The first book of the Chronicles.
¶The i. chapiter.
ADam his ligne is héer exprest,
to
Iacob and
Esau:
Then haue you tolde what kings did rule
the
Edomites by law:
Eight kings they had before the time,
that
Israel had a King:
What Dukes they had ye may haue there
if you inquire the thing.
The ii. Chapiter.
BEgin the second Chapter dooth,
with
Iacob and his sonnes:
And then of
Iudahs progeny
it next in order comes.
Seauen were the sonnes that
Isay had,
whose father was
Obed:
And
Dauid yungest was of them,
yet was he made their hed.
The iii. chapiter.
COncubines diuers
Dauid had,
of sonnes he had ninetéen:
[...]n
Hebron sixe,
Hierusalem
there had he iust thirtéen.
[Page]These by his wiues, to him were born
in whiche was
Salomon:
The Kings that ruled after him,
the chapter telleth on.
The iiii. chapiter.
DRawn out is then the ligne and stock
of
Iudah and his kin:
In wanting food to féed their shéep
good pasture they did win.
Of
Simions sonnes somewhat is said
how valiantly they went:
They béeing few yet sped they wel,
and had their whole intent.
The v. chapiter.
EUil fauoured lust to fathers wife
lost
Ruben his birthright:
And
Iosephs stock came in his roum,
a people ful of might.
Yet is his stock héer tolde, and what
a noble fight they fought:
A land they wan, but after fel,
from God, who draue them out.
The vi. Chapiter.
FOlowing on of
Leuies ligne
expressed is at large:
[Page]Of whom came
Aaron and his sonnes
that had the préestly charge.
Citties they had of other tribes,
for refuge, and besides
For them, and their posterities,
as lots to them were guides.
The vii. Chapiter.
GOing on foorth by
Israel,
to tel who came of him:
Of
Izacar and
Beniamin,
Manasses and
Ephraim.
Then
Ephraims stock by men of
Gath,
were slain whiche made him sad:
His fréends did comfort him right wel,
and then a sonne he had.
The viii. chapiter.
HEar more is tolde of
Beniamin,
his sonnes by right discent
How they begat from childe to childe
and lineally foorth went.
Out of which tribe came foorth king
Saul
and of his sonnes by rowe:
As tolde and eke of valiant men,
that shot wel in a bowe.
The ix. chapiter.
in certain tribes by name:
The
Leuites and the chéefest préestꝭ
that were of greatest fame.
The ouerséears of the woorks,
the porters in their charge:
The oyntment makers & vessel kéepers,
are héer tolde out at large.
The x. chapiter.
KIng
Saule is slain by
Philistins,
and
Ionathas his sonne:
His body stript his hed cut of,
after the féeld was wun.
The cause is tolde why he was slain:
by councelling with the Deuil:
And
Dauid brought into his raign,
who rooted out muche euil.
The xi. chapiter.
LIke as the Lord had promised
by
Samuel his man:
So
Dauid now is chosen King,
Hierusalem he wan.
His noble men are tolde by name
and eke their mightie actꝭ
He that wil read the chapter out,
shall hear of woorthy factꝭ.
The xii. chapiter.
MEn that of might were meruailous,
to
Dauid now did flock:
And suche as knew the featꝭ of warres
came out of euery stock.
Out of eche tribe good souldiers,
their captains with their number,
Are héer so tolde and with suche hartꝭ
as might make
Dauid wunder.
The xiii. chapiter
NOw
Dauid héer dooth councel take
the Ark first home to bring:
Whiche
Saule did nothing care to doo
as long as he was king.
And one was slain for touching it
when as the Ark did shake:
So came it short to
Sion hil,
it made the king to quake.
The xiiii. chapiter.
OF woork men and of Ceder trées,
sent to him héer is tolde:
Wherby his kingdome stablished,
to say he durst be bolde.
His sonnes and wiues are then exprest,
the
Philistines inuade:
[Page]With God he talkte, whose wil obayd,
he flue them in a slade.
The xv. chapiter.
PRepare did he a multitude,
for to fetche home the Ark:
The
Leuites bare it on their backs,
plesantly sang eche clark.
With shouting noise and instruments
and
Dauid daunst his part:
The daintie damsel
Michol then,
despisde him in her hart.
The xvi. chapiter
QUietly now the Ark is set,
the tabernacle vnder:
The préestꝭ appointed to giue thanks,
according to their number.
A Psalme he made in praise of God,
to laud his holy name:
In the hundred and the fift Psalme
there shall ye finde the same.
The xvii. chapiter.
REfuse did God that
Dauid should
an house vnto him build:
But as before so would he stil,
dwel vnder tent in féeld.
[Page]But that a sonne of his should make
a house he was content:
Then landed he the Lord therfore,
sitting within his tent.
The xviii. Chapiter.
SUche battailes then as
Dauid fought
this chapter dooth declare:
The
Philistines, the
Moabites,
they all subdued are.
The
Edomites with other Kings,
did
Dauid ouerthrowe:
And those that were his rulers chéef,
their names héer may ye knowe.
The xix. chapiter.
THen
Dauid sent of right good wil,
a new King for to gréet:
The messengers were madly shauen
their cotes cut ful vnméet.
Suche wrath their maister took therfore
that battail gan to broile:
The
Moabites, the
Aramites,
they fled and had the spoile.
The xx. chapiter.
WHen Princes vse in battaile ray
their armies to set out:
[Page]Then
Ioab went and wan a town
and took a King ful stout.
Whose crown was set on
Dauids head,
whiche waid a waightie waight:
Suche Giants then were ouerthrowne
as lackt no strength nor height.
The xxi. chapiter.
According as the Deuil did tempt,
Dauid did tel his flock:
Of thrée hard stripes the Pestilence,
he chose to be his stroke.
Thrée score and ten thousands of men,
the Angel did deuour:
The plague is ceast▪ an aulter built,
vpon a threshing floure.
The xxii. chapiter.
BEing at rest now in his seat,
all things he dooth prouide:
Wherwith to build to God an house,
at the apointed tide.
Good councel to his sonne he giues,
for to erect the same:
His noble men he dooth exhorte,
to help the woork to frame.
The xxiii. Chapiter.
[Page]CHosen king was
Salomon then
by
Dauid for to reign:
The préesthood eke of
Leuies kinde,
was numbered again.
Then
Aarons stock and
Moyses ligne
are pointed bothe as one:
Their names and eke their offices,
for them to wait vpon.
The xxiiij. chapiter.
DEuision of
Aarons séed,
the king by lot did make:
And so eche man that had his roum,
by lot he did it take.
Yet was there left of
Amrams house,
whose names by course are tolde:
And lots were cast for equalnes,
betwixt the yung and olde.
The xxv. chapiter.
EChe man that should on instrument,
his melody to play:
And Prophecies to sing therto,
were pointed out that day.
Their names are tolde by lotted lot
who set to eche degrée
The songs of God, onely they sung
in laudes of God perdie.
The xxvi. chapiter.
FOr porters men were pointed out
to kéep the south and west:
For other gates besides therto,
and for the north and East.
Where spoiles were laid in battail wun,
and giftꝭ giuen by the powers:
Fit men were chose and pointed out,
therof to kéep the doores.
The xxvii. chapiter.
GIdes & captains the whiche did rule,
eche month their pointed race:
Their names and number héer is tolde
from tribe to tribe in place.
Ouerséears of diuers things,
this chapter dooth you tel:
What names they had, what was their charge
and of the Kings councel.
The xxviij. chapiter.
HOw
Dauid calld the multitude,
and then said vnto them:
God me denide, and plight my sonne
to build
Hierusalem.
He gaue his sonne a goodly charge
and of the woork the plat.
[Page]And left him golde abundantly,
and men of skilful art.
The xxix. chapiter.
IN Golde and eke in siluer bothe
in Iron and in Brasse:
That
Dauid left, and what he gaue,
and eke how muche it was.
With what the princes all did giue
how
Salomon was crownd:
His fathers death and yéeres of reign,
all this may hear be found.
¶The first book of the Chronicles,
is come to his last line:
The chapters are a score by tale,
and therto putting nine.
From Adam vnto Dauids reign,
thus Esdras hath you tolde:
VVho writ these books of Chronicles,
the Iewes of them so holde.
In ample maner is exprest,
how that he kept his charge:
I mean of Dauids princely life,
is heer tolde you at large.
Of Salomons ruling of them
and eke of princes mo:
Now shalbe tolde if God permit,
in order as they go.
The second book of the Chronicles.
The first Chapiter.
AN offring great
Salomō made,
what likte, God bad him craue:
Long life nor welth, ne wrathful wrath
he cared not to haue.
But wisdome askt, God did him graunt
and welth with honour fraught:
The store of Golde and costly things,
were out of
Egipt brought.
The ii. chapiter.
BUild would he now to God an house,
as leaue was to him let:
His woork men tolde, and also how
more to them he did get.
Of letters sent to king of
Tire,
and eke their whole contents:
And how with like he sent again,
wherto the king consents.
The iii. chapiter.
CAuse did now this
Salomon King
the house of God to build:
[Page]On threshing floure that
Dauid bought
whiche stood in
Moriah féeld.
Eche porche & house the length & bredth,
the cherubs with their wings:
The vale of silk and pillers bothe,
this chapter to you mings.
The iiii. chapiter.
DEuisde of brasse an aulter was,
and eke a molten sea:
With Oxen for to bear it vp,
eche quarter thrée to stay.
Candlesticks, cauldrons, tables ten,
with béesoms and fleshe hooks:
And other things as he may sée
who so the Chapters looks.
The v. chapiter.
EChe thing that
Dauid had beque
[...] ▪
to God by dedication:
Is put into the temple then,
after a solemn fashion.
The Ark and that that was therin,
is brought therto also:
The singing men and instruments
ful plesantly did blowe.
The vi. chapiter.
[Page]FAith made the King to God to pray,
when he his flock had blest:
With armes spred out and vowed knées,
thus made he his request.
That when the people did offend,
and for their sinne were strook:
If in that place they praid to him,
that he would on them look.
The vii. chapiter.
GOd likte his prayer then so wel,
that fire so down he sent
And burned vp the sacrifice,
his glory was present.
And graunt he did the Kings request
to him conditionally:
If he and his would walke vpright,
els would he all destroy.
The viii. chapiter.
HOw
Salomon Citties did make
this chapter dooth you tel:
And how he brought his wife to home,
in house where shée should dwel
The offrings that he offred then,
are eke vnto you tolde:
And how he sent his men in ships,
to
Opher fetching golde.
The ix. chapiter.
IN fame his name was spred abrode,
wherby of
Saba Quéen:
Came him to sée, who praisd him muche
when shée his state had séen.
His yéerly rentꝭ how long he rulde
his treasure and his grace:
His riches, and his séeking to
the ending of his race.
The x. chapiter.
KNowing his death his sonne did reign
called
Rehoboam:
Who béeing rulde by counsel euil
muche trouble therby came.
For then the people did rebel,
and chose another hed:
Ten tribes did shrink away from him
whom
Ieroboam led.
The xi. chapiter.
LEese did the King his labour then
his army béeing prest:
And Citties strong with spéed he made
to kéep his land in rest.
Rehoboam of whom we speak
did marry many wiues.
[Page]Then foorth is tolde what they him bare,
and eke how many liues.
The xii. chapiter.
MAde is the kingdome sure & strong,
from God they all declinde
God sent them foes for to inuade,
for breaking of his minde.
A Prophet tolde them of their faults
to God they did conuert:
He turnd his wrath, the King had peace,
and so hée did depart.
The xiii. chapiter.
NOw when his sonne calld
Abiah
succéeded in his place:
Then made he war with
Israel,
telling to them the cace.
He put his trust in God alone,
Ieroboam had the woorst.
He dide a death vnknowne to vs,
as one that was acurst.
The xiiii. chapiter.
OF
Abiahs death this chapter telles,
and eke of
Asas reign:
What peace he had how God he sarud
destroying Idols vain.
[Page]Also what prayers he made to God
when warres to him was sent:
And how the Lord gaue him the spoile
in Cittie and in tent.
The xv. chapiter.
PRophesy did a Prophet then,
to
Asa him to bolde:
Bothe he and his did swear and vow
Gods law to kéep and holde.
The contrary should die the death,
that would not God obay:
He put his mother from her seat,
and burnt her Idoll gay.
The xvi. chapiter.
QUarelling wise the
Israel King,
built
Rama in the way:
And
Asa golde to
Bennadab sent
Baasahs rage to stay.
A Prophet did rebuke the fact,
to prison was he sent:
The King is sick and phisick séeks
more then th'omnipotent.
The xvii. chapiter.
RIght wel
Iehosophat did rule
succéeding
Aass reign:
[Page]With seruing God in perfet hart,
it turned to his gain.
His Lords he sent to teache the flock
whole
Iuda thorowe out:
His Citties mand, his gard was great,
of thousands round about.
The xviii. chapiter.
SO ioynd with
Ahab peace he made,
then with the
Israel king:
Whose Prophetꝭ all did tel a lie,
but
Micha truthe did bring.
In prison he is cast therfore
the Kings to battaile wente
Iehosaphat he scaped hard,
but
Ahabs life was spent.
The xix. chapiter.
THen was the King of
Iuda shent,
for ayding in that féeld:
But then to Gods almightie law
he did make his to yéeld.
As ruler chéef of bothe thestates,
of clergie and of lay:
To vnder heds he gaue a charge,
that there remaines for ay.
The xx. chapiter.
[Page]WHen woord came of a mightie hoste,
whole
Iuda to destroy:
He prayers made a Prophet said,
they should not them anoy▪
The hoste was slain the spoile was great
yet as before he fel:
Therof being tolde the lines doo lead,
and of his end doo tel.
The xxi. chapiter.
AS this King had ended his reign,
Iehoram had his place:
His brethern slain he did mar all
in going
Ahabs race:
O look his end what blood him wan,
a Prophet did him chide:
Troubled w
t warres & sicknes straunge
moste wretchedly he dide.
The xxii. chapiter.
BEeing without a King they tooke,
Ahaziahu by name:
His mothers wil
[...]e so perfourmd,
as did bring to him blame.
Iehu him slue whiche beeing noisd,
Athalia it heard:
The kingly stock shée kild to reign,
but
Ioas scaped hard.
The xxiii. chapiter.
CUnningly is he crowned King
Athalia shée is slain:
Ball is burst his préestꝭ are kild
true seruice plaste again.
The officers set in comely wise,
the hie préest did this déed:
The King is séen and set in seat,
all things did wel procéed.
The xxiiii. chapiter.
DEny did none but eche did giue
the temple to repair
The préestꝭ were slack it would not serue
the King had godly care.
Iehoiada dead he fel from faith,
and
Zachari he slue:
He foild in warres and sick is slain
his seruantꝭ were vntrue.
The xxv. chapiter.
EDom is put now to his flight,
the traytors eke are kild:
The King did trust in multitudes
he turnd as he was wild:
He fel from God, he was rebukte
Amaziahu he hight.
[Page]He mended not, his Cittie spoild,
and kild he was in flight.
The xxvi. chapiter.
FAln a sléep his heire dooth reign
Vsias was his name:
He reigned wel til pride him took,
then lost he all his fame.
To Churche he yed incence to make
a Leaper home he went:
He dwelt alone, his sonne did rule
to buriall so he went.
The xxvij. chapiter.
GOd set in place his sonne
Iotham,
who reigned rightfully:
Saue that to churche he would not go,
his folke liu'de wickedly
The
Ammonites he ouercame,
Golde with wheat they him gaue:
In peace and rest to graue he went,
so writ of him ye haue.
The xxviii. chapiter.
HEire to
Iotham was
Ahaz King,
the false way he did take:
The
Assire and the
Israel head,
they made his kingdome shake.
[Page]Yet captains were returnd again
his realm was throughly vext:
The more he felt the woorse he delt,
a better ruled next.
The xxjx. chapiter.
IN royall state
Hezekia,
obtayned now the crown:
The temple clensd he did erect,
that was before put down.
Oblations, and sacrifice,
and offrings that were great:
So hée and his thus serued God
thus setled he his seat.
The xxx. chapiter.
KNowledge was giuē by letters sent,
the paske for to be kept:
Some laught, some mockt, & some came vp
thus were the people hept.
Together as one a fortnight space,
the paskal Lamb was eaten:
And if the King had not stept in,
some had of God béen beaten.
The xxxi. chapiter.
LOok what became conuerted men
was doon as men reuiude:
[Page]They burst their Gods & found their préestꝭ
who liued of things were tithd:
Such heaps were giuen that they might wait
wholy vpon their charge:
Their wiues and sonnes were cared for,
they had all things at large.
The xxxii. chapiter.
MUltitudes of souldiours came,
then out of
Assur land:
An Angel did destroy the hoste,
God took the thing in hand.
Then
Iuda King his hart was great,
but sicknes did him tame:
More yéeres he had, he liued riche,
and died in great fame.
The xxxiii. chapiter.
NOt wel, but euil,
Manasses reignd,
vntil that he was bound:
Then prayers he made and did repent
and fauour streight he found.
Restored home he made away,
the Idols that were vain:
His sonne rulde il, his men him slue,
and for it were they slain.
The xxxiiii. chapiter.
[Page]OF
Iosias how wel he rulde,
héer now to you is tolde:
He sought for God and trimd his house
his zeale was nothing colde.
The law was found and he it heard,
he rent his cote in sunder:
As he was wild, he serued God
so did likewise a number.
The xxxv. chapiter.
PAsseouer was then held and kept,
Iosias so it bad:
From
Samuels dayes before that time
the like had not béen had.
He néeds would fight with
Egipt King
yet
Necho him forbad:
So slain he was and buriall made,
his flock with mourning clad.
The xxxvi. chapiter.
QUite quenched was the law of God
King after King it foild:
Some were put down, some captiue led
their temple eke was spoild.
They warned, mockt, to
Babilon,
so were they led as shéep:
At seuentie yéeres they did return,
so
Cirus thought it méet.
[Page]
¶Thus ended are the Chronicles.
two books they doo contain:
The Iewes in one compile them bothe,
to long, we make them twain.
VVhen Esdras came from Babilon,
the kingly acts destroyd:
He pend these writs of breef rehearse,
no man hath them anoid.
The first Chapiter:
A Man there was that dwelt in
Hus,
and
Iob they did him call:
Of riches great, who
Sathan spoild,
and re
[...]t it from him all.
His Children eke, God gaue him leaue,
with fire to send them hence:
Yet for all this, he could not breke
Iob of his patience.
The ii. Chapiter.
BIles and foule sores vpon his fleshe
to vexe him woorse and woorse:
The Deuil got leaue to plague him with
the mightie Lord to curse.
His wife also, who should haue béen,
his stay and eke comfort:
Shée counseld him to curse the Lord,
his fréends did him exhort.
The iii. chapiter.
CUrsed now be the day said
Iob,
wherein that I was born:
For nought is héer but wretchednes
our labour is forlorn.
[Page]They are in blisse that graued be,
their sorrowes then are doon:
He wisht the pit his house had béen,
when life he first begoon.
The iiii. chapiter.
DOost thou then said one
Elephas,
waxe faint, whiche héer tofore:
To suche as were in trouble like,
hast béen to them a lore?
The Lord wil doo what pleaseth him,
there is none iust but hée:
The Angels macht, vnto their God
vnpure are found to be.
The v. chapiter.
ELiphas stil procéedeth foorth,
with pacience him to arme:
He prooues the wicked in their welth
haue soon come vnto harme.
And how the iust continually,
from God haue their defence:
He telleth
Iob his happy state,
afore that he go hence.
The vi. chapiter.
FUl sore in sores
Iob dooth reply,
confessing he is weak:
[Page]And wishing death rebuking suche
as to him would not speak.
And eke to suche as taunted him,
he liked not their talke:
He prooueth that in woord and déed
he righteously did walke.
The vii. chapiter▪
GO on our dayes we doo on eart
[...]
as shadowes, or as clouds:
And sudenly we leaue behinde
our emptie framed shrouds▪
Both night and day they haue their to
[...] ▪
with woork and dreames itost:
Wherfore if God did not vs kéep,
so were we surely lost.
The viii. chapiter.
HElp is there none said
Bildad th
[...],
for thée in thy distresse:
But prayers to make in puritie,
and so thy sinnes confesse.
Then shalt thou haue thy good again,
and eke therto increace:
But Hipocrites that trust in déeds,
their glory soon shall ceace.
The ix. chapiter.
[Page]
IOb did consent and dooth affirm,
that God is muche of might:
And eke more iust then what he made,
none like him in his sight.
And that whoso with him dooth plead,
let him of this be sure:
He shalbe forced to confesse,
him self to be vnpure.
The x. chapiter.
KNow fain he would of God the cause
why so he did him strike:
He was his woork and handy craft,
in fourm wel to be likte.
Séeing (said he) I knowe it not,
time giue me to repent:
He dooth describe the face of death,
that makes this life relent.
The xi. chapiter.
LO (said
Sophar) another fréend,
what woords this fellowe makes:
Uniustly he did
Iob accuse,
that he was ful of crakes.
No measure can of God be had,
he knoweth secrets hid:
He willeth
Iob for to repent,
so comfort should procéed.
The xii. chapiter.
MEn riche in worldly welth dispise,
bothe God and godlines:
Thus then (said
Iob) to those that came,
to mock his holines.
The might of God he dooth describe,
to passe all other power:
And that no strength can him restst
if he begin to lower.
The xiii. chapiter.
NOne of you all hath knowledge more
(said he) then that I haue:
Therfore with God now let me talke,
who shall me surely saue.
He prayeth God to pardon him,
and to absent his ire:
So shall he then escape the wrath,
of euerlasting fire.
The xiiii. chapiter.
OF mens short state and misery,
and how their dayes be set:
Whiche none can passe nor cut therof,
his time prolong nor let.
And eke how that this world shall end,
and men shall blisse then haue:
[Page]So hope he prooues shall neuer die
though men go down to graue.
The xv. chapiter.
PUft vp with pride said
Eliphas,
is
Iob right wel I sée:
What knowest thou? what canst thou tel
but eke the same can wée?
Th'vngodly man he runneth foorth
as stiffe as any stéel:
But God rebukes his sinful way,
whiche sharply he dooth féel.
The xvi. chapiter
QUenche yée your woords for shame (ꝙ
Iob)
what cōfort call you this?
My state and cace on euery side,
is far from ioy or blisse.
From witting sin by willing mood,
his hart and hands were clean:
Why he was stroke so gréeuously,
he musde what God did mean.
The xvii. chapiter.
RIght rufully he shewth his cace,
to God that is on hie:
And stil rebukes the scornfulnes,
of those that stood him by.
[Page]But vertuous men he dooth commend,
for they in vertue growe:
He maketh count that he shall die,
and down to dust him bow.
The xviii. Chapiter.
SUche tormentꝭ as the wicked shall
abide for their misdéeds:
Forsooth
Bildah dooth tel to
Iob,
as iust deserued méeds.
Bothe darknes, with, and pit, and snar
[...]
his house and fame shall die:
Suche fée (saith hée) shall sinners haue
and telles the cause and why.
The xix. chapiter.
TEn times said
Iob ye haue me vext,
what mean yée so to doo?
Yée sée me spoild on euery side,
and ad yée this therto?
O fauour me and hear my woords,
and write them vp in lead▪
My sauiour liues whom I shall sée,
when vp shall rise the dead.
The xx. chapiter.
WHen
Iob had doon then
Suphar spake,
and telles the wickeds lot:
[Page]How that his gain shall home again,
whiche he vniustly got.
And hauing store yet raking more,
stil saying he is poore:
He shall not scape the wrath of God
when he on him dooth loure.
The xxi. chapiter.
AH now (said
Iob) hear me a while,
and answer to me giue:
Why doo the wicked prosper so,
and welthy long doo liue?
Yet is their end in wretchednes,
their God they did blaspheme:
At graue the poore shall haue asmuche,
as he that rulde a realme.
The xxii. chapiter.
BE sure of this (said
Eliphas,)
God wil with thée contend:
Thy crueltie to pouertie,
hath brought thée to this end.
Therfore conuert and turn to God
and lay away thy pride:
And make thy boon in humblenes,
and God shalbe thy guide.
The xxiii. chapiter.
[Page]CAn God be hid? no no (said
Iob,)
I knowe his mercy great:
Before, behinde, and on eche side,
gainst him may no man pleat.
His law and eke his woorthy hests,
I haue and wil obay:
He dooth his wil, I doo him fear,
and so shall doo for ay.
The xxiiij. chapiter.
DOutles I can but muse to sée,
the mightie that are riche:
How knowing God, they vexe the poore,
their crueltie is suche.
The poore dooth cry, yet God permits
their tiranny to reign:
The whorishe hed and wicked man
yet surely shalbe slain.
The xxv. chapiter.
ENding his talke
Bildad began,
is their not power (said he)?
With him abooue whose men of war,
can not enumbred be.
Comparde with God, no man is iust,
can womens birth be pure?
When lightꝭ abooue to him are dark,
how then shall man indure?
The xxvi. chapiter.
FUl strength & power hath God aboue
said
Iob he néeds no ayd:
The hel so déep is séen to him,
the earth by him is staid.
The clouds and seas are bound by him,
the heauens by him are propt:
The Whale so huge moste serpent like,
by him his powre is stopt.
The xxvii. chapiter.
GOd be my Iudge I wil not speak,
of things that shalbe vain:
My rightuousnes I wil not leaue
for sin shall haue his pain.
Look what the wicked dooth increace,
the godly shall possesse:
And what he had he shall not haue
thus wrath shall him so dresse.
The xxviij. chapiter.
HOw secret seames out siluer giue,
and golde with Iron hard:
How precious stones and food for folkes,
and men from men be bard.
Héer in the earth these things are hid
but wisedome hath no péer:
Whiche hid from men her for to finde
is onely God to fear.
The xxix. chapiter.
I say to you, O that I were,
as I haue béen tofore:
When power & might was in my hand,
and goods I had in store.
For euery man gaue me the place,
the poor I did defend:
And what I said, or what I did
all men did me commend.
The xxx. chapiter.
KNowe you that now the contrary,
the vilest doo me mock:
They rail, they skorn, they laugh, they (talke)
I am their iesting stock.
The Lord therto is eke my fo,
O God doo me forgiue:
For I did help thaflicted man,
though now thou doost me gréeue.
The xxxi. chapiter.
LEudly yet look I neuer did,
on mayden or on wife:
My houshold folke and strangers bothe
of me had neuer strife.
Hungry and thirstie did I féed,
the naked did I clothe:
If I haue not delt iustly dole,
then let the earth me lothe.
The xxxii. Chapiter.
MUche musing then said
Elihu,
vnto his fellowes thrée:
Haue you no more to
Iob to say,
and you mine elders be?
Til you were dasht I béeing yung,
I had nothing to say:
But fearles now frée spéeche shall pa
[...]e,
lest God take me away.
The xxxiii. chapiter.
NOte wel my woords (to
Iob he said)
why saist thou thou art Iust:
Rebuke not God what so he dooth
for rule hée hath and must.
In bed ful sick he dooth vs lay,
suche message vs to giue:
For to submit and graunt our gilt,
then surely shall wée liue.
The xxxiiii. Chapiter.
O Yée that wise and learned be,
now further sée you mark
God dooth not strike but wée deserue,
no thought to him is dark▪
He hath no eye to great or lowe,
the riche and poor are like:
Yet
Iob dooth think him self so iust
that God should not him strike.
The xxxv. chapiter.
PRocéeding foorth
Elihu said,
be thou O
Iob vniust:
Or be thou iust as thou doost say,
yet this is true to trust.
That God is ne, the more or lesse
made holy or defilde:
But if a man on him doo call,
he shall finde him ful milde.
The xxxvi. Psalme.
QUietly hear me yet a while,
God dooth not strike for nought:
But for to tel and mend our sin,
that we tofore haue wrought
Bue if they skorn then shall they die,
or if the time they track:
So great is God, him to beholde,
our knowledge is to slack.
The xxxvii. Chapiter.
RUling like as a Prince on hie,
our God dooth all things guide
The storme, the haile, the frost, y
e snowe,
of him they haue their tide.
To punishe lands or them to blesse,
O
Iob, this is moste true:
Alone he guides the things he made,
then giue him glory due.
The xxxviii. Chapiter.
SO then the Lord him self did speak
to
Iob: wast thou said he:
When I the heauens & earth did make,
of councel then with me?
Canst thou ought doo in hie or lowe
of wonders that I wrought?
Hast thou in waters or in land,
the treasures of them sought?
The xxxix. chapiter.
THe Gotes, the Hindes, and Unicorn,
their gendring and their force:
The Pecock gay and foolishe stork
or of the barbed horse.
Or of the Hauk that flies by South
or of the Egles might:
By thy deuice haue these their giftꝭ,
to mooue and take their flightꝭ▪
The xl. chapiter.
WHen
Iob had hard what God had said
he humbly did obay:
And said he had said and would be stil,
then foorth the Lord did say.
The power and might of
Leuiathan,
or
Behemoth by name.
[Page]Canst thou him rule with snare or gin,
or make him milde and tame?
The xli. chapiter.
AL men may think his powre is great,
though mine it not excéed:
Yet what ye make him for to hurt
he counts it as a réed
His paths are in the mightie sea,
all men from him doo slide:
The mightie Whale with diuel possest
he is the King of pride.
The xlii. chapiter.
BEfore the Lord
Iob did repent
confessing how that he:
The wonderous woorks or mightie power
of God he could not sée.
His fréends were wild to offer giftꝭ
that
Iob might for them pray:
And God gaue him of all things more
then he had ere that day.
¶Thus Iob hath doon his patience,
ye haue heard all his broile:
How Sathan wrought to turn his faith
how freends did him turmoile.
[Page]Now sporting songs for liuely wits,
suche as the Lord doo fear:
From Dauids harp the sommary.
to you shall wel appear.
The first Psalme.
A Happy hap the man shall haue,
whiche not with sinners walks:
Ne he that in the wicked chair
of God in scorne italks.
His frute shalbe moste plenteously,
rewarded eke with blisse:
When sinners shall decay and fall,
of heauenly ioyes to misse.
The ii. Psalme.
BEware (saith he) how that ye rage,
ye rulers all in vain:
For God wil haue his sonne to rule,
in might and poure to reign.
Therfore se that ye couet lore,
and serue the Lord in fear:
Kisse him in time lest yée doo smart,
when he shall once appéer.
The iii. Psalme.
[Page]CAst out of Kingdome,
Dauid cryes,
to God for ayd and strength:
He hath reléef, he dooth confesse,
God did him hear at length.
And surely he hath confidence,
that God wil succour send:
That he wil strike his enemies,
and eke his flock defend.
The iiii. Psalme.
DOut cast away, he trusted God,
though
Saule did him molest
He checketh all the taunting men,
that did his reign detest.
And prooueth that the care of God,
continually dooth féed:
Those that he loues so that they may,
take rest and sléep at néed.
The v. Psalme.
EFtsoones in his aduersitie,
betime to God he prayes:
Affirming God to be ful iust,
detesting sinners wayes.
Beséeching God to be his guide,
describing sinners race:
Affirming that God wil protect,
the iust in euery place.
The vi. Psalme.
FUl fraught in féeling God his ire
and death to shew his dart:
He humbly prayes God to forgiue,
and shewes his mourning hart
Away (saith he) yée wicked men
reéelf now haue I found:
My wishers euil shall haue this hap,
the Lord shall them confound.
The vii Psalme.
GIltles now
Dauid did complain,
false tales to
Saule were tolde:
He cléeres him self and prayeth God,
his cace for to beholde.
Affirming that the glory of God,
by that should eke beséen:
And how the euil in their deuice,
shall wast and perishe cleen.
The viii. Psalme.
HOw wunderful in all his woorks,
is God aboue (saith hée?)
Whiche maketh babes to tel his fame
and eke the starry skie.
But yet of man he museth more,
why God should him regard:
[Page]To knowe the thing he dooth confes,
for him it is to hard.
The ix. Psalme.
I Wil giue praise to God (saith he)
for victories by past:
Who had his foes and their defence,
bothe kild and ouer cast.
And now that foes doo flowe a freshe,
for wonted ayd he calles:
The wicked men they were destroyed
he meanes that were King
Sauls.
The x. Psalme.
KNowe héer yée may the trade & way,
that wicked men do vse:
Describing eke their suttleties,
the poor for to abuse.
He calleth God for to aduenge,
the poor sustayning wrong:
Beséeching him to breke the arme,
of the vngodly throng.
The xi. Psalme.
LO though (said he) the wicked bend,
their bowe at me to shoot:
And though to hilles they bid me
[...]lée,
and haue me in pursuite.
[Page]Yet shall the Lord poure down his wrath
vpon the wicked rout:
And righteous men shall haue his loue
of this their is no dout.
The xii. Psalme.
MEn béeing falne from equitie,
Gods help hée dooth desire:
And that he would cut out the tungs,
of eche flattering lier.
For néedies sake the Lord wil rise,
and set the bond ful frée:
Gods woords are pure when wicked reign
it is a shame to sée.
The xiii. Psalme.
NOw vexed sore with sundry sa
[...]ts,
prest ready to dispair:
His anker olde he flées vnto,
to God he makes his prayer.
And lest his foes incouragde should
be: for to sée his fall:
He hauing ayd dooth hight him lauds
that reigneth ouer all.
The xiiii. Psalme.
OF foolishe men that inwardly,
doo say there is no God:
[Page]Describe he dooth their propertie,
and eke their fatall rod.
For mocking of the poores deuice,
he dooth also request:
The thraldome of the Israelites,
that it might turn to rest.
The xv. Psalme.
PEculiarly now dooth he tel,
why God did take and chuse:
Of his good wil into his house,
the people of the Iewes.
Forsooth because that they should shew,
to suche as were without:
By godly life that they were Gods
to bring them out of dout.
The xvj. Psalme.
QUestionles not for his woorks
but for his faith alone:
He prayeth God him to preserue,
els succour hath he none.
Idolatrie hée dooth detest,
true worship dooth he like:
Affirming that his soule shall not
be left in grauy dike.
The xvii. Psalme.
[Page]REhearse hée dooth the crueltie,
of
Saule and eke his men:
The raging pride and tiranny,
they shewd vnto him then.
Without deser
[...]ꝭ, therfore he prayes,
reuenge of God to haue:
His giltles life to
Saule was suche,
that makes him so to craue.
The xviii. Psalme.
SIth God (saith he) hath stablisht me,
and set me in my throne:
For mercies great & sauegard bothe
to him be praies alone.
The kingdome of our Lord and Christe,
the whiche shall haue none end:
He saith, shall stand spite of the foes,
so God shall him defend.
The xjx. Psalme.
TO the intent the mighty power,
of God might wel be waid:
The heauens and might of lightꝭ aboue,
by them he is displaid.
Besides all this his sacred woord,
and law that is so pure:
He dooth set out as perfet guide,
to walke therby ful sure.
The xx. Psalme.
WHen that the King in warlike wise,
should go to
Ammons hoste:
The people pray God to defend,
their King and eke their coste▪
[...]nd that the giftꝭ and sacrifice,
whiche offer vp he did:
That God would them accept and like,
before that foorth he yed.
The xxi. Psalme.
AS soon as
Dauid home returnd,
from victory in féeld:
[...]n voice of all he thanked God,
whiche made his foes to yéeld.
[...]ffirming that the Lord alone,
had giuen his foes the foile
And that he would stil on so doo,
though they ne so turmoile.
The xxii. Psalme.
BRought now into extremities
and hope allmost decaid:
Yet hauing faith and found reléef,
again him self he stayd.
And by him self he dooth describe,
what should in time to come:
[Page]When Christe should be vpon the earth,
gainst him what should be doon?
The xxiii. Psalme.
CAused by sundry succours past,
the Lord he takes for guide:
And hauing him for his defence,
he cares not what betide.
And séeing rest before his foes,
the Lord did to him giue:
He dooth not dout before he goes,
ful long and safe to liue.
The xxiiii. Psalme.
DOutles th
[...]n God dooth gouern all,
yet chéefly he dooth chuse:
Suche as doo liue in godly life,
and wickednes refuse.
The Gentile and the Iew are like
if they obay his lore:
Their gates and doores of hartꝭ & mind
[...],
must subiect him before.
The xxv. Psalme.
EFtsoones as often eke before,
with foes a freshe opprest:
He counts his sinnes to be the cause,
and makes to God request.
[Page]His youthful sinnes for to remit,
and to regard his cace:
With mercy and with fauour bothe,
to him to turn his face.
The xxvi. Psalme.
FUl many were his enemies,
and iniuries assaid:
That
Saule vniustly to him shewd,
he praith to God for ayd.
Affirming that although he were
from house of God exilde:
If he returnd with slaughters great,
his aulters should be pilde.
The xxvii. Psalme.
GOd is my light and sauegard bothe
said hée: and my defence:
Bereft from foes this I require▪
it is my whole pretence.
His temple to beholde and
[...]ée,
to dwel therin for ay:
His face to vew his wayes to learn,
so faith hath béen my stay.
The xxviii. Psalme.
HEuines now his hart besets,
to sée the wicked rout:
[Page]Desiring to be rid of them,
and wrath to root them out.
He prayseth God who is his strength
and heard when he dooth call:
His hart therfore was ful of ioy,
and prayeth defence fro all.
The xxix. Psalme.
IN power suche as doo rule and reign,
(if God) to be they wunder:
Then he them willes to learn his might
by tempest and by thunder.
And though by them he sinners feares,
and makes them all to quake:
Yet wil he saue his chosen flock,
euen for his mercies sake.
The xxx. Psalme.
KNowe did he wel deliuerance,
from God aboue to come:
He renders laudes eke for the same
he shewes him self not dum.
The suden fall from liking state,
and eke for mercies stil:
Hée dooth declare and prayeth God,
his praise set out he wil.
The xxxi. Psalme.
[Page]LAudes and praise yet once again,
for fréedome from his thrall
By faith in hope he giues to God,
affirming this withall.
That God with fauour dooth beholde,
those that him loue and fear:
Preseruing them continually,
as samples doo appéer.
The xxxii. Psalme.
MAruaylous sick he dooth confesse,
his sin to be the cause:
And blest to whom God not imputes
the breaking of his lawes.
And after thus his faultꝭ confest,
the wicked he exhorts:
To mend their life and holy men,
with ioyes he muche comfortꝭ.
The xxxiii. Psalme.
NOw righteous men reioice saith he,
in him that vs did make:
And gouerns all and is ful true,
his graunt shall neuer slake.
He sercheth hartꝭ and knoweth thoughtꝭ
no secrets from him hid:
No help can saue but his right hand
trust this, he dooth you bid.
The xxxiiii. Psalme.
OF fear and dread he béeing rid,
whom
Achis counted mad:
He thanketh God who was the cause
that good successe he had.
And so prouokes that godly men,
should stil in God put trust:
Affirming wicked slaughters great,
and sauegard for the iust.
The xxxv. Psalme.
PLead thou my cause o God (saith he,)
gainst
Saule and eke his court▪
Their traps they set, me for to catche,
let them turn to their hurt.
And saue thou me and also those,
that gilt
[...]es take my part:
And I shall praise thy holy name,
so long as liues my hart.
The xxxvi. Psalme.
QUite gon from fear of God are those
that followe wicked trace:
The gouernnaunce of God in earth,
dooth ioy his woful cace.
And so muche more he holdes that God
his chosen shall preserue:
[Page]Who finally shall them defend,
and punishe those that swarue.
The xxxvii. Psalme.
REck not (saith he) nor doo you fret
that wicked men doo thriue:
Nor that thou séest the iust correct,
for thou shalt sée beliue.
How that the euil, of cut shalbe,
and thou, if thou abide:
Ful patiently shalt haue thy wishe,
when that thy cause is tride.
The xxxviii. Psalme.
SIcknes eftsoones dooth cause him say,
his sinnes the same to bring:
The ire of God, and fréend now fled,
with foes on him laughing.
Is cause that he intreateth God,
to make him whole again:
And firmly stands to trust to that,
and so dooth stil remain.
The xxxix. Psalme.
TEmpted then with extremities
and gréefs that were infirme:
Eke fully bent this patience,
with silence to confirme.
[Page]Yet burst he out with doleful woords,
and dumnes quite he left:
Beséeching him of spéedy help,
that he be not bereft.
The xl. Psalme.
WHen perils past were passed by,
he rendreth thanks to God:
And telleth plain he wil set out,
suche things as he hath bod.
Stil crauing mercy at his hand,
and foile on foes to fall:
With wishing those that doo him fear
his prays to render all.
The xli. Psalme.
AFflicted sore yet dooth he blesse,
those that his cace lament:
Complayning muche of fayned fréends
that traytourously were bent.
But féeling God to be his ayd,
his haters rage to stay:
He rendreth thanks and dooth protest,
he wil doo so for ay.
The xlii. Psalme.
BE
[...]ing exilde from Christes flock,
to praise his holy name:
[Page]Yet dooth he ful protest a while,
from hart to doo the same.
Affirming though aduersities,
had ne so him opprest:
Yet should his soule haue confidenc
[...]
in him to take her rest.
The xliii. Psalme.
CAusles his foes did vexe him sore
therfore to God he prayes:
Iudge thou my cause and be my light,
thus vnto God he sayes.
So by that meanes vnto thy hil,
and tabernacle bothe:
Upon my harp I wil thée thank,
my soule shall not it lothe.
The xliiii. Psalme.
DUe thanks his people héer doo giue,
for mercies manifolde:
And féeling now the contrary,
Gods couenant they beholde.
Affirming that to be the cause,
why enemies them vexe:
Yet doo they vow his lawes to holde
for all their wicked checks.
The xlv. Psalme.
[Page]EXtolled is the maiestie,
of
Salomon the King:
The
Egipt wife that he did wed,
hath eke her extolling.
Wherby is shewd how the Gentiles
to Christe shall spoused be:
His mercies large shall foorth so stretche,
that none refuse wil he.
The xlvi. Psalme.
FOr help receiu'd béeing besiegd,
of King
Sennacherib:
The land, the Lord affirming so,
it shalbe stablished.
In putting trust in God alwayes,
who hath his whole delight:
To saue his Churche when succour all,
dooth séem to be gone quite.
The xlvii. Psalme.
GGd that is of moste mightie power,
he willeth for to laud:
Whose kingly rule dooth make his foes,
that they by him be awd.
Who dooth also to
Iacobs séed,
extend his lasting looue:
He telles before the Gentiles call,
by Christe that is abooue.
The xlviii. Psalme.
HOw notably
Hierusalem,
from sundry foes had ayd:
How that from God their force was such
they could not be dismaid.
For whiche, to God they render thanks
as guide vnto their dittie:
And so describe the comely state,
of their moste noble Cittie.
The xlix. Psalme.
INcline your eares (saith he) & hark,
iudge not that suche as welth
Haue in their hands, that they be blest
for sure it is but pelf.
And they shall passe and perishe all,
that haue therin their trust:
But God shall féed and saue in déed,
suche as in him are iust.
The l. Psalme.
KNowing ful wel how that the church
of Ipocrites had store:
Who put their trust in outward showes
more then in inward lore.
Whiche hée dooth check and telleth plain
that God dooth more delight:
[Page]In inward thanks and due requestꝭ
then sacrifices bright.
The li. Psalme.
LO pardon now, he pleadeth for,
the King (I mean) when hée:
By
Nathans mouth did knowe his fault,
haue mercy Lord on me.
He saith, and blot out all mi gilt,
and put away my sinne:
And doo not strike my people for,
the fault that I fel in.
The lii. Psalme.
MUche musing why that wicked man,
that
Doeg had to name:
Should boste him self so in his pride,
he saith God shall him tame.
And then he willes that faithful men,
should not suche tirants fear:
But stand in trust of Gods defence,
who shall their quarels bear.
The liii. Psalme.
NO God at all the fool dooth say,
there is to sée my fact:
God looking down espied none,
that did regard his act.
[Page]Wherfore with fear they shalbe flight,
where fear there is no néed:
But sauing state with ioyfelnes,
his flock shall haue in déed.
The liiii. Psalme.
O God (hée saith) doo thou me saue
with enemies opprest:
And by thy power iudge thou my cause,
gainst suche as me detest.
Then wil I praise thy holy name,
and sacrifice ordain:
When of my foes my ful request,
of thée I doo obtain.
The lv. Psalme.
PErsecuted so stil by
Saule,
for succour he dooth pray:
Muche gréeued with a flattring sort,
that sought him to betray.
Moste ardently beseeching God,
his pittie for to shew:
And carefulnes he willeth men,
vpon the Lord to throwe.
The lvi. Psalme.
QUestionles he séeth no way,
his foes for to withstand:
[Page]But forst he was to walke astray,
to voyd his enmies hand.
Wherfore he praith moste humblely
to him that prayer alowes:
To way his cause and him defend
so wil he pay his vowes:
The lvii. Psalme.
REstles again to God he calles
for mercy at his néed:
Also when
Saule he might haue slain,
he dooth not so in déed.
But prayeth God abooue the heauens,
his glory to set out:
And he in hart wil praise the Lord
with musick there about.
The lviii. Psalme.
SAule now is héer described out,
his flatterers also:
Who sought alwayes by day and night,
to turn him vnto wo.
Shewing how that he dooth appeal,
to God to hear the right:
Affirming that his wrath on them,
shall cause men praise his might.
The lix. Psalme.
[Page]TO God again for help he cryes,
in bed he was beset:
He telles their tales and gileful ginnes,
deuisde him for to get.
Protesting that God wil them kil
though sparde they be a while:
And then ful bent to laud the Lord,
his song he wil compile.
The lx. Psalme.
WHen
Dauid was in Kingly seat,
eset and crowned King:
Then he protest vnto his flock,
that it was Gods working.
Saying if they alow the same,
God shall stil them defend:
And valiant actꝭ again their foes,
he shall vnto them send.
The lxi. Psalme.
ABsalon now and
Ammonits,
doo freshe reuiue his care:
With doleful cry he prayeth God
his help for to declare.
And béeing stayd in quiet throne,
as oft before he sayes:
That he wil pay his vowed vow,
and sing vnto his praise.
The lxii. Psalme.
BEset with sore temptations,
his faith to prooue and try:
He vseth meditations,
to him that is on hie.
Affirming eke the vanitie,
of worldlings in their wele:
And willeth vs to liue in God,
who shall our déeds reuele.
The lxiii. Psalme.
COmfort he did receiue of God,
in
Ziph that wildernes:
Where
Saule had him beset so sore,
that great was his distresse.
And so reléeud, he thanketh muche,
the Lord omnipotent:
And telles before the death of
Saule,
as afterward it went.
The lxiiii. Psalme.
DAuid dooth pray that suche as doo,
of him make false reporte:
That God would strike them sudenly,
euen after the same sorte.
That they had thought him for to haue
with arrowes sharp and fearce:
[Page]So shall all those that it beholde,
his mightie woork reherce.
The lxv. Psalme.
EXtolled praise dooth
Sion giue,
for graces manifolde:
His people by the same is ment,
whiche are within his folde.
How specially he did them chuse,
and gouern them by might:
And blest their land with plentiousnes
and ceasnably it dight.
The lxvi. Psalme.
FOr prayses now to men he calles,
that they should giue to God:
And shewth his power to make the euil,
to fear his ireful rod.
And how that God from time to time,
his people had protect:
And saued him who promise makes
his aulters to be dect.
The lxvii. Psalme.
GOd merciful to be to them,
this Psalme dooth him beséeche:
His countenance and iudgement bothe,
with prayses in their spéeche.
[Page]And how they swarm vpon the earth,
that then of laudes were doon:
Should praise his name vnder his blisse,
when Christe to reign should come.
The lxviii. Psalme.
HOw mightely from time to time,
God had his people saued:
By many wayes and sundry meanes
from them that gainst them raued.
Wherby by reason of his grace,
and helps, wherof no nomber:
That on his Churche he dooth bestowe,
he telles for mickle wonder.
The lxix. Psalme.
IN great distresse with feruent zeal,
to God for help he calles:
The cruel wrath of wicked men,
and what on them be falles.
As
Iudas and the like to him,
that should his Lord betray:
And how the séed of Christes Churche,
should bide and liue for ay.
The lxx. Psalme.
KNowe wel he did that God alone,
in daunger must him ayd:
[Page]Wherfore he prayes his spéedy help,
as he before had praid.
And that his foes might back
[...]e turnd,
and so receiue their shame:
But ioyfulnes to light on his,
to praise his holy name.
The lxxi. Psalme.
LIke as before in faith he makes,
his prayer in promise fixt:
Whiche from his youth to hoary age,
in all his life was mixt.
His foes their fall he dooth beséeche,
and graces to him bent:
Stil to remain and so wil he,
praise him on instrument.
The lxxii. Psalme.
MAke prayer he dooth that
Salomon
his sonne may wisely raign:
In prosperous state as figure erst,
of Christe irose again.
That peace and plentie he should bring
and Kings knéel him before:
And all the lands vpon the earth,
should laud him euermore.
The lxxiii. Psalme.
[Page]NEyther the wicked welthy state
of suche as be reiect:
Nor yet the broyle of suche as be
his chosen and elect.
Should cause the godly to dispair,
but Gods forsight to loue:
He shewes the end of good and bad,
his liking is aboue.
The lxxiiij. Psalme.
OPrest they were with raging force
religion true defaste:
The temple and the seruice bothe
tofore that was in braste.
Wherfore to God for ayd they cry,
his couenant to beholde:
And for his name his flock to saue
his foes eke so controlde.
The lxxv. Psalme.
PErpetuall prayse the faithful giue,
to God their Iudge and King:
Who righteously the world shall Iudge,
at time of his comming.
Of setting vp or putting down,
all power is in his hand:
His foes as dregs shall drink his wrath,
vpright the iust shall stand.
The lxxvi. Psalme.
QUite quailed was the
Assirians po
[...]re
Gods name therby was knowne
Sennacheribs hoste Gods Angel slue,
his brags were ouerthrowne.
At his rebuke and Iudgement fierce
the rayling rout was stayd:
Suche vowes therfore as they had plight
he willes they should be paid.
The lxxvii. Psalme.
REfuge in fear of
Saule his foe,
he knew none but his God:
Therfore with voice to him he flies
though vnderneath his rod.
In halfe dispair and woful gréef,
yet vewing Gods great might:
He chéereth vp him self again,
by meruails wrought in sight.
The lxxviii. Psalme.
SUche succour as the Lord had sent,
the
Israelites to fore:
He telles and yet how they rebeld,
and lou'de him nere the more.
And yet how God forbare his hand,
to sée if they would mend:
[Page]When nought preuaild saue
Iudah sole,
he chose none to defend.
The lxxix. Psalme.
TOrmoild the Iewes with Gentiles were
to God they call for ayd:
To kil their foes to saue their liues
so vnto him they prayed.
For whiche his help to celebrate,
his laudes they doo protest:
From time to time they and their
[...]ock,
should there vnto be prest.
The lxxx. Psalme.
UNcessantly to God they flée,
as pastour of his shéep:
From foes to saue they him besought,
whiche had them made to wéep.
From
Egipt land his vine he brought,
the bore did it anoy:
They him beséeche with power from hie
the beast for to destroy.
The lxxxi. Psalme.
A Law was made for musick men,
when sacrifice was made:
That they should play, he them so willes
to kéep them in their trade.
[Page]And God he brings to speak to them,
and what for them he did:
What eke he willes that they should doo,
but stil amis they yéed.
The lxxxii. Psalme.
BEholde of this amid the rout,
of Iudges God dooth sit:
To cause them fear, no wrong to doo,
lest they doo smart for it.
And though their names be nere so great,
if Iustice they doo misse:
As men ful mean they perishe shall,
let them be sure of this.
The lxxxiii. Psalme.
COmplain they did of neighbour fo
[...]
beséeching God of ayd:
The wickeds talke they doo expresse,
what they of them haue said.
Beséeching God them to destroy,
like others them before:
[...]o forcing foes to knowe his might
and fear it euermore.
The lxxxiiii. Psalme.
DAuid was driuen by
Absalon,
from
Sion and his seat:
[Page]Dooth shew his zeale vnto Gods house,
and so he dooth intreat.
Affirming rather in the Churche
a door kéeper to be:
Then in the tentꝭ of wicked men,
to haue a hie degrée.
The lxxxv. Psalme.
EXilde they were as captiue men,
but now returnd from thrall
The peoples sinnes they are remit,
God hath forgiuen them all.
So thanks he giues an prophesieth,
their helth, their ioy and faith:
Their goodnes, iustice, and their peace
all this to fore he saith.
The lxxxvi. Psalme.
FOr hapful hearing of the Lord,
the Prophet now dooth pray▪
For help, for ayd, for ioyful signe,
he prayes not to denay.
Against all suche as sought his wo,
this prayer did he make:
That God is far aboue all Gods,
he dare wel vndertake.
The lxxxvii. Psalme.
[Page]GLory ful great and founded sure,
to
Sion dooth he giue:
The Churche of Christ in constant faith
whiche héer on earth dooth liue.
No churche there is of might so great,
not
Babilon in déed:
The mighty monarks of the earth,
shée far dooth them excéed.
The lxxxviii. Psalme.
HUmblenes in affliction,
this Psalme dooth tend therto:
In sicknes time and great distresse,
so
Dauid vide to doo.
With doleful chéer and woful care,
all comfortles he cries:
As dead in graue and darknes déep
no help that he espies.
The lxxxix. Psalme.
IN endles wise sing praise he wil,
to God that is abooue:
For his great goodnes and his faith
shewd to him in his looue.
In kéeping promise to his tribe,
of whom the Lord was borne:
Whose Kingdome eke and stablenes
he telles of, long befo
[...]n.
The xC. Psalme.
KNowe héer ye may th'eternitie,
of God all worlds before:
And of mans life the breuitie,
for watching wholesome lore.
Of miseries and shorted life,
our sinnes are cause of all:
For ioyes he prayth in time to come▪
that they may be equall.
The xCi. Psalme.
LO, lo (saith hée) who so dooth dwel
vnder the Lords defence:
What so betide he néed not care,
from where or eke from whence.
His faith and hope that pends on God,
so firme is set and sure:
That nothing can him hurt or noy,
but safe he shall endure.
The xCii. Psalme.
MUche good it is to celebrate,
he saith to God on hie:
His goodnes and his faithfulnes,
with song and melody.
His woorks or goodnes, wicked men,
doo nothing knowe at all:
[Page]But godly men in knowledge growe
and so for ay they shall.
The xCiii. Psalme.
NOne dooth reign but God alone,
who made the things are made:
By whiche his glory and his might
are séen as in a shade.
His law also vnto a flock,
he gaue to learn him more:
And midst of them he gaue him self
to fortify his lore.
The xCiiii. Psalme.
OPprest wel néer with mightie foes,
for vengeance he dooth craue:
Beséeching, sherching, finding fault,
as though his fleshe did raue.
But finding help he giues the laud,
to God his sole defence:
And ful his hope he sets in him,
who shall him recompence.
The xCv. Psalme.
PEople slack he calleth foorth,
with double call he calles:
To laud the Lord he made these▪
the
[...]arth and hilles as walles.
[Page]He is our God and pastour eke,
his voice if we neglect:
His rest we shall not sée no more,
then those that were reiect.
The lxxxxvi. Psalme.
QUite ouer all to all he cryes,
to sing and laud the Lord:
Who passeth all the Gods on earth
none can with him accord.
He telles before of Christe his reign
how large that it shall stretche:
He comes, he comes, so tel it foorth,
to Gentiles shall he fetche.
The lxxxxvii. Psalme.
REign dooth the Lord, therfore the earth
let it reioyce & Iles
And dasht be Gentiles and their Gods
that woorship then their whiles.
But as for
Sion let it ioy,
and doo the thing is good:
For light vpsprings let iust reioyce,
with laudes of chéerful mood.
The lxxxxviii. Psalme.
SIng now saith he, a song anew,
vnto the Lord abooue:
[Page]Who maruelously hath shewd him self,
to suche as doo him looue.
Therfore he willes that all the earth
should praise and laud him stil:
For he shall come with Iustice right
to Iudge after his wil.
The lxxxxix. Psalme.
TRiumphantly the Lord dooth reign,
the people fret and fume:
Let earth be moou'd and moou'd again,
with fretting to presume.
Yet shall the Lord rule ouer all,
and hear the iusts request:
Therfore set out his holy name,
towards hie where he dooth rest
The C. Psalme.
UNto the laud and praise of God
he stirreth all that come:
Suche as into his court approche,
he would not haue them dum.
The causes why that mooues therto
he saith to be that hée:
Did fourm our shape, we did not so
his goodnes makes the gl
[...]e.
The Ci. Psalme.
[Page]A That Princes and Prelates eke
would learn this Psalme by rote:
For publike weal and churchely rule,
here is a godly note.
That none in Court or Kirk should be
that gaue them selues to euil:
And those should be prefard alone,
as made of sinne a driuel.
The Cii. Psalme.
BEholding great calamities,
with double spéeche he cryes:
To hear his sute, to way his cause
to him aboue the skies.
That he would consolation send,
to him was graunt his sute:
Posterities may knowe therof,
by publike fame and brute.
The C.iii. Psalme.
CElebrate to God abooue,
and eke his name extol:
He counselleth his inward powers,
by meaning of his soule.
For kindenes shewd to him and his
so forst he was to doo:
Bothe Angels might and ministers,
he willeth eke therto.
The C.iiii. Psalme.
DEdicate his soule to blesse,
again the Lord he willes:
Who lightsome glory putting on,
rules far abooue the hilles.
That God made all in partꝭ he telles
and eke his flock dooth cherishe:
By guyding some and féeding some
or els they all should perishe.
The C.v. Psalme.
EUery one for to confesse,
the Lord and him to pray:
He willeth so and that they should
set out his lauds alway.
For wunders that he wrought tofore,
ful many yéeres ere than:
He bréefly telles to mean therto,
beginning at
Abram.
The C.vj. Psalme.
FUl often as before so béere,
be willes for to confesse:
The goodnes of the Lord so great
to folke that were thankles.
Who were vnfaithful murmurers,
transgressours and rebels.
[Page]Deseruing muche but yet the Lord,
his pact he not refels.
The Cvii. Psalme
GO on he dooth as twice before,
to set out God as good:
Not onely to the
Israelites ▪
as in a partiall mood.
But also vnto all the world,
bothe comforter and scourge:
For whiche he wil to God the laudes
among them all to forge.
The Cviii. Psalme.
HAue héer you shall the fiftie seuen,
and sixtie Psalme in one:
As laudes and praise to God abooue
that vanquished their sone.
With wishing that the glory of God
might rule in euery coste:
Of
Israels far stretching out,
so telles the holy Ghoste.
The C.ix. Psalme.
IN vehement sprite he praith to God,
to aduenge him on his foes:
As
Doeg in the court and suche,
that wrought him many woes.
[Page]By flattering talke in foule wise,
to please the eares of
Saule:
They tolde to him a thousand lies
so heaping
Dauids thrall.
The C.x. Psalme.
KIng
Dauid héer of Christe dooth tel,
as Christe him self dooth say:
His royall kingdome he sets out,
to dure bothe now and ay.
His préesthood eke not
Aaron like,
but as
Melchizadeck:
Triumphantly his rule shalbe,
all subiect to his beck.
The C.xj. Psalme.
LOok what the Lord had promised
to
Israel long ago:
From ca
[...]tiuenes to set them frée
he saith that he did so.
And gaue to them the Gentiles land
and eke his holy law:
Thus he them telles to stir them vp,
to haue the same in awe.
The C.xii. Psalme.
MUche good he saith shall light to him,
that hath the Lord in fear:
[Page]And dooth delight to kéep his wil,
blest shall that man appéer.
To poor and weak he giueth ayd,
remoou'de he shall not bée:
Although the wicked chafe therat,
when they the same shall sée.
The C.xiii. Psalme.
NOught els he willes but laud & praise
to God aboue to giue:
Whiche looketh down from hie aboue,
on things that héer doo liue.
And dooth from dust set vp the poore,
with princes for to sit:
And makes the barren frute to haue
and to reioyce in it.
The C.xiiii. Psalme.
OF Gods behauiour towards his flock
when
Egipt they went out:
How mountains, hilles, and waters low
from order turnd about
All fearing muche the face of God
he saith this came to passe:
And stony rock to water flud,
by him so turned was.
The C.xv. Psalme.
[Page]PUtting all glory quite away,
from Idolles fayned Gods:
Twire whom and God that is th
[...] Lord,
he prooueth great the ods.
Not vnto vs, not vnto vs,
but God haue all the praise:
Who owes the heauē, & guides the earth
his name be blest alwayes.
The C.xvi. Psalme.
QUēche they could not but he
[...] would
looue God that heard his cry
[...]
When
Absalon did vexe him sore,
and caused him to flie.
Yet hopes he wel for to return,
Hierusalem to pay:
The vowes that he to God did vow,
when he was driuen away.
The C.xvii. Psalme.
RIght as before so héer again,
he willeth nations all:
To laud the Lord that as he reignd,
so euermore he shall.
Confirming his benignitie,
and faith by Christe his sonne:
From time to time withouten end,
as he it once begun.
The C.xviii. Psalme.
SO God alone he dooth confesse,
because that he is good:
The
Israelites he willes therto,
as he that sau'de their blood.
From
Philistines and other foes,
that did against them bark:
And gaue them rest to laud the Lord,
and to set vp his Ark.
The C▪xix. Psalme.
THough it be long yet in a some,
this Psalme dooth say thus muche:
That study of the law of God,
there is no study suche.
Sometimes he speaks eke of his foes,
and some also he threatꝭ:
These thrée are chéef in matters all,
that in this songs he treatꝭ.
The C.xx. Psalme.
UNto suche tungs as vse to lie,
and eke for to backbight:
He could not wishe suche sharp reward,
as due to them was right.
For peaceles men and flatterers,
suche as with
Saule did court:
[Page]Kept him exilde and yet therto,
they wrought him mickle hurt.
The C.xxi. Psalme.
AT God alone all ayd is had,
on him must we depend:
For he that made the heauen and earth,
shall succour to vs send,
Who stil dooth watche with open eyes,
and neuer more dooth sléep:
No hurt can come vnto his Churche,
for he dooth stil it kéep.
The C.xxii. Psalme.
BRought vp when that the ark of God
was to
Hierusalem:
He was ful glad to hear consent,
of all his people then.
And séeing Iustice like to reign,
he wisheth ceasse of warres:
And peace to florishe in her stréetꝭ
and round about the barres.
The C.xxiii. Psalme.
CAused were some this psalme to make
whiche for their godlines:
Were mockt & scornd, and taunted eke,
of men in wickednes.
[Page]They wait as maids vpon their dames,
and tend vpon the Lord:
Beséeching mercy at his hand,
though others at them boord.
The C.xxiiii. Psalme.
DOuble (he sayth) vnles that God,
had béen on
Israels side:
Moste certainly by forren foes,
it had with them béen wide.
For quick they had deuoured them,
as flud they had ore run:
They blesse the Lord that made al thing
from whom all help dooth come.
The C.xxv. Psalme.
EChe one that in the Lord dooth trust,
shalbe as
Sion mount:
For why the Lord shalbe with him,
he may thereof account.
But godly men with wicked men,
shall not be mixt in one:
And suche as turn vnto their euils,
they shalbe wo be gone.
The C.xxvi. Psalme.
FUl ioyful shall the captiues be,
when home they doo return:
[Page]And
Sion shall for ioy then laugh,
and make an end to moorn.
And Gentiles shall report and say,
that God hath greatly doon:
For suche as out with teares did go
with songs they shall home come.
The C.xxvii. Psalme.
GOne vnto nought is all the woork
bestowe you nere the cost:
Except the Lord doo build the house,
the labour is but lost.
It is in vain to watche at all,
vnlesse the Lord doo wake:
The early rising shall not help,
God, fruteful shall thée make.
The C.xxviii. Psalme.
HOw happy he shalbe he telth,
that alwayes God dooth fear
His handy labour he shall eat,
his wife him frute shall bear.
With
Sion in his prosperitie,
and eke
Hierusalem:
He shall beholde and Gransire be
and
Israels peace yken.
The C.xxix. Psalme.
[Page]IN chéerful wise may
Israel
say, often times they haue
Me fought against: euen from my youth,
but God he did me saue.
Confounded shall the plowers be,
that plowd vpon my back:
And all that
Sion once did hate,
their power shalbe but slack.
The C.xxx. Psalme.
KIng
Dauid as some men suppose,
béeing sore vext of
Saule:
Out of the depth vnto the Lord,
he did bothe cry and call.
Beséeching him for to forgiue,
his sinnes and set him frée:
The
Israelites some thing y
[...]t made,
in their captiuitie.
The C.xxxi. Psalme.
LIfted aloft his hart is not,
ne yet his eyes with pride:
Nor yet in things passing his reache,
he hath not walkt aside.
But hath his soule as nurced childe,
kept stil in perfet awe:
And willeth them to wait for him
the authour of their law.
The C.xxxii. Psalme.
MEn may suppose this Psalme to be,
made of King
Salomon:
Beséeching God his fathers broyles
that he would think theron.
Who once had vowd a house to make,
for God therin to shade:
And how that préestꝭ and people eke,
should ioy to sée it made.
The C.xxxiii. Psalme.
NOte and beholde how good it is,
bréethern in peace to dwel:
Like
Aarons beard anointed fair,
it hath a plesant smel.
And as the dewes that fall from hie
dooth make the earth increace:
So God shall make his blessing fall,
on séekers of his peace.
The C.xxxiiii. Psalme.
O All ye seruantꝭ of the Lord,
sing prayses to his name:
Yée that attend vpon his house,
ceasse not to doo the same:
To lift vp hands on hie to him,
and eke the Lord to praise:
[Page]So shall the Lord vs blesse again,
who made bothe night and dayes.
The C.xxxv. Psalme.
PErfourm ye lauds vnto the Lord,
that
Iacobs house did chuse:
He passeth all the Gentiles Gods,
the God I mean of Iewes.
Who out of
Egipt led his flock,
and gaue them
Canaan:
The dummy Gods are painted out,
and God is blessed than.
The C.xxxvi. Psalme.
QUenche not your zeal but stil confes,
that God is God for ay:
And that his mercy dooth indure,
for euer and a day.
For all his woorks that he hath made
we haue good cause therto:
And for his priuate benefites,
that he hath shewd to you.
The C.xxxvii. Psalme.
RIght rufully a song they sung,
sitting in
Babilon:
Expressing eke the tauntꝭ of them,
that looked them vpon▪
[Page]Beséeching God them to reward,
that did them so anoy▪
And blesseth them that
Babilon,
shall hap for to destroy.
The C.xxxviii. Psalme.
SUche goodnes as he found of God,
in troubles and in néed:
He dooth intend to celebrate,
to giue him all the méed.
Before the great he wil not shrink▪
they shall not make him dum:
In midst of foes for help he hopes,
yea, in the time to come.
The C.xxxix. Psalme.
TO God there is nothing vnknowne
bothe thoughtꝭ, and woordꝭ, & déedꝭ:
He séeth all as creatour,
and so stil must he néeds.
There is no way to scape his hands,
he made him by his might:
For wicked men he praith the end,
and him to guide aright.
The C.xl. Psalme.
UNlose me Lord to God (he saith,)
from wicked mens deuice:
[Page]Who with their
[...]ungs doo me belye,
and séek my life to trise.
But God his God he dooth so make,
that little dooth he care:
And knowes that God to help the iust
it is not to him rare.
The C.xli. Psalme.
AS he among the wicked dwelt
within the Courtꝭ of
Saule:
He prayeth God that he doo not,
suche sin as they in fall.
And that he would preserue him eke,
and saue him from their ginnes
And if he light within their snares,
that he may break their grinnes.
The C.xlii. Psalme.
BEing close hid with in a caue,
for fear of
Saule his foe:
He praith to God in his distresse,
to saue and help him so.
That out of darknes as a naile,
he would his soule out take:
And so his prayers béeing heard,
the iust his part should take.
The C.xliii. Psalme.
[Page]CAll vnto God again he dooth,
as one opprest with foes:
As one whose soule and spirite also,
was set with many woes.
To hear him and deliuer him,
and eke to teache his way:
And him to saue for his names sake,
thus dooth his seruant pray.
The C.xliiii. Psalme.
DAuid héer dooth now mixe his Psalme,
with thanks for foes opprest:
Affirming man and all his dayes
to be but vain and prest.
To passe away as dooth a shade,
then dooth he God intreat:
His other foes for to suppresse,
and make his quiet seate.
The C.l
[...]v. Psalme.
EUen as before ful often times
so héer he dooth declare:
The maruels of the mightie God,
how wonderful they are.
His goodnes and his clemency,
his mercy and his might:
How things that wait on him for food,
he féedeth them ful right.
The C.xlvi. Psalme.
FUl plesantly this himne and thrée
that doo the same sucséed:
Dooth set out prayses to the Lord,
with mouth and minde in déed.
Forbidding confidence to put,
in any princes might:
But trust the maker of the heauens,
that giues the blinde his sight.
The Cxlvii: Psalme.
GO foorth he dooth and willeth laud
[...],
Hierusalem to make:
Whiche mightely did woork for it
and stil her parte did take.
Stil filling her with benefits,
and
Sion eke therto:
The like to others did hée not,
as he did them vnto.
The C.xlviii. Psalme.
HEer dooth he wil the Angels hie,
and all the powers aboue:
With fier, depth, and Dragons great,
and all things that dooth mooue.
Bothe heat & colde, bothe yung and olde
the people and their King:
[Page]The mountaines, trées, & créeping beastꝭ
all lauds to him to sing.
The Cxlix. Psalme.
IN this his Psalme he dooth exhort,
the
Israelites to praise:
Their God and King with instrumentꝭ,
his people doo him please.
He telth also that they shall ioy,
in victory to come:
On Gentiles and their Kings therto,
suche ioy shall light on some.
The C.l. Psalme.
KNit vp he dooth his psalmes with this
that suche as musick vse:
Their instruments to laud the Lord,
they should them therfore chuse.
Exhorting all that breatheth breath,
to laud and doo the same:
And so with this he makes an end,
praise yée his holy name.
FINIS.
¶Thus ended are the Psalmes in course,
an hundreth fortie ten:
[Page]In songs as they deuided are,
I mean the sum of them.
And if in place some woord or line,
or verse be out of frame:
Yet bear with me, Iudge my good wil,
and gladly mend the
[...]ame.
And freend or foe that shall me tel,
by any maner wise:
VVhere I haue mist miscanning right,
not vsing meeter guise.
I shall right gladly giue mine ear,
to harken to his talke:
And with my pen I wil be sure,
his councel not to balke.
Now perfet Prouerbs followe next,
of Salomon the King:
VVho so his rules they doo obserue▪
good life they shall him bring.
The sum and pith of all the law▪
of God the Lord is heer:
And perfet maners who so list,
to learn let him come neer.
And listen wel and giue his minde,
to print them in his hart:
VVith life therto whiles he dooth liue
so shall he wel depart.
FINIS.
The i. Chapiter.
ALl creatures he dooth wil to bear,
record what he shall say:
How god had béen vnto the Iewes
ful merciful alway.
But séeing God they did not fear,
he threatneth them ful sore:
That God would ease him on his gréef
yet sauing some in store.
The ii. Chapiter.
BEfore he telth by Prophesie,
how that the Gentiles all:
Should be conuerted to the Lord,
and woorship him they shall.
Laying aside all variance,
and strife against the Lord:
But
Israel should plagued be,
because he was vntoward.
The iii. Chapiter.
CAst out he would the heads and chéef,
of all among the Iewes:
And send them children for to rule,
he telleth them this newes.
[Page]And all because their pride was suche,
their rulers went astray:
Their women eke should baldnes haue,
whose tussocks had béen gay.
The iiii. Chapiter.
DEstruction shall so light on them
their men shall so decay:
That wemen seuen shall take one man,
to be to them a stay.
But after this the Lord shall turn
his heauy wrathful hand:
And cause the remnant of the Iust,
in peace to haue the land.
The v. Chapiter.
ESay dooth now begin to sing,
a song for to describe:
The Churche how like a vine it is,
wel fenst on euery side.
But no good grape yet did it bear,
but braunches foorth it brought:
So curseth hée their gréedines,
excesse and things they wrought.
The vi. Chapiter.
FUl power he hath to Prophesie
God sitting in his throne:
[Page]Dooth send him foorth to tel the flock,
their sinnes him self alone.
Their eares they stopt they would not hear
their hartꝭ they were so hard:
They had no awe vnto his woords,
they did him not regard.
The vii. Chapiter.
GO tel the King, God said to him
the enemies shall not harm:
That
Iuda haue conspired to hurt,
regard not thou the swarm.
A s
[...]gne was giuen a virgin should,
conceiue and bear a childe:
So long before of Christe he tolde,
whose comming should be milde.
The viii. Chapiter.
HOw
Israel and
Iuda bothe,
as captiues should be led:
Th'
Assirians power he telth before,
who should of them be hed.
And how that Christe moste holy then
should be a stumbling stone:
Exhort he dooth to godlines
the faithful euery one.
The ix. Chapiter.
[Page]IN darknes though the Gentiles sa
[...],
yet vnto light they shall:
Be calld by Christe who is the God,
that ruleth ouer all.
To the ten tribes he telth before,
that they should be cast out:
Because they did contemn the Lord,
and were so proud and stout.
The x. Chapiter.
KNowe wo and pain they shall that do
[...]
make lawes the poore to noy:
Th'
Assirian prince should plague his churche
and God would him destroy.
And yet to comfort his elect,
a remnant he dooth say:
For all the spoile should yet be sa
[...]'de,
and kept vntil a day.
The xi. Chapiter.
LIneally how Christe should come,
of
Iesses stock he telth:
And of his vertues and his power
whiche far alone excelth.
The mightie power shalbe ful milde
at time when he shall reign:
His fréendꝭ shall floorish his foes shal fear
their brags shalbe but vain.
The xii. Chapiter.
MUche laud & praise shal then be made
and sing they shall with chéer:
Though God was angry with his flock,
yet mercies now appéer.
And saying we saluation may,
now hope to draw from him:
His name we wil set out and praise
let
Sion sing this himn▪
The xiii. Chapiter.
NOw dooth he tel how God should call,
the
Medis in their might:
The
Persians eke for to appéer
his battail for to fight.
For to destroy the
Babel power,
and bring their pride ful lowe:
And all their fame and progeny,
out right to ouerthrowe.
The xiiii. Chapiter.
ONe cause he telth why
Babilon,
should so destroyed be:
Because the Iewes there captiues were
but so should be set frée.
And how he should derided be,
and come vnto his end:
[Page]The
Philistins for all his death,
no ioy should apprehend.
The xv. Chapiter.
PErfourm would God yet further more
and
Moab would he smite:
Their chéefest townes should taken be,
and spoild from them by might.
Their riuer great should stayned be,
with blood of their owne stock,
Their ruine should on them so light,
for hurting of his flock.
The xvj. chapiter.
QUit him now God dooth ful intend,
of
Moab for his pride:
Because his Churche they would not help
when hurtꝭ did them betide.
Their pride therfore shall haue a fall,
he telleth to them plain:
In thrée yéeres space the multitude
should taken be or slain.
The xvii. chapiter.
REwarded should
Damascus be
the
Sirians he dooth mean:
And
Ephraim that did decline,
should néee be wasted clean.
[Page]By scourges great they should repent,
their straying so from God:
A forren power shall them inuade,
but sudenly forbod.
The xviii Chapiter.
SUche ships as sayled on the sea,
by
Ethiopia might:
He wilth to flée with wings of sailes,
to tel the world the plight.
That
Israel was brought vnto,
for breaking of their law:
How Gentiles should be calld to grace,
and stand of God in awe.
The xix. Chapiter.
THe burden of the heauy plague,
that
Egipt should sustain:
By
Assirian power because they put,
their trust in Idols vain.
Yet shall the Lord giue them his law
and
Assur eke the same:
And
Israel in midst of them,
these thrée shall praise his name▪
The xx. Chapiter.
WHen woords would not make them beléeue
what
Esay then said:
[Page]A signe he gaue by nakednes,
that so they should be paid.
For thrée yéeres space th'
Assirians should
the
Ethiopians broile:
And
Egipt land likewise subdue.
not sparing bothe to spoile.
The xxj. chapiter.
AGain he telth how
Babilon,
should quite be ouerthrowne▪
Babel is falne,
Babel is falne,
so should the noyes be blowne.
Idumea and
Arabie,
the like should them befall:
The
Medes and eke
Persians,
should bring them in to thrall.
The xxii. chapiter.
BEcause
Hierusalem did trust,
in walles and diches déep:
Therfore the Prophet telth their fall,
whiche causeth him to wéep.
And how that
Sobna had him made,
a Sepulture in vain:
For why as captiue he should die,
with tossed life in pain.
The xxiii. Chapiter.
[Page]CAst down he saith that God would doo,
the pride of
Tirus town:
The marchants that had world at wil,
should be of small renown.
And yet when yéeres are past and gone,
that for her plague are sent:
Shée should again to former stat
[...],
be set and so repent.
The xxiiii. chapiter.
DEclare he dooth that God wil curse,
and strike the earth for sin:
Bothe hed and foot none should escape,
when that he dooth begin.
And yet not so but that a few,
should wel escape the same:
Unto the end that they might shew
the prayses of his name.
The xxv. Chapiter.
EXalt he dooth the Lord aboue,
and praise him euermore:
For punishing the wicked so,
whiche set not by his
[...]ore.
And for the sparing of his flock,
and forcing foes to vade:
By similitude vnto his saints,
a feast to them he made.
The xxvi. Chapiter.
FAithful men héer sing to their God,
and doo therin confesse:
Their sauing helth to come from him,
and eke also their peace.
And how the dead in perfet shape,
shall rise out of the dust:
And how the Lord shall visit them,
that in him had no trust.
The xxvii. Chapiter.
GOd wil destroy
Leuiathan,
the Deuil and all his might:
And wil defend his vine the Churche,
and purge her in his sight.
Then shall shée render to the Lord,
his laudes with willing wil:
When from their foes they be returnd,
vnto his holy hil.
The xxviii. Chapiter.
HOw God would plague the
Israelites,
who wine so fast did drink:
That drunkennes they wayed more,
then on his law to think.
The stumbling stone that he would lay,
and woork his wil when hée:
[Page]Should sée his time and point his place,
how euery thing should be.
The xxix. Chapiter.
IErusalem shall punisht be,
their sacrifice shall ceace:
Their aulter shall oreturned be,
their foes on them shall preace.
With lips alone and dreames of men,
because they did him serue:
He would them strike and yet of looue,
some séed he would preserue.
The xxx. chapiter.
KNowing that they at
Egipt sought,
for help in their distresse:
And that they did the Prophets mock,
whiche sought them to redresse.
Therfore he telth destruction,
to light vpon the swarme:
But yet all suche as doo repent,
he saith shall take no harme.
The xxxi. Chapiter.
LIkewise the Lord dooth curse all thē,
that doo his help forsake:
And put their trust in man or horse,
fore him that did them make.
[Page]And yet stil fauour he dooth, faith,
to them that wil amend:
And cast their Idols quite away,
on whom they did depend.
The xxxii. Chapiter.
MUche good dooth come when rulers good
haue place to sit & Iudge:
The nature of a churle is suche,
against the poore to grudge.
That careles wemen shall lament,
the ruine shalbe suche:
But when that Christ shal come to reign
their comfort shalbe muche.
The xxxiii. Chapiter.
NO gain at all shall they obtain,
that doo the Churche molest:
When they haue spoild & doon their wil,
God wil their déeds detest.
And giue vnto his flock a pause,
while he dooth strike their foes:
That better they may kéep his lawes,
that all their dooings knowes.
The xxxiiii. chapiter.
OF very looue that God dooth bear,
to his elected sorte:
[Page]He wil imbrue his swoord in blood,
to bate the wicked porte.
And so destroy the cursed train,
their Cittie so deface:
That Oule & Rauen with
Ziim and
Lim,
shall there haue dwelling place.
The xxxv. chapiter.
PErfet good ioy, beléef in Christe,
to suche that héer doo dwel:
Dooth bring to them their office tolde
that preache to men Gospel.
And eke the frute of those that hear,
the preching of it right:
To
Sion shall they turn again,
and that in ioyful plight.
The xxxvi. Chapiter.
QUestionles the pride was great,
of
Rabsaketh the Prince:
He thought by threats to make y
e Iewes,
not able for to quinche.
Blaspheming God with spiteful taunts
and bragging in the might:
Of his great King
Senacherib,
he spake his spéeche in spight.
The xxxvii. Chapiter.
[Page]REnting his clothes,
Ezechiah
axt councel of
Esay:
Who tolde him plain he néed not fear,
the Lord his foes would pay.
Senacherib blasphemde again,
then
Ezechiah praid:
An Angel did his foes destroy,
so fel it as was sayd.
The xxxviiii. Chapiter.
SO sick then fel
Ezechiah,
God did him helth restore:
And caused him prolong his yéeres,
for fiftéen had he more.
Then gaue he thanks vnto the Lord,
when signe of helth he saw:
And leaues of Figs vnto his pain,
were layd his sore to drawe.
The xxxix. chapiter.
THen was the King reprooued muche,
Ezechiah by name:
For shewing of his treasures great,
to men that were of fame.
And that was to Embassadours,
that came from
Babilon:
Therfore the Prophet
Esay saith
thou shalt be wo begon.
The xl. Chapiter.
WHiche way our sinnes remitted be,
by Christe he telth before:
And of Iohn Baptist he dooth shew,
and what shalbe his lore.
Rebuking eke Idolaters,
describing them ful plain:
And eke all those whiche God forsook,
and man dooth trust ful vain.
The xli. Chapiter.
ALone dooth God his people chuse
and that of mercy méer:
They béeing those among them selues
eche one dooth other chéer.
With comfort he dooth comfort them
their Idolles are but vain:
No things to come can tel but God
ne make that douts be plain.
The xlii. Chapiter.
BEholde he wilth that ready prest
is Christe for to obay:
In humblenes by suffering wise,
for our offence to pay.
The deafe, the blinde, and prisoners,
with suche like to reléeue:
[Page]The Gentiles all shall called be,
vnto the right beléeue.
The xliii. Chapiter.
CAst care aside and haue good hope,
let nought make you afraid▪
Thou
Iacobs house, for I thy God,
wil surely be thyne ayd:
Alone I wil thy foes confound,
and eke also remit:
Thy sin my self of my good wil,
and think no more of it.
The xliiii. Chapiter.
DOo dout away, be of good chéer,
yet once again my flock:
I am the same that alwayes hath,
born looue vnto your stock.
The Image and the woorkmaster,
are vain and perishe shall:
Though they be false he wil perfourm,
his seruants sayings all.
The xlv. Chapiter.
ERect a King he would, that should,
set frée his Churche at large:
Cirus by name was he that should
receiue of God the charge.
[Page]There is none iust but God alone
that ruleth ouer all:
Who wil so woork that euery knée,
shall down before him fall.
The xlvi. Chapiter.
FAlne flat to ground is
Babilon,
their Idols eke of golde:
Are beaten down whiche in the stréetꝭ▪
their shoulders vp did holde.
The Iewes he calth that they should mark
his woorkꝭ of wūders wrought:
His Iustice and his mercy bothe,
should soon to them be brought.
The xlvii. Chapiter.
GOd now dooth tel why
Babel great,
should once be set a side:
Because that shée no mercy shewd,
when
Iuda shée did guide.
And for their pride and bragging boste,
and eke her foolishe trust:
That in enchaunting shée did put,
now féel her fall shée must.
The xlviii. Chapiter.
HE telth of their Hipocrisie,
and dooth the same reprooue:
[Page]Deferring yet them to reward,
so mooued by his looue.
Exhorting them to worship him,
for that to him is due:
So would he out of
Babilon ▪
deliuer all their crue.
The xlix. Chapiter.
I Doo exhort yée nations all,
that yée beléeue and holde:
The promises whiche God hath plight
and often to you tolde.
For sauing helth vnto you all,
if you the same beléeue:
By Christe and eke deliuerance,
from foes yée shall atchéeue.
The l. Chapiter.
KNowne vnto God was wel the cause
why he the Iewes forsook:
The cause was their Iniquitie,
the whiche in hand they took.
Yet should they knowe the power of God
not minisht long to be:
Christe shall obay and vpper hand,
of foes attain shall he.
The li. Chapiter.
[Page]LOok wel vpon the faith that once,
in
Abraham was found:
For I am hée, thus saith the Lord,
that shall thy foes confound.
Though scourged be
Hierusalem,
yet shall their woful crosse:
Be profitable vnto them,
therby to haue no losse.
The lii. Chapiter.
MAke mery yée my people all,
captiuitie is past:
And ioyful fréedome ye shall haue,
giuen vnto you at last.
His messengers he wil send out,
their beautie shall excel:
But one of all aboue the rest,
shall bear away the bel.
The liii. Chapiter.
NOt one almoste that should beléeue,
in Christe because that hée:
So simple should appéer to men,
and in suche pouertie.
And yet him self should bear away,
our sinnes vpon the crosse:
And eke the pain vnto them due,
so paying all our losse.
The liiii. Chapiter.
OF Gentiles mo the Gospel shall,
imbrace, then of the Iewes:
And frute shall bring accordingly,
as hearers of suche newes.
So God his people wil forsake,
and stand aside a while:
But yet at length he wil return,
and fréendly on them smile.
The lv. Chapiter.
PRoclaim he dooth, who so is dry,
come drink withouten cost:
And pay no more to stay your thirst,
your labour is but lost.
Draw néer to God while he is nie,
and doo away your sin:
His woord shall not out from him passe,
but somewhat it shall win.
The lvi. chapiter.
QUēche not the right, let Iustice passe
to Iudges he dooth speak:
And saith for all, his house shalbe,
therin their plaintꝭ to break.
The watche men blinde as Dogs are dum
they wake but for their gain:
[Page]From day to day to fil in wine,
there in is all their pain.
The lvii. Chapiter.
RIghteous God taketh hence,
lest they of plagues should taste:
Whiche he preparde to punishe sin
vpon the earth to cast.
Idolatrers they be rebukte,
for seruing Idols vain:
No peace can be to wicked men,
but war and endles pain.
The lviii. Chapiter.
SPare not but cry should ministers,
as watche men should they blowe:
And tel the people their offence,
not sparing hie or lowe.
How Hipocrites look all for méed,
in fasting of their fast:
Of violence and dooing wrong,
suche food we should not taste.
The lix. Chapiter.
THe wicked by his wickednes,
doothe perishe and decay:
But godly men their sin confes,
and so are doon away.
[Page]For God him self his Churche wil saue,
when strength of man dooth faile:
His woord adioyned to his spirite,
shall ouer all preuaile.
The Lx. Chapiter.
UNto the knowledge of the truthe,
the Gentiles shall be brought:
And heapes of them should come to god,
as one that hath them bought.
And
Sion that forsaken was,
and often had il luck:
Should be refresht w
t paps of Quéenes,
for on them should shée suck.
The Lxi. Chapiter.
ANointed Christe is sent to preache
the wretched to reléeue:
And sauing helth to giue to them,
whiche on him doo beléeue.
For whiche the faithful doo reioyce,
and lauds vnto him bring:
He shall cause vertue in his Churche,
abundantly to spring.
The Lxii. Chapiter.
BEhold the day right fain they would
wherin that they might sée:
[Page]The Christe that should by promise tolde
set them at large and frée.
Good pastours ceasse not for to preache,
and teache the way aright:
How people shall escape the rod,
that els on them should light.
The lxiii. Chapiter.
COme foorth and doo his feat alone
shall God, his Churche to saue:
And in his wrath tread down the foes,
that gainst his flock did raue.
Great benefits of his méer looue,
to his stil shew he dooth:
Though
Abram doo not knowe our state
yet God it kens forsooth.
The lxiiii. Chapiter.
DIrect he dooth to God his spéeche,
his prayers dooth begin:
Intreating not that he would think,
vpon the peoples sin.
But rather that of him they might,
some succour féel and taste:
In waying how their church was burnt,
and Cittie lay ful wast.
The lxv. Chapiter.
[Page]EFtsoones he telth how Gentiles shall
him séek and eke imbrace:
And how that Iewes for scorning him
should be set in their place
Muche ioy the chosen should atchéeue,
where as contrary wise:
Great punishement shall on them light,
that doo his name despise.
The Lxvi. Chapiter.
FUl hie abooue God hath his seat,
and eke in hart of man:
And not in temple made by men,
and sacrifices than.
He dooth mislike when mercy wantꝭ:
oppressed he reléeues:
The wicked with eternall pain,
by Iustice stil he gréeues.
FINIS.
¶Thus haue you heard this Prophet speak,
of Christe his kingdome muche:
Rebuking sin with threats ful sore,
against bothe poor and riche.
And how the Iewes should feel the stroke
of Gods ful mightie hand:
[Page]By spoiles and waste that forren foes
should make within their land.
And yet not quite forsaken should,
they be, when they did yeeld:
But be restorde and turne againe,
their Cittie for to build.
And that their foes whiche once did flowe,
and floorishe in their fume:
At length should stoup and to them bow,
and should no more presume.
To doo them harme, and some of them
should quite their Kingdomes leese:
And heaps of Gentiles God should serue,
ful humbly on their knees.
For magistrates that Iudge not iust,
and Prelates in their pride:
And people stout with necks ful stiffe,
he telth what shall betide.
Now Ieremy shall shew him self,
what God by him did speak:
VVho very yung was sent of God,
his minde to Iewes to break.
And fortie yeeres he prophesied,
fiue Kings were come and gone,
At home he taught and eke abroad
to them at Babilon.
The i. Chapiter.
AT what time he did prophecy,
and also how that he:
Did think him self not to be meet,
to be as he should be.
But God dooth him incourage foorth▪
and bids him to be bolde:
So then of their captiuitie,
by
Ieremy is tolde.
The ii. Chapiter.
BEfore their eyes he dooth set out
what God for them had wrought:
How they again and eke their préests,
did set the Lord at nought.
Therfore their sinne shall them destroy,
so that they shall not say:
That God is cause or hath delight,
that they should so decay.
The iii. Chapiter.
CRy out he dooth and calth on them,
their sinnes for to repent:
So should their Churche be heald again,
God would from wrath relent.
comparison he dooth make:
Whiche for their whoring Idoll wise,
deuorcement he would make.
The iiii. Chapiter.
DOutles if truly they repent,
God would them not subuert:
The Circumcision outwardly,
not like to that in hart.
How
Iudah should destroyed be,
for their vngodlinesse:
For whiche the Prophet dooth lament,
in séeing their distresse.
The v. Chapiter.
EUery sort were falne away,
from subiect vnto hed:
Bothe swearing false, and whorishe life
as neyghing horse they led.
Therfore should
Iudah be destroyed,
the
Caldeys should them wast:
So should they for their sinful life,
suche sorowes féel and taste.
The vi. Chapiter.
FRom far their foes should cōe & flock,
their Cittie to bese
[...] ▪
[Page]Their sin was cause they cared not
when preachers did them threat.
The
Caldeys should this reuel make,
not sparing yung nor olde:
He willeth them to mourn, but they
regard not what is tolde.
The vii. Chapiter.
GOd dooth rebuke the confidence,
in temple that they had:
For there they thought to make amends
though life were nere so bad.
Muche euil should surely light on them,
for Prophets they despise:
Obedience God better likes,
then any sacrifice.
The viii. Chapiter.
HE telth what reuel forren power
should make among the Iewes:
And how if that they did repent,
they should haue better newes.
The Prophets false hée dooth rebuke,
for vttering of lies:
Lamenting muche their sorrowe sharp
that should against them rise.
The ix. Chapiter.
[Page]IN séeing what disceit did reign,
he wisheth that he dwelt:
Him self alone in wildernes,
where no suche thing is felt.
In knowing God we onely ought
therein our ioy to finde:
The circumcision of the fleshe,
not like that is in minde.
The x. Chapiter.
KNowe wel they might that Gods of golde
of wood and siluer eke:
Be far from Gods when they can not
once go▪ ne stand, or speak.
Their pastours were but beastꝭ eche one
their flocks did wander wide:
In man there is no good at all,
for succour yet shée
[...]ride.
The xi. Chapiter.
LOok wel they ought to kéep the law,
for els hée dooth them curse:
When they were wild for to amend,
they were so muche the woorse.
Their fathers steps in worship false,
they walke to their decay:
To Idols help he wilth to séek,
for them he might not pray.
The xii. Chapiter.
MUche muse he dooth at wickeds welth
yet God remayneth iust:
The Iewes forsaken of the Lord,
in him they did not trust▪
The shepheards did the shéep seduce,
and trod his vine to ground:
And if conuert from sinnes they would,
then fauour should be found.
The xiii. Chapiter.
NOt woords alone but signes therto,
God addid them to warne:
But nought would help their life so bad
they Iustly took their harme.
Why God to fauour did them take,
and why he them refusde:
If they would mend the wicked life,
they should not be misusde.
The xiiii. Chapiter.
OF dearth that on the land should fal
and how the people praid:
And suche as faith did want to them,
their prayers are denaid.
The prophets that by false reporte,
did say from God they came:
[Page]Should féel the thing that they denied,
suche peace by lies they wan.
The xv. Chapiter.
PAst help they were tho
Moyses should
and
Samuel for them pray:
Yet pestilence with swoord and dearth,
and captiue led away.
Shuld light on them yet some shuld rest,
to God them dooth he call:
In mid among the rout, God made
him as a brasen wall.
The xvi. Chapiter.
QUaint not thy self with womā kinde,
a wife to thée to take:
For plague I wil this people sore,
and captiues them wil make.
In
Babilon: and yet return
they shall vnto this land:
The Gentiles shall their Gods forsake,
and take the truthe in hand.
The xvii. Chapiter.
RIght froward were the Iewes and curst
for putting trust in man:
Whose hart ful wicked is and il,
God onely searche it can.
[Page]The liuing waters they forsook,
the Saboth day they brake:
Whiche if in time they mended not,
their fier should not
[...]lake.
The xviii. Chapiter.
SUche power as in the potter is,
to break his pottes at wil:
Suche power hath God (who can deny?)
his foes with force to kil.
The Iewes conspierd that
Ieremy
should vexed be with spéed:
And he to God his prayers made,
to plague them and their séed.
The xix. Chapiter.
TEl thou the heads, said God to him,
that they shall perishe all:
For sheding blood, and offring vp
their seruice vnto
Ball.
Afore them all thy bottle break
of earth out of thy hand:
Euen so likewise tel them, I wil
destroy them and their land.
The xx. Chapiter.
WHē
Pashur heard that
Ieremy preacht
he stroke him and thereto:
[Page]To iayle he went it helped not,
he taught as wunt to doo.
It gréeu'd him muche y
t they him mockt
he thought to holde his peace:
The woord so boyled in his brest,
to speak he could not cease▪
The xxi. Chapiter.
AGain when he was wild to tel,
what should of them become:
He said by swoord and pestilence,
all should be slain saue some.
And those should be suche of the Iewes
as would them selues submit:
And be content in
Caldey land,
as captiues for to sit.
The xxii. Chapiter.
BIdden he was to tel the King,
that Iustice he should vse:
If not, that God would vtterly,
bothe him and his refuse.
Suche as with wrong their houses build▪
he cryeth on them wo:
Because in welth they would not hear
[...]
their pride should come ful lowe.
The xxiii. Chapiter.
[Page]CUrse he dooth héer frō God his mouth,
suche pastours as doo féed
Them selues: and let the flock alone,
God wil them pay in déed.
And pastours pure he wil prouide,
wherof one shall be chéef:
From
Dauids house as King to guide,
by him to haue reléef.
The xxiiii. Chapiter.
DEclare God dooth by baskets twaine,
with Figs bothe good and bad:
What should become vpon the flock,
as he decréed had.
Whiche was that some should haue return
and liue in rest and peace:
The King should not with many mo,
whose hartꝭ he could not pearce.
The xxv. Chapiter.
EXiled men in
Babilon,
the Iewes for sin should bée:
Ful seuentie yéeres the Prophet saith,
in their captiuitie.
At which yéeres end that mightie power
shalbe subuerted quite.
And in like wise he telth before,
all rule shall lose their might.
The xxvi. Chapiter.
FUl earnestly he dooth them mooue,
their sinnes for to repent:
They brought him foorth, he telth his tale
the Iudges did relent.
But
Vriah who fled for fear,
was fetcht from
Egipt land:
Iehoyaku of
Iudah King,
him slue with swoord in hand.
The xxvii. Chapiter.
GOd willed him that he should send
bothe yokes and bonds also,
To Princes, for to testify
in bondage they should go.
And who so would refuse to serue,
Nabuchodonozer,
Should plagued be, therfore he wilth
false Prophets not to hear.
The xxviii. Chapiter.
HAnaniah the Prophet false
did prophecy a lie:
And
Ieremy did him reprooue
afore great company.
Also a freshe he prophecied,
because his yoke was burst:
[Page]That bondage muche should come to them
and that therto then trust.
The xxix. Chapiter.
IN written woords he sent to them,
that then in
Babel were,
That they should plant, & wed, and pray
for suche as ruled there.
For seuentie yéeres should passe and go,
ere they should turn again:
And in that space their land and power,
should wasted be and slain.
The xxx. Chapiter.
KNowledge again frō
Ieremies mouth,
was giuen to
Israel:
That they should home again return,
within their land to dwel
And how that God would him reuenge
vpon their furious foes:
But comfort his afflicted Churche,
and saue her from her woes.
The xxxi. Chapiter.
LArge blessing héer he telth to come,
when home they should return:
All ioy shall come and plesantnes,
to suche as once did mourn.
[Page]A couenant new within their hartꝭ,
also he plight to make:
That he would be their God in déed,
if they not him forsake.
The xxxii. Chapiter.
MAny were the miseries that,
Ieremy did sustain:
For now he is in prison cast,
for speaking out so plain.
A féeld he bought and hid the book,
that did record the same:
His prayers he made and once again,
their turning home did name.
The xxxiii. Chapiter.
NOw is the Prophet wild to pray,
for their return and rest:
Whiche ful and whole is graunted them
as they had had it erst.
With pardon for their former sinnes,
without their owne desartꝭ.
And Christe to reign in
Dauids throne,
for euer in their hartꝭ.
The xxxiiii. Chapiter.
OF
Zedechiah who was King,
of
Iuda: what should come:
[Page]How he should taken be and his,
when Cittie and all is wun.
Because the couenant they did break,
to bond folke that they made:
Their lot with pine or pestilence,
should be or els with blade.
The xxxv. Chapiter.
PUt foorth he dooth as God him bade,
the
Rechabites for lore:
Who would not break the olde preceptꝭ
from fathers had tofore.
But Iewishe pride would not obey,
though often they were warnd:
Therfore to ruine they should go,
the
Rechabites not harmd.
The xxxvi. Chapiter.
QUenched lest y
t his woords should be,
God bad to write them all:
So
Baruch did and red the role,
before bothe great and small.
The King a little heard of it,
and burnt the book in fire:
Again with more it written was,
and God prouokte to ire.
The xxxvii. Chapiter.
[Page]RIght soon as
Zedechiah reignd,
to
Ieremy he sent,
To pray for him. By
Egipt power
the
Caldeys away went.
As
Ieremy was prest away,
in dungeon was he cast:
But when the King had talkt with him,
he begd a better taste.
The xxxviii. Chapiter.
SO fairly spake the councellours,
the Princes eares vntil,
That
Ieremy to dungeon went,
there thought they him to kil.
An Enuche black his life did saue,
and drue him vp with cordes:
The King and he did talke alone,
he might not tel the Lords.
The xxxix. Chapiter.
THe
Babel power the Cittie took,
and
Zedechiah fled:
He was ouer caught, his sonnes were slain
his eyes put out of his hed.
The poore alone are left in land,
and
Ieremy at large:
Who gaue them more that did him good,
a comfortable charge.
The xl. Chapiter.
UNto two things the Prophet had
a choise at wil to chuse.
Babel to sée, or tary stil
the first he did refuse.
Suche as for fear were fled away
to
Godoliah came:
Whom
Babel King had left to rule,
all
Iudah that he wan.
The xli. Chapiter.
A Murder foule committed was
of
Ismael by name:
For
Godoliah he did kil,
who did deserue no blame.
And diuers more that wicked man,
their liues did also end:
And fled to King of
Moabites,
who therfore did him send.
The xlii. Chapiter.
BOthe moste and least to
Ieremy came
his councel to haue:
And willed him to knowe of God,
whiche way them selues to saue.
Who willed them in any wise,
to
Egipt not to wend:
[Page]For if they did that whiche they feard,
their God would it them send.
The xliii. Chapiter.
COntrary to their former graunt,
to
Egipt néeds they would:
The Prophet checkt, and
Baruch eke,
who néeds with them they should.
And there did God by
Ieremy,
tel
Egipt of her fall:
How
Nebuchadnezer in place
should rule their Gods and all.
The xliiii. Chapiter.
DEclare he dooth vnto the Iewes,
for their Idolatrie,
In
Egipt land the whiche they did,
that they should surely die.
But men and wiues with froward hartꝭ
did tel what they did deem:
We neuer throue sins that we left,
to serue the heauenly Quéen.
The xlv. Chapiter.
EUilly appaid was
Baruch then,
he thought his life but lost:
His sorrowes did increace in him
séeing the Iewes so tost.
[Page]But
Ieremy him comfort gaue,
and set his hart at stay:
For God (he said) hath giuen to thée,
thy life to be a pray.
The xlvi. Chapiter.
FRom God he speaks to
Egipt land,
and telleth them ful plain:
How that the King of
Babilon,
withall his mightie train.
Should them destroy and eke their King
their God and mightie power:
But yet his chosen
Iacobs séed,
he would not quite deuour.
The xlvii. Chapiter.
GOd bad him tel the
Philistins,
of their decay and end:
That parents to suche wo should come,
their Children not to tend.
How they of
Tire and
Zidon eke,
should wasted be also:
The wrath of God not ceasing til,
their pride were come ful lowe.
The xlviii. Chapiter.
HE telleh to the
Moabites,
their ruine and decay:
[Page]Who once like churles to
Israel,
vngraciously did say.
He curseth them that should them spare,
or stay his hand from blood:
And that because their pride was suche,
and hautie stubborn mood.
The xlix. Chapiter.
IN like (he saith) the
Ammonites,
whose valleyes were so fair
And
Esaus stock the
Edomites,
that thought of no dispair.
Damascus and
Kedar also,
whom nothing did anoy:
With
Elam eke, all these he said,
the
Caldes should destroy.
The l. Chapiter.
KNoweledge tofore of
Babels fall,
he gaue also to them:
How that the
Persians and the
Medes,
should quite destroy their steme▪
And how that God vpon his flock,
would haue a new regard:
And them restore into their state,
and giue their foes reward.
The li. chapiter.
[Page]LArgely he writes and telth the cause,
of
Babels fall and spoile:
In
Israels blood they did reioyce,
when that they had the foile.
The power of God he dooth describe,
and Idols vain denies:
He saith the
Caldeys should so fall,
as neuer more to rise.
The lii. Chapiter.
MArk wel what rebels come vnto,
let
Zedechiah preache:
He first rebeld and after fled,
his foes did him areche.
The temple burnt, the Cittie stroyd,
and thousands captiue led:
But
Iehoyakim fauour found,
the King lift vp his hed.
FINIS.
¶Thus Ieremy that liued so long,
and Kings so many saw:
That bode suche broyles for saying sooth,
to those that had no awe.
His tale is tolde, his book is doon,
now shall you hear vs tel,
How wofully he did lament,
the fall of Israel.
The Prophecy of Ezechiel▪
The i. Chapiter.
AS he in
Caldey land did dwel,
by
Chobar riuer side:
In the fift yéer that
Iehoyakim ▪
the King did there abide.
Ezechiel a vision,
of foules and whéeles did sée:
And one vpon a bowe did sit,
on hie in maiestie.
The ii. chapiter.
BIdden he was for to stand vp,
and speak against the Iewes,
Their sinnes rebuke, & how they should
his preaching quite refuse.
Rebelling stil, as auncetours
of them had doon before:
A hand he saw that helde a book,
that sorrowes threat therfore.
The iii. chapiter.
CAused he was to eat the book,
and boldenes God him gaue
With strength & power, w
t woord & sprite
him self for to behaue.
His charge is giuen, his office set,
whiche if he should neglect,
The folke in sin should perishe all,
and he for blood be checkt.
The iiii. Chapiter.
DEclare he dooth
Hierusalem
besieged for to bée:
And many yéeres the
Israelites,
to féel captiuitie.
And hunger suche on them to fall,
as like hath not béen heard:
[Page]Their excrementꝭ of force to eat,
good food should be so bard.
The v. chapiter.
EFtsoones a signe to him was giuen,
by shauing of his hear:
By burning some, by wherling some,
and little some to spare.
That so
[...] with the Pestilence,
with swoord and famine great:
Should be disperst and eke so plagued,
as Childe the Fathers meat.
The vi. chapiter.
FOr woorshipping of Images,
and Idols that are vain:
On tops on hils, and eke in vales,
he saith they shalbe slain.
A remnant yet there shalbe left,
that in their woful gréef:
Shall them repent and turn to God,
and haue of him reléef.
The vii. Chapiter.
GOd dooth by him tel plainly out,
the ruine of the land:
From Est to west, from north to south,
no part of it to stand.
[Page]But all should be subuerted quite,
he wil not chaunge his minde:
In préest or els in auncient man,
no councel should they finde.
The viii. Chapiter.
HE sitting in his house among,
the auncients in exile,
Hierusalem he went vnto,
in vision for a while.
And there suche euils in secret place,
he saw them to commit
And eke abrode whiche caused iust,
them to be plagde for it.
The ix. Chapiter.
IErusalem that did commit,
suche euils as were to bad,
Hath now suche measure méett to them,
as once they mesured had.
But one yclad in linnen white,
did mark the mourning sort▪
And they did scape when ruine fel,
the marker made report.
The x. chapiter.
KNowe moore he dooth of things tofore,
The man arayd in white:
[Page]Did fier fetche from Cherubins,
appearing to his sight.
And then the beastꝭ and eke the whéeles,
that he had séen tofore:
He saw again in vision wise,
with sundry faces foure.
The xi. Chapiter.
LEd now he was for to beholde
the chéef that ruled il:
And wild to say that they should pay,
for blood that they did spil.
A ruler died, then out he cride
to God to holde his hand:
His bown is heard, and Cherubs gone,
and he in
Caldey land.
The xii. Chapiter.
MOre plainly by a fardle born,
and packing in the day:
Their thraldome and captiuitie,
thereby perceiue they may.
A remnant yet should saued be,
to tel of all their gilt:
And spéedely the wrath should come,
though otherwaies they built.
The xiii. Chapiter.
[Page]NOw dooth he tel the Prophets false,
what should of them betide:
Their daubed wall that they had made,
it shoul
[...] not long abide.
Their women eke that pillowes made,
and kercheues for to charme,
Should perishe to, for promising
the wicked safe from harm.
The xiiii. Chapiter.
OF suche as Idols in their hartꝭ
did kéep, and yet pretends▪
The contrary, and Prophets false,
he telth of bothe their ends.
Yet stil a remnant God wil kéep,
his Churche for to increace:
The righteous men alone shall scape,
their sin he wil releace.
The xv. Chapiter.
PRofitable is not the wood,
that commeth of the vine:
No longer then it beareth frute,
wherof is made the wine:
Euen so likewise
Hierusalem,
that bringeth foorth no frute,
Shalbe consumde with fier at home
and eke in her pursute.
The xvi. Chapiter.
QUenche now their pride, he go'th about
their progeny to tel:
How bare they were, how God thē clad,
they did that was not wel.
For
Sodome nor
Samaria,
suche whordome woorked not:
In woorship false to Idoles vain,
as neuer more was wrought.
The xvij. chapiter.
REherse he dooth by Egles twain,
what shall of
Israel hap:
Who thought to plant in
Egipt power,
but it should take no sap.
Their King also that promise made,
to
Babel to obay:
For breaking of his othe to him,
ful déerly he should pay.
The xviii Chapiter.
S
[...]me (wher it falth) shal haue reward,
in him that dooth it vse:
Eche man shall bear his owne offence,
he shall none other chuse.
But who so dooth his sin repent,
shall pardon haue therfore:
[Page]And he that dooth good life forsake,
shall pay ful déer therfore.
The xix. Chapiter.
TEl now he dooth what Lions sprang
out of the Lionesse:
What catching Kings,
Hierusalem
did bréed to her distresse.
How as a vine shée floorisht once,
and did from thence decay:
And therfore now in wildernes,
there should shée dry away.
The xx. Chapiter.
UNto him came the elders then,
who did to them declare,
For all their sin from time to time,
how God yet did them spare,
Not hearing suche as yéelded not,
but wrath vpon them take,
And spare the rest that feared him,
euen for his mercies sake.
The xxi, Chapiter.
A Swoord hée saith shall all deuoure
and spare ne hie nor lowe:
The
Babel power should all destroy,
inchauntment taught him so.
[Page]The
Ammonites should also quaile,
their kingdome should be wun:
The
Babel power should them destroy,
where they their life begun.
The xxii. Chapiter.
BEholde this chapter, mark it wel,
how all was out of frame:
What sinnes there reignd in
Israel,
he dooth vnto you name.
The rulers and the Prophets eke,
the préestꝭ and people all,
In sundry sinnes withouten shame
eche one of them did fall.
The xxiii. Chapiter.
COmparison of women twain,
that whoredome doo commit,
He dooth compare to
Israel,
and
Iuda like to it.
Whose filthy foule Idolatrie,
prouoked God to ire:
The Childe first born they spared not,
to burn in flaming fire.
The xxiiii. Chapiter.
DEclare he dooth by double signes,
what they shall come vntil:
[Page]As fleshe in pot dooth séethe to scum,
so should they for their il.
His wife dooth die, he mourned not,
as he of God was wild:
No more should they haue space thereto,
when that their fréends were kild.
The xxv. Chapiter.
EUil hap should come of
Ammonites,
and
Moabites by name:
Because they did reioyce and laugh,
when
Israel had blame.
The
Edomites and
Philistines,
should eke stoup to the Est,
That is to say to
Babel power,
and be of them possest.
The xxvi. Chapiter.
FOr like offence that Cittie great,
that
Tirus
[...]ight by name:
Should haue the foile and be possest
of straungers to their shame.
The Iles and merchantꝭ wunder shall,
when they shall hear the same:
A Cittie new in ruine great,
that was of mickle fame.
The xxvij. chapiter.
[Page]GReat was the welth that
Tirus had,
he dooth tel it at length:
Their fame, their name, their quiet state
their power and eke their strength.
All these with all their men and might,
their force by sea and land:
Should be destroyd for euermore,
by might of forren band.
The xxviii. Chapiter.
HE telleth now what pride he had,
that
Tirus rul'd as King:
And of his fall and Cittie eke,
they fearing no suche thing.
To
Zidon to he shewes asmuche,
that like on them should fall:
And how Gods folke should liue in peace
when foes were stroyed all.
The xxix. Chapiter.
IN like he saith that
Egipt power,
should quite be ouer run:
And fortie yéeres it should lie waste,
after that it were wun.
The King of
Babel should it haue,
to be his souldiours gaines:
Because at
Tirus they did win
small profit for their paines.
The xxx. Chapiter.
KNowe wel you may he dooth not fain
but telth again their wo:
Their cūtrie spoild, their Citties down,
their neighbours serued so.
Their Idols eke should be defaste,
their strength should not auaile:
Their foes with force of God his power
so fiercely should assail.
The xxxi. Chapiter.
LIke power to the
Assirians,
in
Egipt could not be:
And yet
Nabuchodonozer,
the same destroyed he.
This he dooth tel that they should think,
that they might not withstand
The rage of
Babel when it com'th,
for to destroy the land.
The xxxii. Chapiter.
MUche more to make now is he wild,
for
Pharo that was King,
Who should be slain, and riuer ful
of blood should ouer spring.
As other Kings were ouerrun,
and brought vnto the pit,
[Page]So
Egipt pride should haue a fall,
as iust reward for it.
The xxxiii. Chapiter.
NOte wel this thing when preachers preache
& warning men doo giue,
They be dischargd if they repent:
they shalbe sure to liue.
Eche man shall bear his owne offence,
the godly shall haue méed:
They that did rest and at him iest,
ful wickedly should spéed.
The xxxiiii. Chapiter.
OF shepheards that their profit séek,
and not the shéep to féed,
He dooth describe what God wil doo,
euen pay them for their méed,
And take his flock in hand him self,
deuiding shéep from shéep,
And giue the flock at length to Christe,
whiche truly shall them kéep.
The xxxv. Chapiter.
PUblishe vnto
Idumea,
he dooth what God would doo:
Because that
Israel they had gréeu'd,
they should be gréeued to.
[Page]As blooddely the
Israelites,
they had with war opprest:
So should their blood be spilt again,
and none of them haue rest.
The xxxvi. Chapiter.
QUicken he dooth the
Israelites,
that they should not dispair:
For God would all their foes destroy,
and them again repair.
His mercy onely moouing him,
and not of their desartꝭ,
And take from them their stony mindes,
and giue them fleshy hartꝭ.
The xxxvii. Chapiter.
RIght soon as he in féeld was set,
a miracle he wrought:
For dried bones took fleshe and breath,
that God vnto them brought.
By whiche he telth that
Israel,
that séemed to be gone,
Should safe return and
Iuda bothe,
and be eke ioynd in one.
The xxxviii. Chapiter.
SUche enemies as should arise
he dooth them héer describe:
[Page]As
Gog and
Magog in their power,
the Churche for to deride.
And they to come in latter dayes,
as Prophets tolde tofore:
Yet God should stay their furious rage,
and punishe them therfore.
The xxxix. Chapiter.
THe Lord is bent against this
Gog,
a wretched end to haue:
Their slaughter such seuē monthꝭ to séek
to bring them vnto graue.
Then shall his people rest in peace,
and heathen tolde the cause:
Why
Israel afflicted was,
for breaking of his lawes.
The xl. Chapiter.
UNto the Cittie he is rapt,
and there he dooth beholde
The building of it fair again,
as it was to him tolde.
From gate to gate all mesurde out
an angel with a réed
An eke a line, did point the same,
as it should be in déed.
The xli. Chapiter.
[Page]AT large to him described was,
the temple then of God:
And mesurde out by Cubits méet,
euen with a réedy rod.
The holy place, the Cherubins,
and eke the Palmy trées:
The courts, the doores, with all at large,
in vision he sées.
The xlii. Chapiter.
BRought now he is to th'vtter court,
the chambers for to sée:
In length and bredth, and tolde he is
that there the préestꝭ should be
Apointed for to tire them selues,
their portion eke to eat:
And holy rowmes therin, to lay,
the sacrificing meat.
The xliii. Chapiter.
COme now he is for to beholde,
the glory of the Lord:
Who wilth him tel the
Israelites,
that they shalbe restorde,
If they repent their former life,
and doo no more there after:
Then dooth he sée set out to him,
the fashion of the aulter.
The xliiii. Chapiter.
DEclare he dooth good wholesom rules
his préestꝭ for to obserue:
Look whiche of them had Idols likte,
as préestꝭ they might not serue.
What robes to were, what wiues to take,
to them is héer exprest:
At burials they might not come,
ne féed of rented beast.
The xlv. Chapiter.
ELect apart foure portions were
within the holy land:
For Préestꝭ, for Prince, for Cittie and Churche,
eche lot set out with wand.
A lesson giuen to Magistrates
for measure and for weight:
Oblations eke how them to make,
is héer set out ful streight.
The xlvi. Chapiter.
FOr sacrifice on Saboth dayes,
the order héer they knowe:
In temple where the folke came in,
ther out they might not go.
The Prince in middle of them all,
must be when God they serue:
[Page]Til he go out a charge they haue,
from him they may not swarue.
The xlvii. Chapiter.
GOd dooth him shew the plesāt stremes
that from the gates should run:
What plentie of fishe should therin be,
for fisher men to come.
On sides wherof what trées should grow
that monthly frute should bear:
The borders of the holy land,
it is appointed there.
The xlviii. Chapiter.
HEer now by lot is pointed out,
eche tribe how he should lie:
The préestꝭ and Leuites haue their parts
the holy temple by.
Whose portion eke is pointed out,
and all the Citties shore:
The Prince again his part is tolde,
this Prophet speakes no more.
FINIS.
¶Thus haue you heard this Prophet speak,
vnto the people tho:
[Page]That captiues were in Caldey land,
and vnto sundry mo.
Now commeth in that man of wit,
a Seer you may say:
VVho tolde before of Monarchies,
their reign and their decay.
The Romaine power he telleth of,
of Turk and Antechriste:
Of golden dayes that should be seen,
in regiment of Christe.
His name to tel is Daniel,
that deemed doughtie dreames:
VVho stil did win of enemies,
for all their craftie meanes.