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The Prophecy of Ieremy. |
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The Prophecy of Ieremy.
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 outwhat God for them had wrought:
How they again and eke their preests,
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 seeing 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 feel and taste.
The vi. Chapiter.
From far their foes should cōe & flock,their Cittie to beset:
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 powershould make among the Iewes:
And how if that they did repent,
they should haue better newes.
The Prophets false hee dooth rebuke,
for vttering of lies:
Lamenting muche their sorrowe sharp
that should against them rise.
The ix. Chapiter.
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 goldeof wood and siluer eke:
Be far from Gods when they can not
once go ne stand, or speak.
Their pastours were but beastes eche one
their flocks did wander wide:
In man there is no good at all,
for succour yet shee cride.
The xi. Chapiter.
Look wel they ought to keep the law,for els hee 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 seek,
for them he might not pray.
The xii. Chapiter.
Muche muse he dooth at wickeds welthyet God remayneth iust:
The Iewes forsaken of the Lord,
in him they did not trust.
The shepheards did the sheep 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 faland 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:
suche peace by lies they wan.
The xv. Chapiter.
Past help they were tho Moyses shouldand 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 thee 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 curstfor putting trust in man:
Whose hart ful wicked is and il,
God onely searche it can.
the Saboth day they brake:
Whiche if in time they mended not,
their fier should not slake.
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 speed:
And he to God his prayers made,
to plague them and their seed.
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 preachthe stroke him and thereto:
he taught as wunt to doo.
It greeu'd him muche yt 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 heare
their pride should come ful lowe.
The xxiii. Chapiter.
suche pastours as doo feed
Them selues: and let the flock alone,
God wil them pay in deed.
And pastours pure he wil prouide,
wherof one shall be cheef:
From Dauids house as King to guide,
by him to haue releef.
The xxiiii. Chapiter.
Declare God dooth by baskets twaine,with Figs bothe good and bad:
What should become vpon the flock,
as he decreed had.
Whiche was that some should haue return
and liue in rest and peace:
The King should not with many mo,
whose hartes he could not pearce.
The xxv. Chapiter.
Exiled men in Babilon,the Iewes for sin should bee:
Ful seuentie yeeres the Prophet saith,
in their captiuitie.
At which yeeres 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 sendbothe 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 falsedid prophecy a lie:
And Ieremy did him reprooue
afore great company.
Also a freshe he prophecied,
because his yoke was burst:
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 yeeres 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 heer he telth to come.when home they should return:
All ioy shall come and plesantnes,
to suche as once did mourn.
also he plight to make:
That he would be their God in deed,
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 feeld 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 desartes.
And Christe to reign in Dauids throne,
for euer in their hartes.
The xxxiiii. Chapiter.
Of Zedechiah who was King,of Iuda: what should come:
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 preceptes
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 yt 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.
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 hada choise at wil to chuse.
Babel to see, 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 wasof 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 camehis 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:
their God would it them send.
The xliii. Chapiter.
Contrary to their former graunt,to Egipt needs they would:
The Prophet checkt, and Baruch eke,
who needs 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 harts
did tel what they did deem:
We neuer throue sins that we left,
to serue the heauenly Queen.
The xlv. Chapiter.
Euilly appaid was Baruch then,he thought his life but lost:
His sorrowes did increase in him
seeing the Iewes so tost.
and set his hart at stay:
For God (he said) hath giuen to thee,
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 seed,
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 telleth to the Moabites,their ruine and decay:
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.
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.
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.
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