerio meo restituendū cōces­seris. Haec sunt benignissime pater, praecipua tuorum in me beneficio­rum capita: quae quanto excellen­tiora sunt, tanto indignius erga te me gessi, dum vitam meam nouis subinde vitijs corrumpo. Vnde fit vt horum consideratione de mea salute planè desperem. Sed rursum cum luculenta tua in Christi san­guine sancta promissa memoria repeto, tota reficior & recreor, & recuperata pristina spe tuum thro­num securior accedo, non quidem oblatura aliquid quod meis pec­catis expiationi esse possit: sed tā ­tum vt Christi tui oblationem, qua semel perfectos effecit qui sancti­ficātur, mihi sanctificationē & ex­piationē esse patiare, supplicatu­ra, [Page] me (que) in tuam clientelā ita susci­pias, vt quando ouium adipi obse­quium, pecudum carni & sanguini virtutes labiorum anteponis, tuis laudibus efferendis & mandatis tuis exequendis reliquū vitae cur­sum transigam. Nominatim vero cum me faeminū & imbecillem, & solam ad huius regni gubernacula sedere dignatus sis, & huius admi­nistrationis (quae omniū difficilli­ma existit) me coràm Christi tui tri bunali rationē reddere oporteat, porrige pater, porrige inquā è sub­limi solio filiae tuae, quae illi ad tam arduū munus obeundū necessaria esse iudicas. Dedisti cōsiliarios, da dextrè eorum vti consilijs: illis au­tem & piam & aequam & sanam mentē, industriam vero sedulam, vt quae mihi subdito (que) populo vsui sint, & prouidere sub tuo prae­sidio, & consulere velint ac queant. [Page] Dedisti insuper vt renatus verbo tuo idem populus eodem mecum foueri & ali se patiatur. Da ergo qui eos pascant etfideles pastores, & pios sanos (que) doctores. Caeterum mercenarios & omne genus lupo­rum ab hoc nostro quantuluscū (que) est, tibi Christo (que) dicato grege arce. Quin & gregem ipsum nouis tuis beneficijs ita orna, vt tibi tu­um supremum honorem, nobis tua in hac parte vice fungentibus obsequentiam, sibi inter se mu­tuam charitatem nusquam dene­get. Conserua porro tua bonita­te mihi partam pacem, & ab om­ni belli impetu assere patriam & regnum, potissimum ab intestinis & domesticis tumultibus, quibus bona iam orbis Christiani pars quatitur, immunes nos prolege. Et quoniā pauperrimi cuius (que) at (que) [Page] abiectissimae conditionis hominis afflictio ad nos qui tui sumus, atti­net: etiam afflictorum omnium qui tua opera promptiori egere vi­dentur, vt te misereat supplex oro & obtestor: Id (que) meritis & nomine filij tui do­mini nostri Iesu Christi, qui tecū viuit & reg­nat in omnem ae­ternitatem. Fiat.

Alia precatio.

SVmme Deus, qui me iam ab ineunte aetate, & antequam in lucem es­sem aedita, admirabili potentia, incredibili (que) prouidentia a ca­pitali humani generis inimico, eius (que) sceleratis administris ha­ctenus tutam incolumem (que) cō ­seruasti: concede itidem vt tua singulari benignitate freta, cum ab omnibus clandestinis insidi­is, tum etiam a domesticis exte­ris (que) hostibus eripiar, & ea liber­tate mentis (que) quieto tranquil­lo (que) statu consistam, vt popu­lum regnum (que) meae fidei ac tutelae commendatum, sartum [Page] tectum ab omnibus periculis tuearis: & cum ex hac vita migrauero, tecum immor­tali fruar beatitudine, in omnes aeui aeter­nitates. A­men. § §

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The birth of blessed Ma­ry the virgine the mother of Christ, &c.

‘There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Jesse, and a graffe, &c. Esay. 11. ‘There shall come a star of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise of Israell, &c. Num. 24.
‘Mary the mother of Jesu betrothed to Joseph her husband, before they came toge­ther, was founde with childe by the holy ghost. Thē Jo­seph her husband being a iust man, &c Math. 1.
‘But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house, and to my kinred, and take a wife, &c. Gen. 24. ‘I will speake for her that she may be geuen thee to wife. For to thee doth the right of her, &c. Tob. 6
‘And in the vi month the angell Gabriell was sent frō God to a citie in Galile, na­med Nazareth, to a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of Dauid, &c. Luke. 1.
‘The seede of the wo­man shall tread vppon the head of the serpent Gen. 3. ‘The angel said to him, the Lord is with thee thou valiaunt man. Judges. 6.
‘And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly con­trey to a citie of Juda, and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to passe, &c. Luke. 1.
‘And Moyses returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him, I pray, &c. Exo. 4. ‘My soule doth magnify the Lord, and my sprite doth re­ioyce in God my sauiour. Luke. 1.
‘When the dayes were accomplished, Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and layd him in the manger because there was no roume, &c. Lu. 2.
‘Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest, is holy ground. Exod. 3. ‘Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease &c. Num. 17.
‘And when the viii. dayes were accom­plished, that they should circumcise the childe, his name was then called Je­sus, which was so named of the Angel, before he was conceiued, &c. Luke. 2.
‘Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old, as God had cōmaunded him, &c. Gen. 21 ‘Let euery manchild among you be circumcised. That is ye shall circumcise the fore­skin of your flesh, &c. Gen. 17
‘Where is the king of the Jewes that is borne, for we haue sene his starre in the East, and are come to worship him. When Herode the king heard this, he was troubled. & all Jeru­salem, &c. Math. 2.
‘Abner said to Dauid, make couenant with me, and be­hold, mine hand shall be with thee, &c. 2. Sam. 3. ‘The Quene of Saba bring giftes to Jerusalem to Sa­lomon, with a very great trayne, &c. 3. Reg. 10.
‘Then the dayes of Purification after the law of Moses, were accomplished, they brought Jesus to Jerusalem to pre­sēt him to the lord, as it is written in the law of the lord, Luke. 2.
‘God sayd to Moses, sanctify vnto me all the first borne, that open all maner matrices among the childrē, &c. Exo. 13. ‘Anna bare a sonne & brought him into the house of the Lord in Siloh, and the childe was yong, &c. 1. Sam. 1.
‘Arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt, and be there till I bring thee word, for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him. So he arose & toke the babe & his mother, &c. Math. 2
‘Behold, thy brother E­sau is cōforted against thee, meaning to kill thee. Gen. 27. ‘Michaell spake vnto Dauid: If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow, &c. 1. Sa. 19
‘He shall breake downe their altars, he shal destroy their images. For now they shall say. we haue no king because we feared not the Lord, and what should a king do to vs? Ose. 10.
‘Moses cast the tables out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry, &c. Exo. 32. ‘The Philistines finde Dagon fallen downe be­fore the arke of the Lord &c. 1. Sam. 5.
‘Herode caused all male children to be slaine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes therof from two yeare olde and vnder, according to the tyme which he had diligently searched, &c. Mat. 2.
‘Saul sayd to Doeg, turne thou and fall vpon the priestes. And Doeg the E­domite turned, &c. 1. Sa. 22 ‘Athalia seyng her sonne to be dead, destroyed all the kinges seede. But Jehoshe­ba, &c. 4. Reg. 11.
‘And Jesus when he was baptised, came straight out of the water. And lo, the heauens were ope­ned vnto him, and John saw the spirite of God descending like a doue, &c. Math. 3.
‘Lift vp thy rodde and stretch out thine hande vpon the sea, &c. Exodus. 14 ‘They cutte downe a branche with one clu­ster of grapes, and beare it vpon, &c. Num. 13.
‘The Angel sayd to Joseph: Arise and take the babe and his mother, and go into the land of Is­rael, for they are dead which sought the babes life. Then he arose and toke the babe &c. Mat. [...]
‘God spake to Jacob, Get thee out of this countrey. Ja­cob toke all his goodes and cattell. &c. Gen. 31. ‘Dauid asked counsell of the Lord, saying: Shall I go vp into any cities of Judah, &c. 2. Sam. 2.
‘The tempter came to Christ saying: If thou be the sonne of God, commaunde that these stones be made bread. But he aunswering, sayd, it is written, Man shal not liue by bread on­ly, &c. Math. 4.
‘Esau selleth his birth right for a messe of pottage, &c. Gen. 25. ‘The woman seyng the tree to be plea­saunt, toke of the fruit, &c. Gen. 3.
‘Christ cried with a loud voyce, Lazarus come forth. Then he that was dead came forth. bound hand & foote with bandes and his face was bound with a nap­kin. Jesus said vnto them, &c. John. 11.
‘Helias stretched himselfe vpon the childe, and the Lord heard the voyce of Helias, &c. 3. Reg. 17. ‘Heliseus comming into the house, and behold, the childe was dead, and he stretched, &c. 4. Reg. 4.
‘He was transfigu­red before them, and his face did shine as the sunne, and his clothes were as white as the light. And beholde, there appeared vnto them Moses and E­lias, &c. Math. 17.
‘Abraham said, Lord if I haue now found fauour in thy sight. &c. Gen. 18. ‘Nabuchadneser aunswered: Lo I see foure men loose walking in the midst of the fire. Dan. 3.
‘Jesus sayd, Many sinnes are forgeuen her, for she loued much. To whom a little is forgeuen▪ he doth loue a little. And he said vnto her, Thy sinnes are forgeuen thee, &c. Luke. 7.
‘Dauid said to Nathan: I haue sinned against the Lord, &c. 2. Sam. 12 ‘Aaron looked vpon Mi­riam, and behold, she was leprous. Num. 12
‘When Christ came nere Jerusalem he beheld the citie and wept for it, saying: O if thou hadst euen knowen at the lest in this thy day those thinges which be­long vnto thy peace &c. Luke. 19.
‘Who shall haue pitie then vpon thee, O Jerusalem or who, &c. Jere. 15. ‘Their feastes are turned into lamentation, their altars, &c, 1. Macha. 1.
‘Christ riding to Je­rusalem, many spred their garmentes in the way, other cut downe branches of the trees & strawed them in the way. And they that went before, and they that folowed, &c Mark. 11
‘The women sang by course in their play, and said: &c. 1. Sam. 28 ‘The children of the prophets came to meete Helisha, &c. 4. Reg. 2.
‘Jesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought, saying vnto them it is written, Myne house is the house of prayer, but ye haue made it a den of theues. Luke. 19
‘Is this house become a denne of theeues, wheru­pon, &c. Jere. 7. ‘Mine house shall be cal­led a house of prayer for all people, &c. Esay. 56.
‘The chiefe priestes and the Scribes and the Elders of the people, consulted how they might take Jesus by suttletie and kil him. But they said, not on the feast day, least any vprore, &c. Math. 26
‘When Josephes bre­thren saw him a farre of, &c. Gen. 37. ‘Absolon rose vp ear­ly and stode hard by the, &c. 2. Sam. 15.
‘They appointed vn­to him thirtie pieces of siluer, and from that tyme Judas sought oportunitie to betray Christ his maister. Now on the first day of the feast of vnleauened bread, &c. Math. 26
‘Judas said: Come let vs sell him to the Isma­lites, &c. Gen. 37 ‘So Joseph was brought downe into Egipt, and Potiphar, &c. Gen. 39.
‘Jesus knowing all thinges that should come, went forth and said vnto them whome seeke ye? They answered him Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus aunswered I am he. Judas also &c. John. 18.
‘The foolish virgines came also saying, Lord Lord, &c. Math. 25. ‘The great Dragon that olde serpent was cast out, &c. Ruee. 12.
‘Judas had geuen them a token say­ing: whomsoeuer I kisse, he it is, take him and lead him away. And as soone as he was come, he goeth to him and saith: Maister, mai­ster, &c. Marke. 14.
‘Joad tooke Abner aside peaceably, and smote him vnder the ribbe that he died. &c. 2. Sam. 3. ‘Simon to redeme Jona­than, sendeth mony and the children to Triphon &c. 1. Macha. 13.
‘The Jewes spate Christ in his face, and buffeted him saying: Prophecy vnto vs O Christ who is he that smote thee? Peter sate without in the hall, and a maid, &c Math. 26.
‘When Cham the father of Chanaan saw the nakednes of his father, he tolde his two brethren, &c. Gen. 10. ‘Heliseus is mocked of little children crying vnto him: Come vp thou baldhead, &c. 4. Reg. 2.
‘Pilate let Barra­bas lose vnto thē and scourged Je­sus, and deliuered him to be crucified Then the souldi­ours of the gouer­nour toke Jesus in to the common hall, &c. Math. 27.
‘The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and furrowes long did cast, &c. Psal. 131. ‘Sathan smote Job with sore boyles frō the soule of his foot &c. Joh. 2.
‘And the souldi­ours platted a crowne of thorne vpon his head, and a reede in his right hand, and bowed their knees before him and mocked him, saying: God saue, &c. Math. 27
‘When thou hast done all thy duety, sitte downe that thou maist receue a crowne &c. Eccle. 32 ‘Abner said vnto Dauid. who art thou that criest to the king. &c. 1. Sam. 26
‘Pilate toke water and washed hys handes before the multitude, saying: I am innocent of the death of this iust man, looke you to it. Then answe­red all the people, &c. Math. 27.
‘Jezabell sent a messen­ger vnto Helias saying The Gods do so to me &c. 3. Reg. 19. ‘Then the king com­maunded, and they brought Daniel and cast, &c. Dan. 6.
‘and Jesus bare his crosse and came into a place named Gol­gotha, where they crucified him and two other with him in either side one, and Jesus in the midst of them, &c. John. 19.
‘Abraham tooke the wood of the burnt offring, and layd it upon Isaac his sonne, &c. Gene. 22. ‘Behold the widow was there gathering sticks, and Eliah called her, and said, &c. 3. Reg. 17.
‘And when they were come to the place which is cal­led Caluarie, there they crucified him and the euil doers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left, &c. Luke. 23.
‘Tubultaim wrought cunningly euery craft of brasse and iron, &c. Gen. 4. ‘Esay the prophet was cut in the midst with a saw, and fasted on a tree, &c.’
‘One of the souldi­ours with a speare pearced his side. & forthwith ran there out bloud and wa­ter. And he that saw it bare record and his recorde is true. And he that &c. John. 19.
‘With the ribbe which the Lord God had taken from the man, &c Gen. 2. ‘The Lord said to Moses Thou shalt smite the rocks and water, &c Exo. 17
‘Joseph toke the bo­dy and wrapped it in a cleane lin­nen cloth, and layd it in his new tombe which he had hewen out euen in the rock and rolled a great stone to the dore, St. Math. 27.
‘Assone as the sunne was downe, Josue commaun­deth that they, &c. Josu. 8 ‘Then they arose and went all night, and toke the body, &c. 1. Sam. 31
‘There was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting ouer against the se­pulchre. The next day that followed the day of prepa­ring, the hie priestes and Pharises, &c. Math. 27.
‘She wepeth continually in the night, and her teares. &c. Lamen. 1. ‘Call me not Naomi, but call me Mara for the lord hath geuen, &c. Ruth. 1.
‘He layd it in a tomb hewen out of a rocke wherin was neuer man yet layd. And that day was the preparing of the Sa­both, & the Saboth drue on. The women that folowed after &c. Luke. 23.
‘When Joseph was come to his brethren, they stript him, &c. Gen. 37. ‘So they toke vp Jonas and cast him into the sea and the sea▪ &c. Jonas. 1
‘For feare of him the kepers were a­stonied & became as dead men. But the Angell sayd to the women: Feare not, for I know you seeke Jesus which was crucified, &c. Math. 28.
‘Samson arose at mid­night and toke the dores, &c. Judicum. 16. ‘And the Lord spake vn­to the fish and it cast out Jonas, &c. Jonas. 2.
‘Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene out of whom he had cast vij. deuils. And she went and told them that had bene with him which mourned, &c. Mar. 16
‘The king said vnto Da­niell: O Daniel the ser­uaunt, &c. Daniel. 6. ‘When I had past a litle from them, then I found him, &c. Cant. 3.
‘Jesus said to Tho­mas put thy finger here and see my hands and put forth thy hand, and put it into my side, and be not faythlesse, &c. John. 20.
‘And Jacob called the name of the place Pe­niell, &c. Gen. 32. ‘Gedeon aunswered: the Lord be with vs why then, &c. Jud. 6.
‘So after the Lord had spoken vnto them he was recei­ued into heauen and sate at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached, &c. Mar. 16
‘And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more sene, for God tooke him away, &c. Gen. 5. ‘There appeared a charet of fire, and horses of fire, so Elias went vp by a whirle­winde, &c. 2. Reg. 2.

The birth of blessed Ma­ry the virgine the mother of Christ, &c.

‘There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Jesse, and a graffe, &c. Esay. 11. ‘There shall come a star of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise of Israell, &c Num. 24.
‘Mary the mother of Jesu betrothed to Joseph her husband, before they came toge­ther, was founde with childe by the holy ghost. Thē Jo­seph her husband being a iust man, &c Math. 1.
‘But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house, and to my kinred, and take a wife, &c. Gen. 24. ‘I will speake for her that she may be geuen thee to wife. For to thee doth the right of her, &c. Tob. 6
‘And in the vi month the Angell Gabriell was sent frō God to a citie in Galile, na­med Nazareth, to a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of Dauid, &c. Luke. 1.
‘The seede of the wo­man shall tread vppon the head of the serpent Gen. 3. ‘The angel said to him, the Lord is with thee thou valiaunt man. Judges. 6.
‘And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly con­trey to a citie of Juda, and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to passe, &c. Luke. i.
‘And Moyses returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him, I pray, &c. Exo. 4. ‘My soule doth magnify the Lord, and my sprite doth re­ioyce in God my sauiour. Luke. 1.
‘When the dayes were accomplished, Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and layd him in the manger because there was no roume, &c. Lu. 2.
‘Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest, is holy ground. Exod. 3. ‘Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease &c. Num. 17.
‘And when the viii. dayes were accom­plished, that they should circumcise the childe, his name was then called Je­sus, which was so named of the Angel, before he was conceiued, &c. Luke. 2.
‘Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old, as God had cōmaunded him, &c. Gen. 21 ‘Abner said to Dauid, make couenant with me, and be­hold, mine hand shall be with thee, &c. 2. Sam. 3.
‘Where is the king of the Jewes that is borne, for we haue sene his starre in the East, and are come to worship him. When Herode the king heard this, he was troubled, & all Jeru­salem, &c. Math. 2.
‘Abuer said to Dauid, make coueuant with me and be­hold, mine hand shall be with thee, &c. 2. Sam. 3 ‘The Quene of Saba bring giftes to Jerusalem to Sa­lomon, with a very great rayne, &c. 3. Reg. 10.
‘When the dayes of Purification after the law of Moses, were accomplished, they brought Jesus to Jerusalem to pre­sēt him to the lord, as it is written in the law of the lord, Luke. 2.
‘God sayd to Moses, sanctify vnto me all the first borne, that open all maner matrices among the childrē, &c. Exo. 13. ‘Anna bare a sonne & brought him into the house of the Lord in Siloh, and the childe was yong &c. 1. Sam. 1.
‘Arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt, and be there till I bring thee word, for Herode will seeks the babe to destroy him. So he arose & toke the babe & his mother, &c. Math. 2
‘Behold, thy brother E­sau is cōforted against thee, meaning to kill thee. Gen. 27. ‘Michaell spake vnto Dauid: If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow, &c. 1. Sa. 19
‘He shall breake downe their altars, he shal destroy their images. For now they shall say. we haue no king because we feared not the Lord, and what should a king do to vs? Ose. 10.
‘Moses cast the tables out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry. &c. Exo. 32 ‘The Philistines finde Dagon fallen downe be­fore the arke of the Lord &c. 1. Sam. 1.
‘Herode caused all male children to be slaine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes therof from two yeare olde and vnder, according to the tyme which he had diligently searched, &c. Mat. 2.
‘Saul sayd to Doeg, turne thou and fall vpon the priestes. And Doeg the E­domite turned, &c. 1. Sa. 22 ‘Athalia seyng her sonne to be dead, destroyed all the kinges seede. But Jehoshe­ba, &c. 4. Reg. 11.
‘And Jesus when he was baptised, came straight out of the water. And lo, the heauens were ope­ned vnto him, and John saw the spirite of God descending like a doue, &c. Math. 3.
‘Lett vp thy rodde and stretch out thine hande vpon the sea, &c. Exodus. 14 ‘They cutte downe a branche with one clu­ster of grapes, and beare it vpon. &c. Num. 13.
‘The Angel sayd to Joseph: Arise and take the babe and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for they are dead which sought the babes life, Then he arose and toke the babe &c. Mat. 2
‘God spake to Jacob, Get thee out of this countrey. Ja­cob toke all his goodes and cattell, &c. Gen. 31. ‘Dauid asked counsell of the Lord, saying: Shall I go vp into any cities of Judah, &c. 2. Sam. 2.
‘The tempter came to Christ saying: If thou be the sonne of God, commaunde that these stones be made bread. But he aunswering, sayd, it is written, Man shal not liue by bread on­ly, &c. Math. 4.
‘Esau selleth his birth right for a messe of pottage, &c. Gen. 25 ‘The woman seyng the tree to be plea­saunt, toke of the fruit, &c. Gen. 3.
‘Christ tried with a loud voyce, Lazarus come forth. Then he that was dead came forth, bound hand & foote with bandes and his face was bound with a nap­kin. Jesus said vnto them, &c. John. 11.
‘Helias stretched himselfe vpon the childe, and the Lord heard the voyce of Helias, &c. 3. Reg. 17. ‘Heliseus comming into the house, and behold, the childe was dead, and he tretched, &c. 4. Reg. 4.
‘He was transfigu­red before them, and his face did shine as the sunne, and his clothes were as white as the light. And beholde, there appeared vnto them Moses and E­lias, &c. Math. 17.
‘Abraham said, Lord if I haue now found fauour in thy sight. &c. Gen. 18. ‘Nabuchadneser aunswered: Lo I see foure men loose walking in the midst of the fire. Dan. 3.
‘Jesus sayd, Many sinnes are forgeuen her, for she loued much. To whom a little is forgeuen, he doth loue a litle. And he said vnto her, Thy sinnes are forgeuen thee, &c. Luke. 7.
‘Dauid said to Nathan: I haue sinned against the Lord, &c. 2. Sam. 12 ‘Aaron looked vpon Mi­riam, and behold, she was leprous. Num. 12
‘When Christ came nere Jerusalem he beheld the citie and wept for it, saying: O if thou hadst euen knowen at the lest in this thy day those thinges which be­long vnto thy peace &c. Luke. 19.
‘Who shall haue pitie then vpon thee, O Jerusalem or who, &c. Jere. 15. ‘Their feastes are turned into lamentation, their altars, &c, 1. Macha. 1.
‘Christ riding to Je­rusalem. many spred their garmentes in the way, other cut downe branches of the trees & strawed them in the way. And they that went before, and they that folowed, &c Mark. 11
‘The women sang by course in their play, and said: &c. 1. Sam. 28 ‘The children of the prophetes came to meete Helisha, &c. 4. Reg. 2.
‘Jesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought, saying vnto them it is written, Myne house is the house of prayer, but ye haue made it a den of theues. Luke. 19
‘Is this house become a denne of theeues, wheru­pon, &c. Jere. 7. ‘Mine house shall be cal­led a house of prayer for all people, &c. Esay. 56.
‘The chiefe priestes and the Scribes and the Elders of the people, consulted how they might take Jesus by suttletie and kil him. But they said, not on the feast day, least any vprore, &c. Math. 26
‘When Josephes bre­thren saw him a farre of, &c. Gen. 37. ‘Absolon rose vp ear­ly and stode hard by the, &c. 2. Sam. 15.
‘They appointed vn­to him thirtie pieces of siluer, and from that tyme Judas sought oportunitie to betray Christ his maister. Now on the first day of the feast of vnleauened bread, &c. Math. 26
‘Judas said: Come let vs sell him to the Isma­lites, &c. Gen. 37 ‘Do Joseph was brought downe into Egipt, and Potiphar, &c. Gen. 39.
‘Jesus knowing all thinges that should come, went forth and said vnto them Whome seeke ye? They answered him Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus aunswered I am he. Judas also &c. John. 18.
‘The foolish virgines came also saying, Lord Lord, &c. Math. 25. ‘The great Dragon that olde serpent was cast out, &c. Ruee. 12.
‘Judas had geuen them a token say­ing: Whomsoeuer I kisse, he it is, take him and lead him away. And as soone as he was come, he goeth to him and saith: Maister, mai­ster, &c. Marke. 14.
‘Joad tooke Abner aside peaceably, and smote him vnder the ribbe that he died. &c. 2. Sam. 3. ‘Simon to redeme Jona­than, sendeth mony and the children to Triphon &c. 1. Macha. 13.
‘The Jewes spate Christ in his face, and buffeted him saying: Prophecy vnto vs O Christ who is he that smote thee? Peter sate without in the hall, and a maid, &c Math. 26.
‘When Cham the father of Chanaan saw the naked n [...] of his father, he tolde his two brethren, &c. Gen. 10. ‘Heliseus is mocked of little children crying vnto him: Come vp thou baldhead, &c. 1. Reg. 2.
‘Pilate let Barra­bas lose vnto thē and scourged Je­sus, and deliuered him to be crucified Then the souldi­ours of the gouer­nour toke Jesus in to the common hall, &c. Math. 27.
‘The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and furrowes long did cast, &c. Psal. 131. ‘Sathan smote Job with sore boyles frō the soule of his foot &c. Job. 2.
‘And the souldi­ours platted a crowne of thorne vpon his head, and a reede in his right hand, and bowed their knees before him and mocked him, saying: God saue, &c. Math. 27
‘When thou hast done all thy duery, sitte downe that thou maist receue a crowne &c. Eccle. 32. ‘Abner said vnto Dauid, who art thou that criest to the king, &c. 1. Sam. 26.
‘Pilate toke water and washed hys handes before the multitude, saying: I am innocent of the death of this iust man, looke you to it. Then answe­red all the people, &c. Math. 27.
‘Jezabell sent a messen­ger vnto Helias saying The Gods do so to me &c. 3. Reg. 19. ‘Then the king com­maunded, and they brought Daniel and cast, &c. Dan. 6.
‘And Jesus bare his crosse and came into a place named Gol­gotha, where they crucified him and two other with him on either side one, and Jesus in the midst of them, &c. John. 19.
‘Abraham tooke the wood of the burnt offring, and layd it vpon Isaac his sonne, &c. Gene. 22. ‘Behold the widow was there gathering sticks, and Eliah called her, and said, &c. 3. Reg. 17.
‘And when they were come to the place which is cal­led Caluarie, there they crucified him and the euil doers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left, &c. Luke. 23.
‘Tubultaim wrought cunningly euery craft of brasse and iron, &c. Gen. 4. ‘Esay the prophet was cut in the midst with a saw, and fasted on a tree, &c.’
‘One of the souldi­ours with a speare pearced his side, & forthwith ran there out bloud and wa­ter. And he that saw it bare record and his recorde is true. And he that &c. John. 19.
‘With the ribbe which the Lord God had taken from the man, &c Gen. 2. ‘The Lord said to Moses Thou shalt smite the rocks and water. &c Exo. 17
‘Joseph toke the bo­dy and wrapped it it in a cleane lin­nen cloth, and layd it in his new tombe which he had hewen out euen in the rock and rolled a great stone to the dore, &c. Math. 27.
‘Assone as the sunne was downe, Josne commaun­deth that they, &c. Josu. 8 ‘Then they arose and went all night, and toke the body, &c. 1. Sam. 31
‘There was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting ouer against the se­pulchre. The next day that followed the day of prepa­ring, the hie priestes and Pharises, &c. Math. 27.
‘She wepeth continually in the night, and her teares. &c. Lamen. 1. ‘Call me not Naomi, but call me Mara for the lord hath geuen, &c. Ruth. 1.
‘He layd it in a tomb hewen out of a rocke wherin was neuer man yet layd. And that day was the preparing of the Sa­both, & the Saboth drue on. The women that folowed after &c. Luke. 23.
‘When Joseph was come to his brethren, they script him, &c. Gen. 37. ‘So they toke vp Jonas and cast him into the sea and the sea, &c. Jonas. 1
‘For feare of him the kepers were a­stonied & became as dead men. But the Angell sayd to the women: Feare not, for I know you seeke Jesus which was crucified, &c. Math. 28.
‘Samson arose at mid­night and toke the dores, &c. Judicum. 16. ‘And the Lord spake vn­to the fish and it cast out Jonas, &c. Jonas. 2.
‘Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene out of whom he had cast vij. deuils. And she went and told them that had bene with him which mourned, &c. Mar. 16
‘The king said vnto Da­niell: O Daniel the ser­uaunt, &c. Daniel. 6. ‘When I had past a litle from them, then I found him, &c. Cant. 3.
‘Jesus said to Tho­mas put thy finger here and see my hands and put forth thy hand, and put it into my side, and be not faythlesse, &c. John. 20.
‘And Jacob called the name of the place Pe­niell, &c. Gen. 32. ‘Gedeon aunswered: the Lord be with vs why then, &c. Jud. 6.
‘So after the Lord had spoken vnto them, he was recei­ued into heauen and sate at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached, &c. Mar. 16
‘And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more sene, for God tooke him away, &c. Gen. 5. ‘There appeared a charet of fire, and horses of fire, so Elias went vp by a whirl­winde, &c. 2. Reg. 2

The birth of blessed Ma­ry the virgine the mother of Christ, &c.

‘There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Jesse, and a graffe, &c. Esay. 11. ‘There shall come a star of Jacob, and a scepter shall ryse of Israell: &c Num. 24.
‘Mary the mother of Jesu betrothed to Joseph her husband, before they came toge­ther, was founde with childe by the holy ghost. Thē Jo­seph her husband being a iust man, &c Math. 1.
‘But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house, and to my kinred, and take a wife, &c. Gen. 24. ‘I will speake for her that she may be geuen thee to wife. For to thee doth the right of her, &c. Tob. 6
‘And in the vi month the Angell Gabriell was sent frō God to a citie in Galile, na­med Nazareth, to a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of Dauid, &c. Luke. 1.
‘The seede of the wo­man shall tread vppon the head of the serpent Gen. 2. ‘The angel said to him, the Lord is with thee thou valiaunt man. Judges. 6.
‘And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly con­trey to a citie of Juda, and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to passe, &c. Luke. i.
‘And Moyses returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him, I pray, &c. Exo. 4. ‘My soule doth magnify the Lord, and my sprite doth re­ioyce in God my sauiour. Luke. 1.
‘When the dayes were accomplished, Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and layd him in the manger because there was no roume, &c. Lu. 2.
‘Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest, is holy ground. Exod. 3. ‘Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease &c. Num. 17.
‘And when the viii. dayes were accom­plished, that they should circumcise the childe, his name was then called Je­sus, which was so named of the Angel, before he was concerned, &c. Luke. 2.
‘Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old, as God had cōmaunded him, &c. Gen. 21 ‘Abner said to Dauid, make couenant with me, and be­hold, mine hand shall be with thee, &c. 2. Sam. 3.
‘Where is the king of the Jewes that is borne, for we haue sene his starre in the East, and are come to worship him. When Herode the king heard this, he was troubled, & all Jeru­salem, &c. Math. 2.
‘Abuer said to Dauid, make coueuant with me, and be­hold, mine hand shall be with thee, &c. 2. Sam. 3 ‘The Quene of Saba bring giftes to Jerusalem to Sa­lomon, with a very great trayne, &c. [...]. Reg. 10.
‘When the dayes of Purification after the law of Moses, were accomplished, they brought Jesus to Jerusalem to pre­sēt him to the lord, as it is written in the law of the lord, Luke. 2.
‘God sayd to Moses, sanctify vnto me all the first borne, that open all maner matrices among the childrē, &c. Exo. 13. ‘Anna, bare a sonne & brought him into the house of the Lord in Siloh, and the childe was yong, &c. 1. Sam. 1.
‘Arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt, and be there till I bring thee word, for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him. So he arose & toke the babe & his mother, &c. Math. 2
‘Behold, thy brother E­sau is cōforted against thee, meaning to kill thee. Gen. 27. ‘Michaell spake vnto Dauid: If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow, &c. 1. Sa. 19
‘He shall breake downe their altars, he shal destroy their images. For now they shall say, we haue no king because we feared not the Lord, and what should a king do to vs? Ose. 10.
‘Moses cast the tables out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry, &c. Exo. 32 ‘The Philistines finde Dagon fallen downe be­fore the arke of the Lord &c. 1. Sam. 5.
‘Herode caused all male children to be slaine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes therof from two yeare olde and vnder, according to the tyme which he had diligently searched, &c Mat. 2.
‘Saul sayd to Doeg, turne thou and fall vpon the priestes. And Doeg the E­domite turned, &c. 1. Sa. 22 ‘Athalia seyng her sonne to be dead, destroyed all the kinges seede. But Jehoshe­ba, &c. 4. Reg. 11.
‘And Jesus when he was baptised, came straight out of the water. And lo, the heauens were ope­ned vnto him, and John saw the spirite of God descending like a doue, &c. Math. 3.
‘Lift vp thy rodde and stretch out thine hande vpon the sea, &c. Exodus. 14. ‘They cutte downe a branche with out clu­ster of grapes, and beare it vpon, &c. Num. 13.
‘The Angel sayd to Joseph: Arise and take the babe and his mother and go into the land of Is­rael, for they are dead which sought the babes life, Then he arose and toke the babe &c. Mat. 2
‘God spake to Jacob, Get thee out of this countrey. Ja­cob toke all his goodes and cattell. &c. Gen. 31. ‘Dauid asked counsell of the Lord, saying: Shall I go vp into any cities of Judah, &c. 2. Sam. 2.
‘The tempter came to Christ saying: If thou be the sonne of God, commaunde that these stones be made bread. But he aunswering. sayd, it is written, Man shal not liue by bread on­ly, &c. Math. 4.
‘Esau selleth his birth right for a messe of pottage, &c. Gen 25. ‘The woman seyng the tree to be plea­saunt, toke of the fruit, &c. Gen. 3.
‘Christ cried with a loud voyce, Lazarus come forth. Then he that was dead came forth. bound hand & foote with bandes and his face was bound with a nap­kin. Jesus said vnto them, &c. John. 11.
‘Helias stretched himselfe vpon the childe, and the Lord heard the voyce of Helias, &c. 3. Reg. 17. ‘Heliseus comming into the house, and behold, the childe was dead, and he stretched, &c. 4. Reg. 4.
‘He was transfigu­red before them, and his face did shine as the sunne, and his clothes were as white as the light. And beholde, there appeared vnto them Moses and E­lias, &c. Math. 17.
‘Abraham said, Lord if I haue now found fauour in thy sight. &c. Gen. 18. ‘Nabuchadneser aunswered: Lo I see foure men loose walking in the midst of the fire. Dan. 3.
‘Jesus sayd, Many sinnes are forgeuen her, for she loued much. To whom a little is forgeuen▪ he doth loue a litle. And he said vnto her, Thy sinnes are forgeuen thee, &c. Luke. 7
‘Dauid said to Nathan: I haue sinned against the Lord, &c. 2. Sam. 12 ‘Aaron looked vpon Mi­riam, and behold, she was leprous. Num. 12
‘When Christ came nere Jerusalem he beheld the citie and wept for it, saying: O if thou hadst euen knowen at the lest in this thy day those thinges which be­long vnto thy peace &c. Luke. 19.
‘Who shall haue pitie then vpon thee, O Jerusalem or who, &c. Jere. 15. ‘Their feastes are turued into lamentation, their altats, &c, 1. Macha. 1.
‘Christ riding to Je­rusalem, many spred their garmentes in the way, other cut downe branches of the trees & strawed them in the way. And they that went before, and they that folowed, &c Mark. 11
‘The women sang by course in their play, and said: &c. 1. Sam. 22 ‘The children of the prophetes came to meete Helisha, &c. 4. Reg. 2.
‘Jesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought, saying vnto them it is written, Myne house is the house of prayer, but ye haue made it a den of theues. Luke. 19
‘Is this house become a denne of theeues, wheru­pon, &c. Jere. 7. ‘Mine house shall be cal­led a house of prayer for all people, &c. Esay. 56.
‘The chiefe priestes and the Scribes and the Elders of the people, consulted how they might take Jesus by suttletie and kil him. But they said, not on the feast day, least any oprore, &c. Math. 26
‘When Josephes bre­thren saw him a farre of, &c. Gen. 37. ‘Absolon rose vp ear­ly and stode hard by the, &c. 2. Sam. 15.
‘They appointed vn­to him thirtie pieces of siluer, and from that tyme Judas sought oportunitie to betray Christ his maister. Now on the first day of the feast of vnleauened bread, &c. Math. 26
‘Judas said: Come let vs sell him to the Isma­lites, &c. Gen. 37 ‘So Joseph was brought downe into Egipt, and Potiphar, &c. Gen. 39.
‘Jesus at his last supper as they did eate, tooke bread, & whē he had geuen thankes brake it, and gaue it to his disciples, saying: Take, eate, this is my body, &c. Math. 26.
‘Melchisedech brought forth bread and wine, and he, &c. Gen. 37. ‘Moses said to the peo­ple of Israell: This is that bread, &c. Exo. 16
‘Jesus said: all ye shall be offended by me this night, &c. He said moreouer vnto them, sitte ye here while I go and pray yonder. And he toke Peter and the two sonnes &c. Math. 26.
‘I saw all Israell scartred sheepe that had no shepe­heard, &c. 3. Reg. 22. ‘Helisha sayd: behold thou shalt see it with thine eyes but thou, &c. 4. Reg. 7.
‘Jesus knowing all thinges that should come, went forth and said vnto them whome seeke ye? They answered him Jesus of Nazareth▪ Jesus aunswered I am he. Judas also &c. John. 18.
‘The foolish virgines came also saying, Lord Lord, &c. Math. 25. ‘The great Dragon that olde serpent was cast out, &c. Ruee. 12.
‘Judas had geuen them a token say­ing: Whomsoeuer I kisse, he it is, take him and lead him away. And as soone as he was come, he goeth to him and saith: Maister, mai­ster, &c. Marke. 14.
‘Joad tooke Abner aside peaceably, and smote him vnder the ribbe that he died. &c. 2. Sam. 3. ‘Simon to redeme Jona­than, sendeth mony and the children to Triphon &c. 1. Macha. 13.
‘The Jewes spate Christ in his face, and buffeted him saying: Prophecy vnto vs O Christ who is he that smote thee? Peter sate without in the hall, and a maid, &c Math. 26.
‘When Cham the father, of Chanaan saw the nakednes of his father, he told his two brethren, &c Gen. 10 ‘Heliseus is mocked of little children crying vnto him: Come vp thou baldhead, &c. 4. Reg. 2.
‘Pilate let Barra­bas lose vnto thē and scourged Je­sus, and deliuered him to be crucified Then the souldi­ours of the gouer­nour toke Jesus in to the common hall, &c. Math. 27.
‘The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and furrowes long did cast, &c. Psal. 131. ‘Sathan smoke Job with sore boyles fed the soule of his foot &c. Job. 2.
‘And the souldi­ours platted a crowne of thorne vpon his hend, and a reede in his right hand, and bowed their knees before him and mocked him, saying: God saue, &c. Math. 27
‘When thou hast done all thy duety, sitte downe that thou maist receue a crowne &c. Eccle. 32. ‘Abner said vnto Dauid, who art thou that criest to the king, &c. 1. Sam. 26.
‘Pilate toke water and washed hys handes before the multitude, saying: I am innocent of the death of this iust man, looke you to it. Then answe­red all the people, &c. Math. 27.
‘Jezabell sent a messen­ger vnto Helias saying The Gods do so to me &c. 3. Reg. 19. ‘Then the king com­maunded, and they brought Daniel and cast, &c. Dan. 6.
‘And Jesus bare his crosse and came into a place named Gol­gotha, where they crucified him and two other with him on either side one, and Jesus in the midst of them, &c. John. 19.
‘Abraham tooke the wood of the burnt offring, and layd it vpon Isaac his sonne, &c. Gene. 22. ‘Behold the widow was there gathering sticks, and Eliah called her, and said, &c. 3. Reg. 17.
‘And when they were come to the place which is cal­led Caluarie, there they crucified him and the euil doers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left, &c. Luke. 23.
‘Tubultaim wrought cunningly euery craft of brasse and iron, &c. Gen. 4. ‘Esay the prophet was cut in the midst with a saw, and fasted on a tree, &c.’
‘One of the souldi­ours with a speare pearced his side. & forth with ran there out bloud and wa­ter. And he that saw it bare record and his recorde is true. And he that &c. John. 19.
‘With the ribbe which the Lord God had taken from the man, &c Gen. 2. ‘The Lord said to Moses Thou shalt smite the rocke and water, &c Exo. 17
‘Joseph toke the bo­dy and wrapped it it in a cleane lin­nen cloth, and layd it in his new tombe which he had hewen out euen in the rock and rolled a great stone to the dore, &c. Math. 27.
‘Assone as the sunne was downe, Josne commaun­deth that they, &c. Josu. 8 ‘Then they arose and went all night, and toke the body, &c. 1. Sam. 31
‘There was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting ouer against the se­pulchre. The next day that followed the day of prepa­ring, the hie priestes and Pharises, &c. Math. 27.
‘She wepeth continually in the night, and her teares. &c. Lamen. 1. ‘Call me not Naomi, but call me Mara for the lord hath geuen. &c. Ruth. 1.
‘He layd it in a tomb hewen out of a rocke wherin was neuer man yet layd. And that day was the preparing of the Sa­both, & the Saboth drue on. The women that folowed after &c. Luke. 23.
‘When Joseph was come to his brethren, they stript him, &c. Gen. 37. ‘So they toke vp Jonas and cast him into the sea and the sea, &c. Jonas.
‘For feare of him the kepers were a­stonied & became as dead men. But the Angell sayd to The women: Feare not, for I know you seeke Jesus which was crucified, &c. Math. 28.
‘Samson arose at mid­night and toke the dores, &c. Judicum. 16. ‘And the Lord spake vn­to the fish and it cast out Jonas, &c. Jonas. 2.
‘Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene out of whom he had cast vii. deuils. And she went and told them that had bene with him which mourned, &c. Mar. 16
‘The king said vnto Da­niell: O Daniel the ser­uaunt, &c. Daniel. 6. ‘When I had past a litle from them, then I found him, &c. Cant. 3.
‘Jesus said to Tho­mas put thy finger here and see my hands and put forth thy hand, and put it into my side, and be not faythlesse, &c. John. 20.
‘And Jacob called the name of the place Pe­niell, &c. Gen. 32. ‘Gedeon aunswered: the Lord be with vs why then, &c. Jud. 6.
‘So after the Lord had spoken vnto them he was recei­ued into heauen and sate at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached, &c. Mar. 16
‘And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more sene, for God tooke him away, &c. Gen. 5. ‘There appeared a charet of fire, and horses of fire, so Elias went vp by a whirl­winde, &c. 2. Reg. 2
‘Behold a woman a Cananite, came out of the sea coastes, and cried, saying vn­to him: Haue mercy on me O Lord, &c. Math. 15.
‘A certayne man was di­seased 38. yeares, when Jesus saw him lie and knew, &c. John. 5. ‘And in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went vnto them, walkyng on the sea, &c. Math. 14.
‘Mary stoode at the sepulcher wepyng, and as she wept, she bowed her selfe into the sepulchre and saw two aungels in white sitting, the one &c. John. 20.
‘Ruben returned to the pit, and behold Joseph was not in the pit, &c. Gen. 37. ‘I will seeke him that my soule loueth: I sought him but I found him not, &c. Cant. 3.

The birth of blessed Ma­ry the virgine the mother of Christ, &c.

‘There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Jesse, and a graffe, &c. Esay. 11. ‘There shall come a star of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise of Israell, &c. Num. 24.
‘Mary the mother of Jesu botrothed to Joseph her husband, before they came toge­ther, was founde with childe by the holy ghost. Thē Jo­seph her husband being a iust man, &c Math. 1.
‘But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house, and to my kinred, and take a wife, &c. Gen. 24. ‘I will speake for her that she may be geuen thee to wife. For to thee doth the right of her, &c. Cob. 6.
‘And in the vi month the Angell Gabriell was sent frō God to a citie in Galile, na­med Nazareth, to a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of Dauid, &c. Luke. 1.
‘The seede of the wo­man shall tread vppon the held of the serpent Gen. 3. ‘The angel said to him, the Lord is with thee thou valiaunt man. Judges. 6.
‘And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly con­trey to a citie of Juda, and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to passe, &c. Luke. i.
‘And Moyses returned to Jethro his father in law and sayd to hym. I pray, &c. Exo. 4. ‘My soule doth magnify the Lord, and my sprite doth re­ioyce in God my sauiour. Luke. 1.
‘When the dayes were accomplished, Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and layd him in the manger because there was no roume, &c. Lu. 2.
‘Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest, is holy ground. Exod. 3. ‘Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease &c. Num. 17.
‘And when the viii. dayes were accom­plished, that they should circumcise the childe, his name Was then called Je­sus, which was so named of the Angel, before he was concerned, &c. Luke. 2.
‘Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old, as God had cōmaunded him, &c. Gen. 21 ‘Let euery manchild among you be circumcised. That is, ve shall circumcise the fore­skin of your flesh, &c. Gen. 17
‘Where is the king of the Jewes that is borne, for we haue sene his starre in the East, and are come to worship him. When Herode the king heard this, he was troubled, & all Jeru­salem, &c. Math. 2.
‘Abner said to Dauid, make couenant with me, and be­hold, mine hand shall be with thee, &c. 2. Sam. 3. ‘The Quene of Saba bring giftes to Jerusalem to Sa­lomon, with a very great trayne, &c. 3. Reg. 10.
‘When the dayes of Purification after the law of Moses, were accomplished, they brought Jesus to Jerusalem to pre­sēt him to the lord, as it is written in the law of the lord, Luke. 2.
‘God sayd to Moses, sanctify vnto me all the first borne, that open all maner matrices among the childrē, &c. Exo. 13. ‘Anna bare a sonne & brought him into the house of the Lord in Siloh, and the childe was yong, &c. 1. Sam. 1.
‘Arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt, and be there till I bring thee word, for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him. So he arose & toke the babe & his mother, &c. Math. 2
‘Behold, thy brother E­sau is cōforted against thee, meaning to kill thee. Gen. 27. ‘Michaell spake vnto Dauid: If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow, &c. 1. Sa. 19
‘He shall breake downe their altars, he shal destroy their images. For now they shall say, we haue no king because we feared not the Lord, and what should a king do to vs? Ose. 10.
‘Moses cast the tables out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry, &c. Exo. 32. ‘The Philistines finde Dagon fallen downe be­fore the arke of the Lord &c. 1. Sam. 5.
‘Herode caused all male children to be slaine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes therof From two yeare olde and vnder, according to the tyme which he had diligently searched, &c. Mat. 2.
‘Saul sayd to Doeg, turne thou and fall vpon the priestes. And Doeg the E­domite turned, &c. 1. Sa. 22 ‘Athalia seyng her sonne to be dead, destroyed all the kinges seede. But Jehoshe­ba, &c. 4. Reg. 11.
‘The Angel sayd to Joseph: Arise and take the babe and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for they are dead which sought the babes life, Then he arose and toke the babe &c. Mat. 2
‘God spake to Jacob, Get thee out of this countrey. Ja­cob toke all his goodes and cartell. &c. Gen. 31. ‘Dauid asked counsell of the Lord, saying: Shall I go vp into any cities of Judah, &c. 1. Sam. 2.
‘And Jesus when he was baptised, came straight out of the water. And lo, the heauens were ope­ned vnto him, and John saw the spirite of God descending like a doue, &c. Math. 3.
‘Lift vp thy rodde and stretch out thine hande vpon the sea, &c. Exodus. 14. ‘They cutte downe a branche with one clu­ster of grapes, and beare it vpon, &c. Num. 13.
‘The tempter came to Christ saying: If thou be the sonne of God, commaunde that these stones be made bread. But he aunswering, sayd, it is written, Man shal not liue by bread on­ly, &c. Math. 4.
‘Esau selleth his brith right for a messe of portage, &c. Gen. 25. ‘The woman seyng the tree to be plea­saunt, toke of the fruit, &c. Gen. 3.
‘Christ cried with a loud voyce, Legarus come forth. Then he that was dead came forth, bound hand & foote with bandes and his face was bound with a nap­kin. Jesus said vnto them, &c. John. 11.
‘Helias stretched himselfe vpon the childe, and the Lord heard the voyce of Helias, &c. 3. Reg. 17. ‘Heliseus comming into the house, and behold, the childe was dead, and he stretched, &c. 4. Reg. 4.
‘He was transfigu­red before them, and his face did shine as the sunne, and his clothes were as white as the light. And beholde, there appeared vnto them Moses and E­lias, &c. Math. 17.
‘Abraham said, Lord if I haue now found fauour in thy sight, &c. Gen. 18. ‘Nabuchadneser aunswered: Lo I see foure men loose walkyng in the midst of the fire. Dan. 3.
‘Jesus sayd, Many sinnes are forgeuen her, for she loued much. To whom a little is forgeuen▪ he doth loue a litle. And he said vnto her, Thy sinnes are forgeuen thee, &c. Luke. 7
‘Dauid said to Nathan: I haue sinned against the Lord, &c. 2. Sam. 12. ‘Aaron looked vpon Mi­riam, and behold, she was leprous. Num. 12
‘When Christ came nere Jerusalem he beheld the citie and wept for it, saying: O if thou hadst euen knowen at the lest in this thy day those thinges which be­long onto thy peace &c. Luke. 19.
‘Who shall haue picie then vpon thee, O Jerusalem or who, &c. Jere. 15. ‘Their feastes are turued into lamentation, there altats, &c. 1. Macha. 1.
‘Christ riding to Je­rusalem, many spred their garmentes in the way, other cut downe branches of the trecs & strawed them in the way. And they that went before, and they that folowed, &c Mark. 11
‘The women sang by course in their play, and said: &c. 1. Sam. 28 ‘The children of the prophets came to meete Helisha, &c. 4. Reg. 2.
‘Jesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought, saying vnto them it is written, Myne house is the house of prayer, but ye haue made it a den of theues. Luke. 19
‘Is this house become a denne of theeues, wheru­pon, &c. Jere. 7. ‘Mine house shall be cal­led a house of prayer for all people, &c. Esay. 56.
‘The chiefe priestes and the Scribes and the Elders of the people, consulted how they might take Jesus by suttletie and kil him. But they said, not on the feast day, least any vprore, &c. Math. 26
‘When Josephes bre­thren saw him a farre of, &c. Gen. 37. ‘Absolon rose vp ear­ly and stode hard by the, &c. 2. Sam. 15.
‘They appointed vn­to him thirtie pieces of siluer, and from that tyme Judas sought oportunitie to betray Christ his maister. Now on the first day of the feast of vnleauened bread, &c. Math. 26
‘Judas said: Come let vs sell him to the Isma­lites, &c. Gen. 37. ‘So Jeseph was brought downe into Egipt, and Potiphar, &c. Gen. 39.
‘Jesus at his last supper as they did eate, tooke bread, & whē he had geuen thankes brake it. and gaue it to his disciples, saying: Take, eate, this is my body, &c. Math. 26.
‘Melchisedech brought forth bread and wine, and he, &c. Gen. 37. ‘Moses said to the peo­ple of Israell: This is that bread, &c. Exo. 16.
‘Jesus said: all ye shall be offended by me this night, &c. He said moreouer vnto them, sitte ye here while I go and pray yonder. And he toke Peter and the two sonnes &c. Math. 26.
‘I saw all Israell scattred as sheepe that had no shepe­heard, &c. 3. Reg. 22. ‘Helisha sayd: behold thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou, &c. 4. Reg. 7.
‘Jesus knowing all thinges that should come, went forth and said vnto them Whome seeke ye? They answered him Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus aunswered I am he. Judas also &c. John. 18.
‘The foolish virgineg came also saying Lord Lord, &c. Math. 25. ‘The great Dragon that olde serpent was cast out, &c. Reue. 12.
‘Judas had geuen them a token say­ing: Whomsoeuer I kisse, he it is, take him and lead him away. And as soone as he was come, he goeth to him and faith: Maister, mai­ster, &c. Marke. 14.
‘Joab tooke Abner aside peaceably, and smote him vnder the ribbe that he died. &c. 2. Sam. 3. ‘Simon to redeme Jona­than, sendeth mony and the children to Triphon &c. 1. Macha. 13.
‘The Jewes spate Christ in his face, and buffeted him saying: Prophecy vnto vs O Christ who is he that smote thee? Peter sate without in the hall, and a maid, &c Math. 26.
‘When Cham the father of Chanaan saw the nakednes of his father, he tolde his two brethren, &c. Gen. 10. ‘Heliseus is mocked of little children crying vnto him: Come vp thou baldhead, &c. 4. Reg. 2.
‘Pilate let Barra­bas lose vnto thē and scourged Ie­sus, and deliuered him to be crucified Then the souldi­ours of the gouer­nour toke Jesus in to the common hall, &c. Math. 27.
‘The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and furrowes long did cast, &c. Psal. iji. ‘Sathan smote Job with sore boyles frō the soule of his foot &c. Job. 2.
‘And the souldi­ours platted a crowne of thorne vpon his head, and a reede in his right hand, and bowed their knees before him and mocked him, saying: God saue, &c. Math. 27.
‘When thou hast done all thy duety, sitte downe that thou maist receiue a crowne &c. Eccle. 32. ‘Abner said vnto Dauid. who art thou that criest to the king. &c. 1. Sam. 26.
‘Pilate toke water and washed hys handes before the multitude, saying: I am innocent of the death of this iust man, looke you to it. Then answe­red all the people, &c. Math. 27.
‘Jezabell sent a messen­ger vnto Helias saying The Gods do so to me &c. 3. Reg. 19. ‘Then the king com­maunded, and they brought Daniel and cast, &c. Dan. 6.
‘And Jesus bere his crosse and came into a place named Gol gotha, where they crucified him and two other with him on either side one, and Jesus in the midst of them, &c. John. 19.
‘Abraham tooke the wood of the burnt offring, and layd it vpon Isaac his sonne, &c. Gene. 22. ‘Behold the widow was there gathering sticks, and Eliah called her, and said, &c. 3. Reg. 17.
‘And when they were come to the place which is cal­led Caluarie, there they crucified him and the euil doers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left, &c. Luke. 23.
‘Tubultaim wrought cunningly euery craft of brasse and iron, &c. Gen. 4. ‘Esay the prophet was cut in the midst with a saw, and fasted on a tree, &c.’
‘One of the souldi­with a speare pearced his side, & forth with ranne there out bloud and wa­ter. And he that saw it bare record and his recorde is true. And he that &c. John. 19.
‘With the ribbe which the Lord God had taken from the man, &c. Gen. 2. ‘The Lord said to Moses. Thou shalt smite the rocke and water, &c. Exod. 17.
‘Joseph toke the bo­dy and wrapped it it in a cleane lin­nen cloth, and layd it in his new tombe which he had hewen out euen in the rock and rolled a great stone to the dore, &c. Math. 27.
‘Assone as the sunne was downe, Josue commaun­deth that they, &c. Josu. 8 ‘Then they arose and went all night, and toke the body, &c. 1. Sam. 31
‘There was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting ouer against the se­pulchre. The nert day that followed the day of prepa­ring, the hie priestes and Pharises, &c. Math. 27.
‘She wepeth continually in the night, and her teares. &c. Lamen. 1. ‘Call me not Naomi but call me Mara, for the lord hath geuen, &c. Ruth. 1.
‘He layd it in a tomb hewen out of a rocke wherin was neuer man yet layd. And that day was the preparing of the Sa­both, & the Saboth drue on. The women that folowed after &c. Luke. 23.
‘When Joseph was come to his brethren, they stript him, &c. Gen. 37. ‘So they toke vp Jonas and cast him into the sea and the sea, &c. Jonas. 1.
‘For feare of him the kepers were a­stonied & became as dead men. But the Angell sayd to the women: Feare not, for I know you seeke Iesus which was crucified, &c. Math. 28.
‘Samson arose at mid­night and toke the dores, &c. Judicum. 16. ‘And the Lord spake vn­to the fish and it cast out Jonas, &c. Jouas. 2.
‘Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene out of whom he had cast vij. deuils. And she went and told them that had bene with him which mourned, &c. Mar. 16
‘The king said vnto Da­niell: O Daniel the ser­uaunt, &c. Daniel. 6. ‘When I had past a litle from them, then I found him, &c. Cant. 3.
‘Jesus said to Tho­mas put thy finger here and see my hands and put forth thy hand, and put it into my side, and be not faythlesse, &c. John. 20.
‘And Jacob called the name of the place Pe­niell, &c. Gen. 32. ‘Gedeon aunsuered: If the Lord be with vs, why then, &c. Jud. 6.
‘So after the Lord had spoken vnto them he was recei­ued into heauen and sate at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached, &c. Mar. 16
‘And Enoch walked with God and he was no more sene, for God tooke him away, &c. Gen. 5. ‘There appeared a charet of fire, and horses of fire, so Elias went vp by a whirle winde, &c. 2. Reg. 2.

The birth of blessed Ma­ry the virgine the mother of Christ, &c.

‘There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Jesse, and a graffe, &c. Esay. 11. ‘There shall come a sta [...] of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise of Israell, &c. Num. 24.
‘Mary the mother of Iesu betrothed to Ioseph her husband, before they came toge­ther, was founde with childe by the holy ghost. Thē Jo­seph her husband being a iust man, &c Math. 1.
‘But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house, and to my kinred, and take a wife, &c. Gen. 24. ‘I will speake for her that she may be geuen thee to wife. For to thee doth the right of her, &c. Tob. 6.
‘And in the vi month the Angell Gabriell was sent frō God to a citie in Galile, na­med Nazareth, to a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of Dauid, &c. Luke. 1.
‘The seede of the wo­man shall tread vppon the head of the serpent Gen. 3. ‘The angel said to him, the Lord is with thee thou valiaunt man. Judges. 6.
‘And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly con­trey to a citie of Juda, and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to passe, &c. Luke. 1.
‘And Moyses returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him, I pray, &c. Exo. 4. ‘My soule doth magnify the Lord, and my sprite doth re­ioyce in God my sauiour. Luke. 1.
‘When the dayes were accomplished, Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and layd him in the manger because there was no roume, &c. Lu. 2.
‘Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest, is holy ground. Exod. 3. ‘Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease &c. Num. 17.
‘And when the viii. dayes were accom­plished, that they should circumcise the childe, his name was then called Je­sus, which was so named of the Angel, before he was conceiued, &c. Luke. 2.
‘Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old, as God had cōmaunded him, &c. Gen. 21 ‘Let euery manchild among you be circumcised. That is, ye shall circumcise the fore­skin of your flesh, &c. Gen. 17
‘Where is the king▪ of the Jewes that is borne, for we haue sene his starre in the East, and are come to worship him. When Herode the king heard this, he was troubled, & all Jeru­salem &c. Mark. 2.
‘Abner said to Dauid, make couenant with me, and be­hold, mine hand shall be with thee, &c. 2. Sam. 3. ‘The Quene of Saba bring giftes to Jerusalem to Sa­lomon, with a very great trayne, &c. 3. Reg. 10.
‘When the dayes or Purification after the law of Moses, were accomplished, they brought Jesus to Jerusalem to pre­sēt him to the lord, as it is written in the law of the lord, Luke. 2.
‘God sayd to Moses, sanctify vnto me all the first borne, that open all maner matrices among the childrē, &c. Exo. 13. ‘Anna bare a sonne & brought him into the house of the Lord in Siloh, and the childe was yong, &c. 1. Sam. 1.
‘Arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt, and be there till I bring thee word, for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him. So he arose & toke the babe & his mother, &c. Math. 2
‘Behold, thy brother E­sau is cōforted against thee, meaning to kill thee. Gen. 27. ‘Michaell spake vnto Dauid: If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow, &c. 1. Sa. 19
‘He shall breake downe their altars, he shal destroy their images. For now they shall say, we haue no king because we feared not the Lord, and what should a king do to vs? Ose. 10.
‘Moses cast the tables out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry, &c. Exo. 32 ‘The Philistines finde Dagon fallen downe be­fore the arke of the Lord &c. 1. Sam. 5.
‘Herode caused all male children to be slaine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes therof from two yeare olde and vnder, according to the tyme which he had diligently searched, &c Mat. 2.
‘Saul sayd to Doeg, turne thou and fall vpon the priestes. And Doeg the E­domite turned, &c. 1. Sa. 22 ‘Athalia seyng her sonne to be dead, destroyed all the kinges seede. But Jehoshe­ba, &c. 4. Reg. 11.
‘And Jesus when he was baptised, came straight out of the water. And lo, the heauens were ope­ned vnto him, and John saw the spirite of God descending like a doue, &c. Math. 3.
‘Litt vp thy rodde and stretch out thine hande vpon the sea, &c. Exodus. 14. ‘They cutte downe a branche with one clu­ster of grapes, and beare it vpon. &c. Num. 13.
‘The Angel sayd to Joseph: Arise and take the babe and his mother and go into the land of Is­rael, for they are dead which sought the babes life. Then he arose and toke the babe &c. Mat. 2
‘God spake to Jacob, Get thee out of this countrey. Ja­cob toke all his goodes and cattell &c. Gen. 31. ‘Dauid asked counsell of the Lord, saying: Shall I go vp into any cities of Judah, &c. 2. Sam. 2.
‘The tempter came to Christ saying: If thou be the sonne of God, commaunde that these stones be made bread. But he aunswering, sayd, it is written, Man shal not liue by bread on­ly, &c. Math. 4.
‘Esau selleth his birth right for a messe of pottage, &c. Gen. 25. ‘The woman seyng the tree to be plea­saunt, toke of the fruit, &c. Gen. 3.
‘Christ cried with a loud voyce, Lazarus come forth. Then he that was dead came forth, bound hand & foote with bandes and his face was bound with a nap­kin. Jesus said vnto them, &c. John. 11.
‘Helias stretched himselfe vpon the childe, and the Lord heard the voyce of Helias, &c. 3. Reg. 17. ‘Heliseus comming into the house, and behold, the childe was dead, and he stretched, &c. 4. Reg. 4.
‘He was transfigu­red before them, and his face did shine as the sunne, and his clothes were as white as the light. And beholde, there appeared vnto them Moses and E­lias, &c. Math. 17.
‘Abraham said, Lord if I haue now found fauour in thy sight. &c. Gen. 18. ‘Nabuchadnesee aunswered: Lo I see foure men loose walking in the midst of the fire. Dan. 3.
‘Jesus sayd, Many sinnes are forgeuen her, for she loued much. To whom a little is forgeuen, he doth loue a litle. And he said vnto her, Thy sinnes are forgeuen thee, &c. Luke. 7
‘Dauid said to Nathan: I haue sinned against the Lord, &c. 2. Sam. 12 ‘Baron looked vpon Mi­riam, and behold, she was leprous. Num. 12
‘When Christ came nere Jerusalem he beheld the citie and wept for it, saying: O if thou hadst euen knowen at the lest in this thy day those thinges which be­long vnto thy peace &c. Luke. 19.
‘Who shall haue pitie then vpon thee, O Jerusalem or who, &c. Jere. 15. ‘Their feastes are turned into lamentation, their altars, &c, 1. Macha. 1.
‘Christ riding to Je­rusalem, many spred their garmentes in the way, other cut downe branches of the trees & strawed them in the way. And they that went before, and they that folowed, &c Mark. 11
‘The women sang by course in their play, and said: &c. 1. Sam. 28 ‘The children of the propheres came to meete Helisha, &c. 4. Reg. 2.
‘Jesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought, saying vnto them it is written, Myne house is the house of prayer, but ye haue made it a den of theues. Luke. 19
‘Is this house become a denue of theeues, wheru­pon, &c. Jere. 7. ‘Mine house shall be cal­led a house of prayer for all people, &c. Esay. 56.
‘The chiefe priestes and the Scribes and the Elders of the people, consulted how they might take Jesus by suttletie and kil him. But they said, not on the feast day, least any vprore, &c. Math. 26
‘When Josephes bre­thren saw him a farre of, &c. Gen. 37 ‘Absolon rose vp ear­ly and stode hard by the, &c. 2. Sam. 15.
‘They appointed vn­to him thirtie pieces of siluer, and from that tyme Judas sought oportunitie to betray Christ his maister. Now on the first day of the feast of vnleauened bread, &c. Math. 26
‘Judas said: Come let vs sell him to the Isma­lites, &c. Gen. 37 ‘So Joseph was brought downe into Egipt, and Potiphar, &c. Gen. 39.
‘Jesus at his last supper as they did eate, tooke bread, & whē he had geuen thankes brake it, and gaue it to his disciples, saying: Take, eate, this is my body, &c. Math. 26.
‘Melchisedech brought forth bread and wine, and he, &c. Gen. 37. ‘Moses said to the peo­ple of Israell: This is that bread, &c. Exo. 16
‘Jesus said: all ye shall be offended by me this night &c. He said moreouer vnto them, sitte ye here while I go and pray yonder. And he toke Peter and the two sonnes &c. Math. 26.
‘I saw all Israell scad [...]red sheepe that had no shepe­heard, &c. 3. Reg. 22. ‘Helisha sayd: behold thou shalt see it with thine eyes but thou, &c. 4. Reg. 7
‘Jesus knowing all thinges that should come, went forth and said vnto them whome seeke ye? They answered him Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus aunswered I am he. Judas also &c. John. 18.
‘The foolish virgines came also saying, Lord Lord, &c. Math. 25. ‘The great Dragon that olde serpent was cast out, &c. Ruee. 12.
‘Judas had geuen them a token say­ing: Whomsoeuer I kisse, he it is, take him and lead him away. And as soone as he was come, he goeth to him and saith: Maister, mai­ster, &c. Marke. 14.
‘Joab tooke Abner aside peaceably, and smote him vnder the ribbe that he died. &c. 2. Sam. 3. ‘Simon to redeme Jona­than, sendeth mony and the children to Triphon &c. 1. Macha. 13.
‘The Jewes spate Christ in his face, and buffeted him saying: Prophecy vnto vs O Christ who is he that smote thee? Peter sate without in the hall, and a maid, &c Math. 26.
‘When Cham the father of Chanaan saw the nakednes of his father, he told his two brethren, &c Gen. 10 ‘Heliseus is mocked of little children crying vnto him: Come vp thou baldhead, &c. 4. Reg. 2.
‘Pilate let Barra­bas lose vnto thē and scourged Je­sus, and deliuered him to be crucified Then the souldi­ours of the gouer­nour toke Jesus in to the common hall, &c. Math. 27.
‘The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and furrowes long did cast, &c. Psal. 131. ‘Sathan smote Job with sore boyles frō the soule of his foot &c. Job. 2.
‘And the souldi­ours platted a crowne of thorne vpon his head, and a reede in his right hand, and bowed their knee before him and mocked him, saying: God saue, &c. Math. 27
‘When thou hast done all thy duety, sitte downe that thou maist receue a crowne &c. Eccle. 32 ‘Abner said vnto Dauid, who art thou that criest to the king, &c. 1. Sam. 26.
‘Pilate toke water and washed hys handes before the multitude, saying: I am innocent of the death of this iust man, looke you to it. Then answe­red all the people, &c. Math. 27.
‘Jezabell sent a messen­ger vnto Helias saying The Gods do so to me &c. 3. Reg. 19. ‘Then the king com­maunded, and they brought Daniel and cast, &c. Dan. 6.
‘And Jesus bare his crosse and came into a place named Gol­gotha, where they crucified him and two other with him on either side one, and Jesus in the midst of them, &c. John. 19.
‘Abraham tooke the wood of the burnt offring, and layd it vpon Isaac his sonne, &c. Gene. 22. ‘Behold the widow was there gathering sticks, and Eliah called her, and said, &c. 3. Reg. 17.
‘And when they were come to the place which is cal­led Caluarie, there they crucified him and the euil doers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left, &c. Luke. 23.
‘Tubultaim wrought cunningly euery craft of brasse and iron, &c. Gen. 4. ‘Esay the prophet was cut in the midst with a saw, and fasted on a tree, &c.’
‘One of the souldi­ours with a speare pearced his side, & forthwith ran there our bloud and wa­ter. And he that saw it bare record and his recorde is true. And he that &c. John. 19.
‘With the ribbe which the Lord God had taken from the man, &c Gen. 2. ‘The Lord said to Moses Thou shalt smite the rocke and water, &c Exo. 17
‘Joseph toke the bo­dy and wrapped it in a cleane lin­nen cloth, and layd it in his new tombe which he had hewen out euen in the rock and rolled a great stone to the dore, &c. Math. 27.
‘Assone as the sunne was downe, Josne commaun­deth that they, &c. Josu. 8 ‘Then they arose and went all night, and toke the body, &c. 1. Sam. 31
‘There was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting ouer against the se­pulchre. The next day that followed the day of prepa­ring, the hie priestes and Pharises, &c. Math. 27.
‘She wepeth continually in the night, and her teares. &c. Lamen. 1. ‘Call me not Naomi, but call me Mara, for the lord hath geuen, &c. Ruth. 1.
‘He layd it in a tomb hewen out of a rocke wherin was neuer man yet layd. And that day was the preparing of the Sa­both, & the Saboth drue on. The women that folowed after &c. Luke. 23.
‘When Joseph was come to his brethren, they stript him, &c. Gen. 37. ‘So they toke vp Jonas and cast him into the sea and the sca, &c. Jonas.
‘For feare of him the kepers were a­stonied & became as dead men. But the Angell sayd to the women: Feare not, for I know you seeke Jesus which was crucified, &c. Math. 28.
‘Samson arose at mid­night and toke the dores, &c. Judicum. 16. ‘And the Lord spake vn­to the fish and it cast out Jonas, &c. Jonas. 2.
‘Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene out of whom he had cast vij. deuils. And she went and told them that had bene with him which mourned, &c. Mar. 16
‘The king said vnto Da­niell: O Daniel the ser­uaunt, &c. Daniel. 6. ‘When I had past a litle from them, then I found him, &c. Cant. 3.
‘Jesus said to Tho­mas put thy finger here and see my hands and put forth thy hand, and put it into my side, and be not faythlesse, &c. John. 20.
‘And Jacob called the name of the place Pe­niell, &c. Gen. 32. ‘Gedeon aunswered: he Lord be with vs why then, &c. Jud. 6.
‘So after the Lord had spoken vnto them he was recei­ued into heauen and sate at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached, &c. Mar. 16
‘Ano Enoch walked with God, and he was no more sene, for God tooke him away, &c. Gen. 5. ‘There appeared a charet of fire, and horses of fire, so Elias went vp by a whirl­wind. &c 2. Reg. 2
‘Behold a woman a Cananite, came out of the sea coastes, and cried, saying vn­to him: Haue mercy on me O Lord, &c. Math. 15.
‘A certayne man was di­seased 38. yeares, when Jesus saw him lie and knew, &c. John. 5. ‘And in the fourth watch of the night, Jesus went vnto them, walkyng on the sea, &c Math. 14
‘Mary stoode at the sepulcher wepyng, and as she wept, she bowed her selfe into the sepulcher and saw two aungels in white sitting, the one &c. John. 20.
‘Ruben returned to the pit, and behold Joseph was not in the pit, &c. Gen. 37. ‘I will seeke him that my soule loueth: I sought him but I found him not, &c. Cant. 3.
‘And he tooke the v. loaues and two fishes and looked vp to hea­uen and blessed, and brake, and gaue the loaues to his disciples and the disciples, &c. Math. 14.
‘He that is without fault let him cast the first stone, &c. John. 8. ‘Jesus seyng their faith, said to the sicke of the palsey, sonne, &c. Math. 9.

The birth of blessed Ma­ry the virgine the mother of Christ, &c.

‘There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Jesse, and a graffe, &c. Esay. 11. ‘There shall come a star of Jacob, and a scepter shall ryse of Israell: &c Num. 24.
‘Mary the mother of Jesu betrothed to Joseph her husband, before they came toge­ther, was founde with childe by the holy ghost. Thē Jo­seph her husband being a iust man, &c Math. 1.
‘But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house, and to my kinred, and take a wife, &c. Gen. 24. ‘I will speake for her that she may be geuen ther to wife. For to thee doth the light of ber, &c. Tob. 6
‘And in the vi month the Angell Gabriell was sent frō God to a citie in Galile, na­med Nazareth, to a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of Dauid, &c. Luke. 1.
‘The seede of the wo­man shall tread vppon the head of the serpent Gen. 3. ‘The angel said to him, the Lord is with thee thou valiaunt man. Judges. 6
‘And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly con­trey to a citie of Juda, and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to passe, &c. Luke. 1.
‘And Moyses returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him, I pray, &c. Ero. 4. ‘My soule doth magnify the Lord, and my sprite doth re­ioyce in God my sauiour. Luke. 1.
‘When the dayes were accomplished, Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and layd him in the manger because there was no roume, &c. Lu. 2.
‘Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest, is holy ground. Exod. 3. ‘Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease &c. Num. 17.
‘And when the viii. dayes were accom­plished, that they should circumcise the childe, his name was then called Je­sus, which was so named of the Angel, before he was conceiued, &c. Luke. 2.
‘Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old, as God had cōmaunded him, &c. Gen. 21 ‘Let euery manchild among you be circumcised: That is, ye shall circumcise the fore­skin of your flesh, &c. Gen. 17
‘Where is the king of the Jewes that is borne, for we haue sent his starre in the East, and are come to worship him. When Herode the king heard this, he was troubled, & all Jeru­salem, &c. Math. 2.
‘Abner said to Dauid, make couenant with me, and be­hold, mine hand shall be with thee, &c. 2. Sam. 3. ‘The Quene of Saba bring giftes to Jerusalem to Sa­lomon, with a very great trayne, &c. 3. Reg. 10.
‘When the dayes of Purification after the law of Moses, were accomplished, they brought Jesus to Jerusalem to pre­sēt him to the lord, as it is written in the law of the lord, Luke. 2.
‘God sayd to Moses, sanctify vnto me all the first borne, that open all maner matrices among the childrē, &c. Exo. 13. ‘Anna bare a sonne & brought him into the house of the Lord in Siloh, and the childe was yong, &c. 1. Sam. 1.
‘Arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt, and be there till I bring thee word, for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him. So he arose & toke the babe & his mother, &c Math. 2
‘Behold, thy brother E­sau is cōforted against thee, meaning to kill thee. Gen. 27. ‘Michaell spake vnto Dauid: If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow, &c. 1. Sa. 19
‘He shall breake downe their altars, he shal destroy their images. For now they shall say, we haue no king because we feared not the Lord, and what should a king do to vs? Ose. 10.
‘Moses cast the tables out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry, &c. Exo. 32 ‘The Philistines finde Dagon fallen downe be­fore the arke of the Lord &c. 1. Sam. 5.
‘Herode caused all male children to be slaine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes therof from two yeare olde and vnder, according to the tyme which he had diligently searched, &c. Mat. 2.
‘Saul sayd to Doeg, turne thou and fall vpon the priestes. And Doeg the E­domite turned, &c. 1. Sa. 22 ‘Athalia seyng her sonne to be dead, destroyed all the kinges seede. But Jehoshe­ba, &c. 4. Reg. 11.
‘And Jesus when he was baptised, came straight out of the water. And lo, the heauens were ope­ned vnto him, and John saw the spirite of God descending like a doue, &c. Math. 1.
‘Lift vp thy rodde and stretch out thine hands vpon the sea, &c. Exodus. 14. ‘They cutte downe a branche with one clu­ster of grapes, and beare it vpon, &c. Num. 13.
‘The Angel sayd to Joseph: Arise and take the babe and his mother and go into the land of Is­rael, for they are dead which sought the babes life. Then he arose and toke the babe &c. Mat. 2
‘God spake to Jacob, Get thee out of this countrey. Ja­cob toke all his goodes and cattell. &c. Gen. 31. ‘Dauid asked counsell of the Lord, saying: Shall I go vp into any cities of Judah, &c. 2. Sam. 2.
‘The tempter came to Christ saying: If thou be the sonne of God, commaunde that these stones be made bread. But he aunswering, sayd, it is written, Man shal not liue by bread on­ly, &c. Math. 4.
‘Esau selleth his birth right for a messe of pottage, &c. Gen. 25. ‘The woman seyng the tree to be plea­saunt, toke of the fruit, &c. Gen. 3.
‘Christ cried with a loud voyce, Lazarus come forth. Then he that was dead came forth. bound hand & foote with bandes and his face was bound with a nap­kin. Jesus said vnto them, &c. John. 11.
‘Helias stretched himselfe vpon the childe, and the Lord heard the voyce of Helias, &c. 3. Reg. 17. ‘Heliseus comming into the house, and behold, the childe was dead, and he stretched, &c. 4. Reg. 4.
‘He was transfigu­red before them, and his face did shine as the sunne, and his clothes were as white as the light. And beholde, there appeared vnto them Moses and E­lias, &c. Math. 17.
‘Abraham said, Lord if I haue now found fauour in thy sight. &c. Gen. 18. ‘Nabuchadneser aunswered: Lo I see foure men loose walking in the midst of the fire. Dan. 3.
‘Arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt, and be there till I bring thee word, for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him. So he arose & toke the babe & his mother, &c. Math. 2
‘Behold, thy brother E­sau is cōforted against thee, meaning to kill thee. Gen. 27. ‘Michaell spake vnto Dauid: If thou saue not thy, self this night to morrow, &c. 1. Sa. 19
‘He shall breake downe their altars, he shal destroy their images. For now they shall say, we haue no king because we feared not the Lord▪ and what should a king do to vs Ose. 10.
‘Moses cast the tables out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry, &c. Exo. 32. ‘The Philistines finde Dagon fallen downe be­fore the arke of the Lord &c. 1. Sam. 5.
‘Herode caused all male children to be slaine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes therof from two yeare olde and vnder, according to the tyme which he had diligently searched, &c Mat. 2.
‘Saul sayd to Doeg, turne thou and fall vpon the priestes. And Doeg the E­comite turned, &c. 1. Sa. 22 ‘Athalis sayng her sonne to be dead, destroyed all the kinges seede. But Jehoshe­ba, &c. 4. Reg. 11.
‘The angel sayd to Joseph: Arise and take the babe and his mother and go into the land of Israel, for they are dead which soughth the babes life, Then he arose and toke the babe &c. Mat. 2
‘God spake to Jacob, Get thee out of this countrey. Ja­cob toke all his goodes and cattell, &c. Gen. 31. ‘Dauid asked counsell of the Lord, saying: Shall I go vp into any cities of Judah, &c. 2. Sam. 2.
‘And Jesus when he was baptised, came straight out of the water. And lo, the heauens were ope­ned vnto him, and John saw the spirite of God descending like a doue, &c. Math. 3.
‘Lift vp thy rodde and stretch out thine hande vpon the sea, &c. Exodus. 14. ‘They cutte downe a branche with one clu­ster of grapes, and beare it vpon, &c. Num. 13.
‘The tempter came to Christ saying: If thou be the sonne of God, commaunde that these stoues be made bread. But he aunswering, sayd, it is written, Man shal not liue by bread on­ly, &c. Math. 4.
‘Esau selleth his birth right for a messe of pottage, &c. Gen. 25. ‘The woman seyng the tree to be plea­saunt, toke of the fruit, &c. Gen. 3.
‘Christ cried with a loud voyce, Lazarus come forth. Then he that was dead came forth, bound hand & foote with bandes and his face was bound with a nap­kin. Jesus said vnto them, &c. John. 11.
‘Helias stretched himselfe vpon the childe, and the Lord heard the voyce of Helias, &c. 3. Reg. 17. ‘Heliseus comming into the house, and behold, the childe was dead, and he stretched, &c. 4. Reg. 4.
‘He was transfigu­red before them, and his face did shine as the sunne, and his clothes were as white as the light. And beholde, there appeared vnto them Moses and E­lias, &c. Math. 17.
‘Abraham said, Lord if I haue now found fauour in thy sight. &c. Gen. 18. ‘Nabuchadneset aunswered: Lo I see foure men loose walking in the midst of the fire. Dan. 3
‘Jesus sayd, Many sinnes are forgeuen her, for she loued much. To whom a little is forgeuen. he doth loue a litle. And he said vnto her, Thy sinnes are forgeuen thee, &c. Luke. 7
‘Dauid said to Nathan: I haue sinned against the Lord, &c. 2. Sam. 12. ‘Aaron looked vpon Mi­riam and behold, she was leprous. Num. 12
‘When Christ came nere Jerusalem he beheld the citie and wept for it, saying: O if thou hadst euen knowen at the lest in this thy day those thinges which be­long vnto thy peace &c. Luke. 19.
‘Who shall haue pitie then vpon thee, O Jerusalem or who, &c. Jere. 15. ‘Their feastes are turned into lamentation, there altars, &c, 1. Macha. 1.
‘Christ riding to Je­rusalem, many spred their garmentes in the way, other cut downe branches of the trees & strawed them in the way. And they that went before, and they that folowed, &c Mark. 11
‘The women sang by course in their play, and said: &c. 1. Sam. 28 ‘The children of the prophets came to meete Helisha, &c. 4. Reg. 2.
‘Jesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought, saying vnto them it is written, Myne house is the house of prayer, but ye haue made it a den of theues. Luke. 10
‘Is this house become a denne of theeues wheru­pon, &c. Jere. 7. ‘Mine house shall be cal­led, a house of prayer for all people, &c. Esay. 56.
‘The chiefe priestes and the Scribes and the Elders of the people, consulted how they might take Jesus by suttletie and kil him. But they said, not on the feast day, least any vprore, &c. Math. 26
‘When Josephes bre­thren saw him a farre of, &c. Gen. 37. ‘Absolon rose vp ear­ly and stode hard by the, &c. 2. Sam. 15.
‘They appointed vn­to him thirtie pieces of siluer, and from that tyme Judas sought oportunitie to betray Christ his maister. Now on the first day of the feast of vnleauened bread, &c. Math. 26
‘Judas said: Come let vs sell him to the Isma­lites, &c. Gen. 37. ‘So Joseph was brought downe into Egipt, and Potiphar, &c. Gen. 39.
‘Jesus at his last supper as they did eate, tooke bread, & whē he had geuen thankes brake it, and gaue it to his disciples, saying: Take, eate, this is my body, &c. Math. 26.
‘Melchifedeth brought forth bread and wine, and he, &c. Gen. 37. ‘Moses said to the peo­ple of Israell? This is that bread, &c. Exo. 16
‘Jesus said: all ye shall be offended by me this night, &c. He said moreouer vnto them, sitte ye here while I go and pray yonder. And he toke Peter and the two sonnes &c. Math. 26.
‘I saw all Israell scattred as sheepe that had no shepe­heard, &c. 3. Reg. 22. ‘Helisha sayd: behold thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but thou, &c. 4. Reg. 7.
‘Jesus knowing all thinges that should come, went forth and said vnto them Whome seeke ye? They answered him Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus aunswered I am he. Judas also &c. John. 18.
‘The foolish virgines came also saying, Lord Lord, &c. Math. 25. ‘The great Dragon that olde serpent was cast out, &c. Reue. 12.
‘Judas had geuen them a token say­ing: whomsoeuer I kisse, he it is, take him and lead him away, and as soone as he was come, he goeth to him and saith: Maister, mai­ster, &c. Marke. 14.
‘Joad tooke Abner aside peaceably, and smote him vnder the ribbe that he died. &c. 2. Sam. 3. ‘Simon to redeme Jona­than, sendeth mony and the children to Triphon &c. 1. Macha. 13.
‘The Jewes spate Christ in his face, and buffeted him saying: Prophecy vnto vs O Christ who is he that smote thee? Peter sate without in the hall, and a maid, &c Math. 26.
‘When Cham the rather of Chanaan saw the nakednes of his father, he tolde his two brethren, &c. Gen. 10. ‘Heliseus is mocked of little children crying vnto him: Come vp thou baldhead, &c. 4. Reg. 2.
‘Pilate let Barra­bas lose vnto thē and scourged Je­sus, and deliuered him to be crucified Then the souldi­ours of the gouer­nour toke Jesus in to the common hall, &c. Math. 27.
‘The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and furrowes long did cast, &c. Psal. 131. ‘Sathan smote Job with sore boyles frō the soule of his foot &c. Job. 2.
‘And the souldi­ours platted a crowne of chorne vpon his head, and a reede in his right hand, and bowed their knees before him and mocked him, saying: God saue, &c. Math. 27
‘When thou hast done all thy duety, sitte downe that thou maist receue a crowne &c. Eccle. 32. ‘Abner said vnto Dauid, who art thou that criest to the king, &c. 1. Sam. 26
‘Pilate toke water and washed hys handes before the multitude, saying: I am innocent of the death of this iust man, looke you to it. Then answe­red all the people. &c. Math. 27.
‘Jezabeli sent a messen­ger vnto Helias saying The Gods do so to me &c. 3. Reg. 19. ‘Then the king com­maunded, and they brought Daniel and cast, &c. Dan. 6.
‘And Jesus bare his crosse and came into a place named Gol­gotha, where they crucified him and two other with him. in either side one, and Jesus in the midst of them, &c. John. 19.
‘Abraham tooke the wood of the burnt offring. and layd it vpon Isaac his sonne, &c. Gene. 22. ‘Behold the widow was there gathering sticks, and Eliah called her, and said, &c. 3. Reg. 17.
‘And when they were come to the place which is cal­led Caluarie, there they crucified him and the euil doers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left, &c. Luke. 23.
‘Tubultaim wrought cunningly euery craft of brasse and iron, &c. Gen. 4. ‘Esay the prophet was cut in the midst with a saw, and fasted on a tre. &c.’
‘One of the souldi­ours with a speare pearced his side, & forthwith ran there out bloud and wa­ter. And he that saw it bare record and his recorde is true. And he that &c. John. 19.
‘With the ribbe which the Lord God had taken from the man, &c Gen. 2. ‘The Lord said to Moses Thou shalt smite the rocke and water, &c Exo. 17
‘Joseph toke the bo­dy and wrapped it it in a cleane lin­nen cloth, and lard it in his new tombe which he had hewen out euen in the rock and rolled a great stone to the dore, &c. Math. 27.
‘Assone as the sunne was downe. Josue commaun­deth that they, &c. Josu. 8 ‘Then they arose and went all night, and toke the body, &c. 1. Sam. 31
‘There was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting ouer against the se­pulchre. The next day that followed the day of prepa­ring, the hie priestes and Pharises, &c. Math. 27.
‘She wepeth continually in the night, and her teares. &c. Lamen. 1. ‘Call me not Naomi, but call me Mara, for the lord hath geuen, &c. Ruth. 1.
‘He layd it in a tomb hewen out of a rocke wherein was neuer man yet layd. And that day was the preparing of the Sa­both, & the Saboth drue on. The women that folowed after &c. Luke. 23.
‘When Joseph was come to his brethren, they stript him, &c. Gen. 37. ‘So they toke vp Jonas and cast him into the sea and the sea, &c. Jonas. 1.
‘For feare of him the kepers were a­stonied & became as dead men. But the Angell sayd to the women: Feare not, for I know you seeke Jesus which was crucified, &c. Math. 28.
‘Samson arose at mid­night and toke the dores, &c. Judicum. 16. ‘And the Lord spake vn­to the fish and it cast out Jonas, &c. Jonas. 2.
‘Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene out of whom he had cast vij. deuils. And she went and told them that had bene with him which mourned, &c. Mar. 16
‘The king said vnto Da­niell: O Daniel the ser­uaunt, &c. Daniel. 6. ‘When I had past a litle from them, then I found him, &c. Cant. 3.
‘Jesus said to Tho­mas put thy finger here and see my hands and put forth thy hand, and put it into my side, and be not faythlesse, &c. John. 20.
‘And Jacob called the name of the place Pe­niell, &c. Gen. 32. ‘Gedeon aunswered: If the Lord be with vs, why then, &c. Jud. 6.
‘So after the Lord had spoken vnto them he was recei­ued into heauen and sate at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached, &c. Mar. 16
‘And Enoch walke [...] [...]ith God, and he was no more sene, for God tooke him away, &c. Gen. [...] ‘There appeared a charet o [...] fire, and horses of fire, so Elias went vp by a whirle­minde. 2. Reg. 2.

The birth of blessed Ma­ry the virgine the mother of Christ, &c.

‘There shall come a rod forth of the stocke of Jesse, and a graffe, &c. Esay. 11. ‘There shall come a star of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise of Israell, &c. Num. 24.
‘Mary the mother of Jesu betrothed to Joseph her husband, before they came toge­ther, was founde with childe by the holy ghost. Thē Jo­seph her husband being a iust man, &c. Math. 1.
‘But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house, and to my kinred, and take a wife, &c. Gen. 24. ‘I will speake for her thac she may be geúen thee to wife. For to thee doth the right of her, &c. Tob. 6
‘And in the vi month the Angell Gabriell was sent frō God to a citie in Galile, na­med Nazareth, to a virgine affianced to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of Dauid, &c. Luke. 1.
‘The seede of the wo­man shall tread vppon the head of the serpent Gen. 3. ‘The angel said to him, the Lord is with thee thou valiaunt man. Judges. 6.
‘And Mary arose and went with hast into the hilly con­trey to a citie of Juda, and entred into the house of Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth. And it came to passe, &c. Luke. i.
‘And Moyses returned to Jethro his father in law and said to him, I pray, &c. Exo. 4. ‘My soule doth magnify the Lord, and my sprite doth re­ioyce in God my sauiour. Luke. 1.
‘When the dayes were accomplished, Mary brought forth her first begotten sonne and wrapped him in swadling clothes, and layd him in the manger because there was no roume, &c. Lu. 2.
‘Put thy shoes of thy feete for the place wheron thou standest, is holy ground. Exod. 3. ‘Aarons rod being put in the tabernacle did blossom and I will make cease &c. Num. 17.
‘And when the viii. dayes were accom­plished, that they should circumcise the childe, his name was then called Je­sus, which was so named of the Angel, before he was conceiued, &c. Luke. 2.
‘Abraham circumcised his sonne Isaac when he was eight dayes old, as God had cōmaunded him, &c. Gen. 21 ‘Let euery manchild among you [...] circumcised. That is ye shall circumcise the fore­skin of your flesh, &c. Gen. 17
‘Where is the king of the Jewes that is borne, for we haue sene his starre in the East, and are come to worship him. When Herode the king heard this, he was troubled, & all Jeru­salem &c. Math. 2.
‘Abner said to Dauid, make couenaut with me, and be­hold, mine hand shall be with thee. &c. 2. Sam. 3. ‘The Quene of Saba bring giftes to Jerusalem to Sa­lomon, with a very great trayne, &c. 3. Reg. 10.
‘When the dayes of Purification after the law of Moses, were accomplished, they brought Jesus to Jerusalem to pre­sēt him to the lord, as it is written in the law of the lord, Luke. 2.
‘God sayd to Moses, sanctify vnto me all the first borne, that open all maner matrices among the childrē, &c. Exo. 13. ‘Anna bare a sonne & brought him into the house of the Lord in Siloh, and the childe was youg, &c. 1. Sam. 1.
‘Arise and take the babe and his mother and flie into Egipt, and be there till I bring thee word, for Herode will seeke the babe to destroy him. So he arose & toke the babe & his mother, &c. Math. 2.
‘Behold, thy brother E­sau is cōforted against thee, meaning to kill thee. Gen. 27. ‘Michaell spake vnto Dauid: If thou saue not thy self this night to morrow, &c. 1. Sa. 19
‘He shall breake downe their altars, he shal destroy their images. For now they shall say, we haue no king because we feared not the Lord, and what should a king do to vs? Ose. 10.
‘Moses cast the tables out of his handes and brake them in pieces because of their idolatry, &c. Exo. 32. ‘The Philistines finde Dagon fallen downe be­fore the arke of the Lord &c. 1. Sam. 5.
‘Herode caused all male children to be slaine that were in Bethlehem and in all the costes therof from two yeare olde and vnder, according to the tyme which he had diligently searched, &c. Mat. 2.
‘Saul sayd to Doeg, turne thou and fall vpon the priestes. And Doeg the E­domite turned, &c. 1. Sa. 22 ‘Athalia seyng her sonne to be dead, destroyed all the kinges seede. But Jehoshe­ba, &c. 4. Reg. 11.
‘The angel sayd to Joseph: Arise and take the babe and his mother▪ and go into the land of Israel, for they are dead which sought the babes life, Then he arose and toke the babe &c. Mat. 2
‘God spake to Jacob, Get thee out of this countrey. Ja­cob toke all his goodes and cattell▪ &c. Gen. 31. ‘Dauid asked counsell of the Lord, saying: Shall I go vp into any cities of Judah, &c. 2. Sam. 2.
‘And Jesus when he was baptised, came straight out of the water. And lo, the heauens were ope­ned vnto him, and John saw the spirite of God descending like a doue, &c. Math. 3.
‘Lift vp thy rodde and stretch out thine hande vpon the sea, &c. Exodus. 14. ‘They cutte downe a branche with one clu­ster of grapes, and beare it vpon. &c. Num. 13.
‘The tempter came to Christ saying: If thou be the sonne of God, commaunde that these stones be made bread. But he aunswering, sayd, it is written, Man shal not liue by bread on­ly, &c. Math. 4.
‘Esauselleth his birth right for a messe of pottage, &c. Gen. 25. ‘The woman seyng the tree to be plea­saunt, toke of the fruit, &c. Gen. 3.
‘Christ cried with a loud voyce, Lazarus come forth. Then he that was dead came forth▪ bound hand & foote with bandes and his face was bound with a nap­kin. Jesus said vnto them, &c. John. 11.
‘Helias stretched himselfe vpon the childe, and the Lord heard the voyce of Helias, &c. 3. Reg. 17. ‘Heliseus comming into the house, and behold, the childe was dead, and he stretched, &c. 4. Reg. 4.
‘He was transfigu­red before them, and his face did shine as the sunne, and his clothes were as white as the light. And beholde, there appeared vnto them Moses and E­lias, &c. Math. 17.
‘Abraham said, Lord if I haue now found fauour in thy sight. &c. Gen. 13. ‘Nabuchadneser aunswered: Lo I see foure men loose walking in the midst of the fire. Dan. 3.
‘Jesus sayd, Many sinnes are forgeuen her, for she loued much. To whom a little is forgeuen, he doth loue a litle. And he said vnto her, Thy sinnes are forgeuen thee, &c. Luke. 7.
‘Dauid said to Nathan: I haue sinned against the Lord, &c. 2. Sam. 12 ‘Aaron looked vpon Mi­riam, and behold, she was leprous. Num. 12
‘When Christ came nere Jerusalem he beheld the citie and wept for it, saying: O if thou hadst euen knowen at the lest in this thy day those thinges which be­long vnto thy peace &c. Luke. 19.
‘Who shall haue pitie then vpon thee, O Jerusalem or who, &c. Jere. 15. ‘Their feastes are turned into lamentation, their altars, &c. 1. Macha. 1.
‘Christ riding to Je­rusalem, many spred their garmentes in the way, other cut downe branches of the trees & strawed them in the way. And they that went before, and they that folowed, &c Mark. 11
‘The women sang by course in their play, and said: &c. 1. Sam. 28 ‘The children of the prophetes came to meete Helisha, &c. 4. Reg. 2.
‘Jesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold and bought, saying vnto them it is written, Myne house is the house of prayer, but ye haue made it a den of theues. Luke. 19
‘Is this house become a denne of theeues, wheru­pon, &c. Jere. 7. ‘Mine house shall be cal­led a house of prayer for all people, &c. Esay. 56.
‘The chiefe priestes and the Scribes and the Elders of the people, consulted how they might take Jesus by suttletie and kil him. But they said, not on the feast day, least any vprore, &c. Math. 26
‘When Josephes bre­thren saw him a farre of, &c. Gen. 37 ‘Absolon rose vp ear­ly and stode hard by the, &c. 2. Sam. 15.
‘They appointed vn­to him thirtie pieces of siluer, and from that tyme Judas sought oportunitie to betray Christ his maister. Now on the first day of the feast of vnleauened bread, &c. Math. 26
‘Judas said: Come let vs sell him to the Isina­lites, &c. Gen. 37 ‘So Joseph was brought downe into Egipt, and Potiphar, &c. Gen. 39.
‘Jesus at his last supper as they did eate, tooke bread, & whē he had geuen thankes brake it, and gaue it to his disciples, saying: Take, eate, this is my body, &c. Math. 26.
‘Melchisedech brought forth bread and wine, and he, &c. Gen. 37. ‘Moses said to the peo­ple of Israell: This is that bread, &c. Exo. 16
‘Jesus said: all ye shall be offended by me this night▪ &c. He said moreouer vnto them, sitte ye here while I go and pray yonder. And he toke Peter and the two sonnes &c. Math. 26.
‘I saw all Israell [...]ed a [...] sheepe that had no shepe­heard, &c. 3. Reg. 22. [...] sayd: behold thou shalt see it with thine eyes but thou, &c. 4. Reg. 7
‘Jesus knowing all thinges that should come, went forth and said vnto them Whome seeke ye? They answered him Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus aunswered I am he. Judas also &c. John. 18.
‘The foolish virgines came also saying, Lord Lord, &c. Math. 25. ‘The great Dragon that olde serpent was cast out, &c. Ruee. 12.
‘Judas had geuen them a token say­ing: whomsoeuer I kisse, he it is, take him and lead him away. And as soone as he was come, he goeth to him and saith: Maister, mai­ster, &c. Marke. 14.
‘Joab tooke Abner aside peaceably, and smote him under the ribbe that he died. &c. 2. Sam. 3. ‘Simon to redeme Jona­than, sendeth mony and the children to Triphon &c. 1. Macha. 13.
‘The Jewes spate Christ in his face, and buffeted him saying: Prophecy vnto vs O Christ who is he that smore thee? Peter sate without in the hall, and a maid, &c Math. 26.
‘When Cham the father of Chanaan saw the nakedues of his father, he told his two brethren, &c Gen. 10 ‘Heliseus is mocked of little children crying vnto him: Come by thou baldhead, &c. 4. Reg. 2.
‘Pilate let Barra­bas lose vnto thē and scourged Je­sus, and deliuered him to be crucified Then the souldi­ours of the gouer­nour toke Jesus in to the common hall, &c. Math. 27.
‘The plowers plowed vpon my backe, and furrowes long did cast, &c. Psal. 131. ‘Sathan smote Job with sore boyles frō the soule of his foot &c. Job. 2.
‘And the souldi­ours platted a crowne of thorne vpon his head, and a reede in his right hand, and bowed their knees before him and mocked him, saying: God saue, &c. Math. 27
‘When thou hast done all thy duety, sitte downe that thou maist receue a crowne &c. Eccle. 32 ‘Abner said vnto Dauid, who art thou that cried to the king, &c. 1. Sam. 26.
‘Pilate toke water and washed hys handes before the multitude, saying: I am innocent of the death of this iust man, looke you to it. Then answe­red all the people, &c. Math. 27.
‘Jezabell sent a messen­ger vnto Helias; saying The Gods do so to me &c. 3. Reg. 19. ‘Then the king com­maunded, and they brought Daniel and cast, &c. Dan. 6.
‘And Jesus bare his crosse and came into a place named Gol­gotha, where they crucified him and two other with him on either side one, and Jesus in the midst of them, &c. John. 19.
‘Abraham tooke the wood of the burnt offring, and layd it vpon Isaac his sonne, &c. Gene. 22. ‘Behold the widow was there gathering sticks, and Eliah called her, and said, &c. 3. Reg. 17.
‘And when they were come to the place which is cal­led Caluarie, there they crucified him and the euil doers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left, &c. Luke. 23.
‘Tubultaim wrought cunningly euery craft of brasse and iron, &c. Gen. 4. ‘Esay the prophet was cut in the midst with a saw, and fasted on a tree, &c.’
‘One of the souldi­ours with a speare pearced his side, & forth with ran there out bloud and wa­ter. And he that saw it bare record and his recorde is true. And he that &c. John. 19.
‘With the ribbe which the Lord God had taken from the man, &c Gen. 2. ‘The Lord said to Moses Thou shalt smite the rocke and water, &c Exo. 17
‘Joseph toke the bo­dy and wrapped it in a cleane lin­ten cloth, and layd it in his new tombe which he had hewen out euen in the rock and rolled a great stone to the dore, &t. Math. 27.
‘Assone as the sunne was downe, Josue commaun­deth that they, &c. Josu. 8 ‘Then they arose and went all night, and toke the body, &c. 1. Sam. 31
‘There was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting ouer against the se­pulchre. The next day that followed the day of prepa­ring, the hie priestes and Pharises, &c. Math. 27.
‘She wepeth continually in the night, and her teares. &c. Lamen. 1. ‘Call me not Naomi, but call me Mara for the lord hath geuen, &c. Ruth. 1.
‘He layd it in a tomb hewen out of a rocke wherin was neuer man yet layd. And that day was the preparing of the Sa­both, & the Saboth drue on. The women that folowed after &c. Luke. 23.
‘When Joseph was come to his brethren, they stript him, &c. Gen. 37. ‘So they toke vp Jonas and cast him into the sea and the sea, &c. Jonas.
‘For feare of him the kepers were a­stonied & became as dead men. But the Angell sayd to the women: Feare not, for I know you seeke Jesus which was crucified, &c. Math. 28.
‘Samson arose at mid­night and toke the dores, &c. Judicum. 16. ‘And the Lord spake vn­to the fish and it cast out Jonas, &c. Jonas. 2.
‘Jesus appeared first to Mary Magdalene out of whom he had cast vij. deuils. And she went and told them that had bene with him which mourned, &c. Mar. 16
‘The king said vnto Da­niell: O Daniel the ser­uaunt, &c. Daniel. 6. ‘When I had past a litl [...] from them, then I found him, &c. Cant. 3.
‘Jesus said to Tho­mas put thy finger here and see my hands and put forth thy hand, and put it into my side, and be not faythlesse, &c. John. 20.
‘And Jacob called the name of the place Pe­niell, &c. Gen. 32. ‘Gedeon aunswered: the Lord be with vs why then, &c. Jud. 6.
‘So after the Lord had spoken vnto them, he was recei­ued into heauen and sate at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached, &c. Mar. 16
‘And Enoch walked with God, and he was no more sene, for God tooke him away, &c. Gen. 5. ‘There appeared a charet of fire, and horses of fire, so Elias went vp by a whirl­wind. &c 2. Reg. 2
¶ The Emperour
Emperour or king:
I must thee bring.

¶ The King.
With rulers & kinges:
I end all thinges.

As Emperors and kings, we did raigne:
But now the earth, doth vs detayne.
¶ The Duke.
Duke & Prince
I do conuince.

¶ The Marques.
Marques or state:
I am thy mate.

Lordes and rulers, haue bene:
But what we are, is to be sene.
¶ The Baron.
Baron & lord:
To me must accord.

¶ The Vicount.
High & low:
with me must go.

Tyme to lyue, and tyme to dye:
God graunt vs life, eternally.
¶ The Lord.
Galaunt or gay:
Then must away.

¶ The Knight.
Stout and braue:
I must thee haue.

Behold me here, as in a glasse:
For as thou art, so I was.
¶ The Esquire.
For all thy lust
Thou shalt to dust.

¶ The Gentleman
Graue or sad:
Thou must be had.

As the houres of the day:
So our lyues passe away.
¶ The Capitaine.
In peace and warre:
I make and marre.

¶ The Souldier.
Of foe & frend:
I make an end.

As we were, so are ye:
And as we are, so shall ye be.
¶ The Dromme.
Cease thy dromme:
For all is done.

¶ The Fife.
Cease thy play:
And come away.

Tymes do passe, and tyme it is,
To vse well tyme, least tyme do misse.
¶ The Iudge.
Come on iudge:
With me to trudge.

¶ The Iustice.
Justice I say:
Come on thy way.

From earth to earth, so must it be,
From lyfe to death, as thou doost see
¶ Sergeant at law.
Leaue the lawes:
& heare my cause.

¶ The Attorney.
Plead as thou lust:
With me thou must.

Christ, for thy bitter passion:
Graunt vs a ioyfull resurrection.
¶ The Mayor.
Though Mayor thou be:
Come go with me.

¶ The Shirife.
Sir Shirife stand:
and geue me thy hand.

From earth to earth, so must it be,
From lyfe to death, as thou doost see
¶ The Bailife.
Thou Baily al­so:
With me shalt go.

¶ The Constable.
Constable be prest:
For I thee arest.

Behold me here, as in a glasse:
For as thou art, so I was.
¶ The Phisician.
Let Phisike a­lone:
And go with me home

The Astronomer.
Looke not so hie:
I am thee by.

Tyme to lyue, and tyme to dye:
God graunt vs life, eternally.
¶ The Marchant.
Neither craft nor trade:
Can me perswade.

¶ The Citizen.
Of toune nor citie:
I haue no pitie.

Behold me here, as in a glasse:
For as thou art, so I was.
¶ The Riche man.
Siluer nor golde:
cannot thee holde.

¶ The aged man.
Youth and age
Must be my page.

As the houres of the day:
So our lyues passe away.
¶ The Atrificer.
Leaue thine arte:
And take my parte.

The Husbandman.
Labour no more:
For I haue store.

As we were, so are ye:
And as we are, so shall ye be.
¶ The Beggar.
Begging is done:
For I am come.

¶ The Roge.
Thinke I am best:
For I bring rest.

From earth to earth, so must it be,
From lyfe to death, as thou doost see
¶ The Shepeheard.
Leaue thy shepe
And with me crepe.

¶ The Foole.
Of foolish and fonde:
I breake the bonde.

Christ, for thy bitter passion:
Graunt vs a ioyfull resurrection.
¶ Of Youth.
Young & olde:
Come to my folde.

¶ Of Infancy.
Feare not me:
though I gris­ly be.

Tyme to lyue, and tyme to dye:
God graunt vs life, eternally.
¶ The Emperour.
Emperour or king:
I must thee bring.

¶ The King.
With rulers & kinges:
I ende all thinges.

As Emperors and kings, we did raigne:
But now the earth, doth vs detayne.
¶ The Duke.
Duke & Prince
I do conuince.

¶ The Marques.
Marques or state:
I am thy mate.

Lordes and rulers, we hauē bene:
But what we are, is to be sene.
¶ The baron.
Baron & lord:
To me must accord.

¶ The Vicount.
High & low:
with me must go.

Tymes do passe, and tyme it is.
To vse well tyme, least tyme do misse.
¶ The Lord.
Galaunt or gay:
Thou must away.

¶ The Knight.
Stout and braue:
I must thee haue.

As the houres of the day:
So our lyues passe away.
¶ The Esquire.
For all thy lust
Thou shalt to dust.

¶ The Gentleman
Graue or sad:
Thou must be had.

Behold me here, as in a glasse:
For as thou art, so I was.
¶ The Capitaine.
In peace and warre:
I make and marre.

¶ The Souldior.
Of foe & frend:
I make an end.

From earth to earth, so must it be,
From lyfe to death, as thou doost see
¶ The Dromme.
Cease thy dromme:
For all is done.

¶ The Fife.
Cease thy play:
And come away.

As we were, so are ye:
And as we are, so shall ye be.
¶ The Iudge.
Come on iudge:
With me to trudge.

¶ The Iustice.
Justice I say:
Come on thy way.

As the houres of the day:
So our lyues passe away.
¶ Sergeant at law
Leaue the lawes:
& heare my cause.

¶ The Attorney.
Plead as thou lust:
With me thou must.

Behold me here, as in a glasse:
For as thou art, so I was.
¶ The Mayor.
Thogh Mayor thou be:
Come with me.

¶ The Shirife.
Sir Shirife stand:
and geue me thy hand.

Tyme to lyue, and tyme to dye:
God graunt vs life, eternally.
¶ The Bailife.
Thou Baily al­so:
With me shalt go.

¶ The Constable.
Constable be prest:
For I thee arest.

From earth to earth, so must it be,
From lyfe to death, as thou doost see
¶ The Phisician.
Let Phisike a­lone:
And go with me home.

The Astronomer.
Looke not so hie:
I am thee by.

Tymes do passe, and tyme it is,
To vse well tyme, least tyme do misse.
¶ The Marchant.
Neither craft nor trade:
Can me perswade.

¶ The Citizen.
Of toune nor citie:
I haue no pitie.

Christ, for thy bitter passion:
Graunt vs a ioyfull resurrection.
¶ The Riche man.
Siluer nor golde:
Cannot thee holde.

¶ The aged man.
Youth and age
Must be my page.

Christ, for thy bitter passion:
Graunt vs a ioyfull resurrection.
¶ The Atrificer.
Leaue thine arte:
And take my parte.

The Husbandman.
Labour no more:
For I haue store.

As we were, so are ye:
And as we are, so shall ye be.
¶ The Beggar.
Begging is done:
For I am come.

¶ The Roge.
Thinke I am best:
For I bring rest.

Tymes do passe, and tyme it is,
To vse well tyme, least tyme do misse.
¶ The Shepeheard.
Leaue thy shepe
And with me [...]epe.

¶ The Foole.
Of foolish and fonde:
I breake the bonde.

From earth to earth, so must it be,
From lyfe to death, as thou doost see
¶ Of Youth.
Young & olde:
Come to my folde.

¶ Of Infancy.
Feare not me:
though I gris­ly be.

Tyme to lyue, and tyme to dye:
God graunt vs life, eternally.
¶ The Empresse.
Empresse thogh thou be
Thou must a­way with me.

¶ The Queene.
Queene also thou doost see:
As I am, so shalt thou be.

We that were of highest degree:
Lye dead here now, as ye do see.
¶ The Princes.
Princes of hie estate:
cōtēt you I am your mate

¶ The Duchesse,
Duches & prin­ces:
Death dai­ly conuinces.

We that sate in the highest seate:
Are layd here now for wormes meate,
¶ The Countesse.
Countesse, or what thou art:
I strike thee with my dart.

¶ The Vicountesse.
Vicountes I do not spare:
For of them I haue no care.

Beauty, honour, and riches auayle no whit:
For death when he commeth, spoyleth it.
¶ The Baronnesse.
Baronnesse braue and hie:
Prepare thy selfe to dye.

¶ The Lady.
Ladies gay & faire:
To you I do repaire.

No state, no might, neither yong nor olde:
To resist death, dare be bolde.
¶ The Iudges wife.
Madame or iustice wife:
I am come to ende thy life.

The Lawyers wife.
Beware thy husbands gain
Reward thee not with paine

Death by his might doth conuince:
Expresse, Queene, Duches, and Prince.
The Gentlewoma [...]
Gentles braue & fine:
Daunce after my line.

Aldermans wife.
Thou art clo­thed in skarlet:
And yet art but my varlet.

Behold vs here, that sometyme were gay
How now we lye here, all lapped in clay.
Merchantes wife.
Braue & neuer so nice:
Daunce after my deuice

¶ Citizens wife.
Tricke & trim, put of your hood
I am come to do you good.

Riches nor treasure, auayle nothing:
For death to earth, all doth bring.
Riche mans wi [...].
Though thou haue sil [...] and golde:
Yet art thou within my holde.

¶ Yong woman.
Fine & prety in the wast:
Come with me in hast

From earth we came, and to earth we shall:
For sinne by death, hath made vs thrall.
¶ The Mayde.
Fresh, galant, & gay:
All must with me away.

¶ The Damosell.
Fine, proper & neate:
And all is but wormes meate.

O death, how bitter is thy sting:
That poore and riche to earth doth bring.
¶ Farmers wife.
Cease thy labour and paine:
For I am thy riches and gaine

Husbandmās wife.
Toyle no more I say:
For hēce I must away.

The wise, the simple, and euery degree:
Are by force compelled to obey vnto thee
Countreywoman.
Away with butter & chese.
For thy life thou must now leese.

The Nurse.
Geue sucke no more:
For I am at the dore.

Learne by vs that here do lye:
For to liue well and learne to die.
Shepeheardes wife.
Be thou young or olde:
Thou must enter into my folde

¶ Aged woman.
Be the day ne­uer so long:
At last commeth Euensong.

As death to the iust, bringeth aduantage:
So he to the wicked, doth great dammage
The Creeple,
Be thou poore or disesed:
Thou must with me be pleased.

The poore woman.
Be thou neuer so poore:
Thou must enter at my dore.

As death in this world hath the victory:
So by death we hope to enter Gods glory.
[depiction of the resurrection of the blessed at the last trump]

Come ye blessed of my father inherite the kingdome prepared for you.

Math. 25.
[depiction of the damned consigned to hell at the last judgment]

Depart from me ye cursed into euerlasting fire, which is prepa­red for &c.

Math. 21.

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