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3. THE THIRD PART OF THE HISTORIE OF OVR LORD AND SAVIOVR IESVS CHRIST,

containing those things which he did the second yeare after his Baptisme, which was the xxxj. yeare of his age, according to the foure Euangelistes, the yeare after the creation of the world. 4172. beginning at the Sermon, which Christ made in the mount. Codomannvs.

Christ did prepare all his in mind,
To seeke for treasure vp on hye,
In heau'n; where as the godly find,
All happinesse eternally,
It is not health, wealth, shape, or age,
That brings men to the heau'nly stage.

Therefore cleane contrary to those,
That taught true happinesse to be
In earthly things, this heau'nly rose,
A sweeter sent hath giuen thee,
To trace the tract that leadeth sure,
Where happinesse doth still endure.

When Christ the multitude did see,
A mountaine he went vp into:

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When he was set, where he would be,
To his Disciples he spake tho,
1 The poore in spirite blessed are,
A kingdome God did them prepare.

2 Blessed are they that mourne for good,
For they shall surely comfort haue,
Such to their power ill withstood,
And for amendment dayly craue.
3 Blessed are they that meeke are found,
The earth they shall inherite round.

4 Blessed are they which suffer thirst,
And hunger after righteousnesse:
For they (said Christ) shall as the first,
Be filled with all happinesse.
5 The mercifull are blessed all,
They shall haue mercy when they call.

6 Blessed are all the pure in heart,
They shall see God vndoubtedly.
7 Peace makers they play such a part,
As pleaseth God assuredly:
Blessed are they therefore said he,
Gods children they shall called be.

8 Blessed are they, which patiently
Do suffer persecution
For righteousnesse, they verely
Shall after their affliction,
Gods kingdome in heauen possesse,
For so he will their griefes redresse.

9 When men reuile you most of all,
And persecute you for my sake,
And falsly speaking ill withall,
If patiently you do it take,

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You shall therefore find happinesse,
The salue to ease your heauinesse.

Reioyse also, I say, be glad,
When they haue done you greatest wrong,
You haue no cause for to be sad,
In heau'n shall you the Saints among
Rewarded be, as were before,
The Prophets, whom they grieued sore.

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Christ came to fulfill the law.

I am not come for to destroy
The law or Prophets, but fulfill,
I take in nothing so much ioy,

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As to obey my fathers will,
Till heau'n and earth do all decay,
The law shall not be done away.

The least commandement exprest
Who breakes, and teacheth other so,
In heau'n he shall be counted least:
The contrarie who so will do,
Obseruing them, and teach the same,
In heau'n he st[illeg.] receiue a name.

I say, except your righteousnesse,
Exceede the rigeteousnesse of these,
You shall be voyde of happinesse,
And heau'n (as they) for euer leese;
The Pharisies are verely,
Full fraught with all hypocrisie.

Christ interpreteth certaine Commandements or Lawes: and first thou shalt not kill, correcting the false interpretations of the Scribes and Pharisies.

Here Christ correcteth very well,
The doctrine of the Pharisie,
Ye haue ofttimes (said he) heard tell,
How they expounded sensuallie
These wordes, which haue bene said of old,
To kill another be not bold.

Who so (say they) doth kill, shall be
By iudgement therefore punished,
But marke what I say vnto thee,
Without cause who so is moued
(Against his brother) angerly,
Is subiect to iudgement thereby,

Who Racha saith his brother to,
By counsell shall be punished,

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Take heede therefore before ye do,
Ye may hereby be terrified,
Who so his brother foole will call,
In daunger of hell fire doth fall.

With hand, with hart, and so in word,
We often spill our neighbours life,
The hand doth vse to weild a sword,
The heart deuiseth bate and strife,
And wordes when one disdainful,
Reuileth as an enemy.

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Of Othes.

Againe of old they did forbid,
Forswearing, for the same is ill,
Of othes each man his house should rid,
So to obay Iehouahs will.
Othes rightly made do not delay,

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For to performe the same alway.

But otherwise sweare not at all,
No not by heau'n the throne of God,
Nor by the earth, for so ye fall
In danger to deserue his rod.
Nor by Ierusalem, for this,
The Citie of the king it is.

Nor by thine head, thou canst not make,
One haire thereof as blacke or white,
Most vaine are they that othes do take,
And vaine those that in othes delight,
Let ye and nay declare your will,
What so is more doth come of ill.

Loue thine enemie.

Loue thou (say they) thy neighbour well,
Thine enemy thy selfe may hate,
Of vertues, loue, doth all excell,
What so the Pharisies do prate,
Your enemies loue not the worse,

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And blesse you them that do you curse.

Do good to them that do you hate,
Pray for them that you persecute:
They sure shall haue a blessed state,
My fathers will that execute:
He makes his sunne and rayne to fall,
On good and bad; alike to all.

If man do loue, or frendly be
To him, that doth to him the same,
What thankes for that deserueth he?
Each sinner must do this for shame.
Haue you therefore regard of this,
Be perfit as your father is.

Prayer.

Pray not as hypocrites do pray,
All open to be seene of men;
But when thy prayers thou will say,
Shut close in chamber be thou then:
Pray to thy father secretly,
He will reward thee openly.

Much babling see thou do not vse,
Nor repetitions, they are vaine,
The heathen hope for like abuse,
Some great reward thereby to gaine.
Be not like them, for God in deed,

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Before ye aske, doth know your need.

Fast.

Moreouer when that ye do fast,
Looke not sowre, as the hypocrite,
That time as vayne, they vainly wast,
For God therein hath no delite,

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Their faces they disfigure to,
That men may see what then they do.

When thou doest fast, annoint thy head,
And let thy face then washed be:
Seeme not to men as one halfe dead,
Let God thy deedes in secret see.
Thy heau'nly father, both regards
Thy fast, and theirs, haue their rewards.

The carefull seeking of worldly things forbidden.

On earth hoord vp no treasure so,
Where moath and canker eate apace:
Lest with them you do heape on woe.
There theeues (men voyde of better grace)
Breake vp, thus they for riches deale,
When digging through, mēs wealth they steale.

But lay your treasures vp aboue,
In heau'n; where none of these are found:
You on your treasures set your loue,
Lay not your loue so on this ground.
But lay it where is no decay:
Earth will corrupt and fade away.

The eye, doth giue the body light,
And reason rules the inner man:
If cleare and sound remaine the sight,
No darknesse hurt that body can.
If thine eye wicked be, then marke,
Sure all thy body shall be darke.

Two masters, well, no man can serue:
For truly he the one will hate,
And for the other loue reserue:
This of mans life is right the state.
God and your riches, disagree:

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They may not both, then serued be.

Set not your care on meate and drinke,
Nor yet on your apparell so:
You with your selues must alwayes thinke,
That howsoeuer here ye go,
He that gaue life and body, will
Prouide you meate and clothing still.

The fowles of heau'n, ye may behold,
To sow or reape they haue no care:
They neither want, nor suffer cold,
Much better farre then them ye are.
Your heau'nly father feedeth these:
And so will you, if you him please.

Which of you can by taking care,
One cubite ad vnto his length?
Clothing you know what things they are,
Who giueth them and giueth strength.
Learne of the lyllies how they grow,
To spinne or carde they do not know.

Yet Salomon, to you I say,
Was not aray'd like one of thease.
The grasse if God do so aray,
Can he not cloth you if he please?
The faithfull neuer fayle to speed:
God more regards you then a weed.

For meate, for drinke, for cloth alway,
Take ye no thought at all therefore:
The Gentiles seeke these day by day,
Your heau'nly father euermore
Will all your wants relieue in deed:
He knoweth well what things ye need.

Gods kingdome, if ye do seeke first,

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You can not wish but you shall haue.
If for his righteousnesse ye thirst,
He will giue you, the things you craue.
Care not then for to morow day,
The griefe with it shall passe away.

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The house on the rocke or sand, the conclusion of this Sermon.

All that I haue declared now,
Who so doth heare with good intent:

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Is like to one that did bestow
His money well, that he had spent,
To build a house for him and his,
Where rayne and wind hurt not ywis.

But who so heareth these my words,
And doth them not, is like a man,
That charges great in deed affoords:
To build a house where no man can,
Vpon the sandes, where sea and wind,
Do spoyle and swallow all they find.

When Iesus, thus had finished
This Sermon which he there did preach,
The people were astonished,
To heare what doctrine Christ did teach.
He taught as with authoritie,
Vnlike the Scribe or Pharisie.

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Christ cast out a deuill at Capernaum, and diliuered the possessed from that infirmitie.

And so vpon the Sabboth day,
Into the Synagogue he went:
Those workes to do without delay,
For which he to the world was sent;
The people did vpon him gaze,
His doctrine did them so amaze.

He taught as with authoritie,
Not as the Scribes were wont to do.
Or the dissembling Pharisie,
To whom Christ oft pronounced woe.
But as Gods onely sonne in deed:
Sent man to saue, as God decreed.

And in the Synagogue there was,
A man possessed, euen then:
Whoso cure Christ Iesus brought to passe,
Yea in the sight of all those men.
His doctrine he confirmed still:

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With wonders, which he wrought at will.

Sathan that wicked spirite he,
Began within the man to cry;
Oh what haue we to do with thee?
I know thou art assuredly
The holy one of God, his ioy:
Art thou come vs for to destroy?

Iesus rebuked him, and said,
Come out of him and hold thy peace.
Sathan of Christ was all affrayd,
Yet loath the man for to release.
But forced thence, the deuill did fly,
Crying; and tare him cruelly,

When he came out, the standers by,
Were much amazed at the sight:
Asking each other busily,
How they supposed that this might
Be done of him? what thing is this?
What thinke you that this doctrine is?

The spirites with authoritie,
He doth commaund; and they obay.
His fame was spread immediatly,
Throughout that region eu'ry way.
All Galilie did heare his fame:
And countreys bord'ring on the same.

Christ raised Peters mother in law.

Christ from the Synagogue did go,
To Symons house as doth appeare:
With Andrew, Iames, and Iohn also;
His Godhead he declared there.
Men tasted still in eu'ry place,
In ample measure of his grace.

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For when to Peters house he came,
Peters wife mother sicke there lay:
A feauer vexed sore the dame,
Which Christ rebuking, went away.
By touch of hand Christ helped her,
And she to them did minister.

Iesus passed thence to preach to other Cities.

So he that night went to take rest,
But rose againe by breake of day:
For to go thence he thought it best,
Into a desert place away.
Christ then they sought, and found, kept so
As men loath he should from them go.

But Christ said vnto them, I must
To others preach assuredly
The kingdome of God, this my trust
I will discharge most faithfully.
And so he preaching dayly went
Through Galilie, as he was sent.

It came to passe as Iesus taught,
The people pressed on to heare:
Some faithfull, some with faults full fraught,
Both good and bad to him drew neare.
The word of God Christ did not let,

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To preach then by Genezaret.

And seeing shippes by the lake side,
Although the Fishermen were gone
To wash their nets then in the tide:
Yet Christ went boldly into one.
The same was Symons ship in deed,
To aske him leaue he had no neede.

Yet Christ required him that he,
Would thrust a little from the land;
That of the preasse he might be free,
He left them on the banke to stand:
And sitting downe he taught them there,
That to his doctrine did giue care.

After Christ had preached out of the ship, at the lake of Genezareth, he miraculouslie tooke a great multitude of fishes.

When Christ left speaking, then he said
To Symon; launch the deepe into:
Cast out your nets, be not dismaid,
Make heare a draught before ye go.
Trauailde we haue maister in deed,
All night, and yet we could not speed.

Neuerthelesse, at thy commaund,
I will let downe the net againe:
Oh maister, thou shalt vnderstand,
That I let not for any paine.
Which done, of fishes they did take
So many, that their nets they brake.

Then beckned they for helpe vnto
Their partners, in the other boate:
To come, for they had much adoe,

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To saue what they as then had got.
The ships they filled when they came:
They both almost sunke with the same.

When Symon saw it, all affraid
At Iesus knees downe flat he fell:
Go from me Lord, withall he said,
I am a sinner, I know well.
For he and they astonied were,
That draught had put them in such feare.

And so was Iames and Iohn also
Amazed, wondring all at this:
And Iesus said to Symon tho,
Thou shalt henceforth catch men iwis.
When they the ships had brought to land,
They followed Iesus out of hand.

Christs aunswer to one of his disciples that would go burie his Father.

Then a disciple leaue did pray,

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He might go first, and in his graue
(As custome was) his father lay,
Him so to do Christ would not haue;
Thine office and thy call see thou,
(Not worldly workes) go follow now.

The greater worke thou maist not leaue,
To take the lesser worke in hand:
They that do so themselues deceiue,
Thy charge learne thou to vnderstand;
And let the dead therefore, said he,
Their dead burie, and follow me.

Christ passing ouer into the countrey of the Gergesens, met two men there possessed with deuils: which he healed, and gaue the deuils leaue to go into the heard of swine. It is supposed of some, that this heard contained 2000. swine, for they were many.

When to the other side they came,
There two possessed met them then,

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Out of the graues: for in the same,
Then commonly remain'd those men.
Their fiercenesse so did men affray,
That no man might go by that way.

And yet behold immediatly,
Assoone as Iesus Christ they sawe
They all began on him to crie;
(Sathan of him did stand in awe)
Oh Iesus (said they) what haue we,
Thou Sonne of God to do with thee?

Before the time what art thou come,
To torment vs, hither this way?
This time supposed is of some,
That Satan meant the iudgement day.
A heard of Swine fed certainly
Farre off from where the men did lie.

The deuils beseeching Christ did say,
If thou do cast vs out giue leaue,
That go into those swine we may.
Christ Iesus did their sute receiue:
He bid them go, and so they went
Into the Swine as they were sent.

And the whole heard with violence,
Into the sea ranne from the hill:
The heardmen also fled from thence,
Their losse they tooke it verie ill.
They of the swine they had before,
Then of their health regarded more.

These newes, being brought the cittie to,
The cittizens came out apace:
They for their swine made much adoe,
Because they had no better grace.

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They crau'd that Christ would leaue with speed
Their coasts: which he did then in deed.

Sending the man late cur'de away,
Which would so faine with him haue gone:
But Christ gaue charge without delay,
He should go shew what God had done,
Among his friends, who with good will,
Went backe and did his charge fulfill.

Christ also healed a leaper there.

Another leaper then againe,
Christ healed of his leprosie:
Iesus did no disease disdaine,
He helped all indifferently.
This leaper fell downe on his face:
Calling on Christ for helpe and grace.

So Iesus stretching forth his hand,
Did touch him: saying, so I will,

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Be cleane: and straight at his command,
The man was healed of his ill.
And Christ commaunded him to say
Nothing of this: but go his way.

Yet go (said he) the priest vnto,
And shew thy selfe: for so I will.
The lawe this likewise bids thee doe,
And it of force thou must fulfill.
The priest must iudge (said Christ) of thee:
If wholy cleansed that thou be.

The more that Christ himselfe kept close,
The more hereby encreasd his fame:
The bruit by this begun, so rose,
That more and more was spred his name;
So that the sicke from place to place,
Came and receiued of his grace.

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Christ gaue sight to the blind.

When Iesus did from him depart,

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Two blind men meeting him did crie,
Thou sonne of Dauid ease our smart.
Beleeue ye then said Christ, that I
Can helpe? yes Lord said they: then he
Did touch their eyes, and made them see.

At the poole of Bethesda, Christ healed a man that had bene diseased 38. yeares, and being accused defended his fact.

After all this, against the feast
Of Passeouer, which then was nie,
Christ Iesus that tooke little rest,
Vnto Ierusalem did hie.
That holy Sabaoth of the Lord,
The Iewes obseru'd with one accord.

Christ at Ierusalem then found
A multitude of sicke and lame:
About Bethesda lying round,
Abiding till the Angell came.

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When as the Angell stird the poole,
The water still made one man whole.

Christ by that poole a man did see,
That had lyen sicke there very long:
Wilt thou be whole oh man, said he?
Sir I want helpe among this throng.
Rise thou said Christ, thy bed vp take:
For perfect whole I do thee make.

Christ heal'd him on the Sabboth day;
Whereat the Iewes were grieued sore:
And sought our Sauiour Christ to slay,
Rewarded thus he was therefore.
The Iewes accusing Christ, do moue
Him iustly them for to reproue.

To whom the father witnessed,
And Iohn did testifie the same:
The Scriptures also verified,
As did his works so full of fame,
That he the sonne of God should be:
The stubburne Iewes him would not see.

Christ defended his Disciples accused for plucking eares of corne on the Sabboth.

Three feasts the Iewes kept yeare by yeare,
And chiefest Sabboth dayes did call:
Of the same feasts it doth appeare,
The Passeouer was first of all:
This they the feast of sweet bread name,
On this day they from Egypt came.

The next was that whereon God gaue,
The law by Moses vnto men:
That day in reuerence we haue,
The holy Ghost was giuen then:

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This some the feast of weekes do say,
Some Pentecost, some Whitsonday.

The feast of Tabernacles last
Came of these three in order there:
Those feasts were neuer fully past,
Till all their dayes accomplisht were.
The first and last day of each feast,
Were counted chiefe of all the rest.

The seu'nth day also through the yeare,
Is was and so shall be for aye,
With them and Christians eu'ry where,
In solemne wise a Sabboth day,
Though theirs and ours do disagree;
One day with them obserue not we.

Christ passed thorough a corne field,
Vpon the second Sabboth day,
This doth to many matter yeeld,
To reason when he went that way.
Some say it was in Easter feast,
The last and chiefe day of the rest.

That day the first, doth answer well,
And so the second Sabboth day
Men might it call; it did excell,
The middle dayes as all men say.
And there withall time of the yeare,
This reason good makes to appeare.

Some thinke it was on Whitsonday,
Because this Sabboth second was,
As they suppose, and that no way,
The first did the same Sabboth passe.
These reasons both, may please all such,
As selfe-will leades not ouermuch.

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That day a Sabboth day was sure,
When the Disciples plucked corne:
Which thing the Iewes could not indure,
They did the act most vilely scorne.
Not knowing him that went that way,
To be Lord of the Sabboth day.

The cause they did not waigh withall,
That hunger then did cause the same:
The Pharisies on Christ did call,
And his Disciples fowlie blame.
They did prefer tradition,
Before their owne saluation.

But Christ said vnto them againe,
What Dauid did who hath not read?
Now his example doth remaine,
Though Dauid lye a good while dead.
These do as he did them before,
When he and his did hunger sore.

He had the meate that was forbid:
These breake you thinke the Sabboth day:
They do as he and his then did,
Find fault with him yet no man may.
The Priests do in the Temple so
The Sabboth breake, yet free they go.

One greater then the Temple is,
And here he standeth verely:
Mercy will I, not sacrifice;
Learne what this meaneth faithfully.
Then will you not condemne this day,
These innocents that hurt no way.

The sonne of man is Lord likewise,
Yea euen of the Sabboth day:

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Shall I then these so much despise,
Or suffer them for foode decay?
Though fault with them you find so soone:
The law allowes what they haue done.

The day is made all men to serue,
And no man made to serue that day:
Should not man then his life preserue,
Vpon the Sabboth, if he may?
The law that bindeth man so fast,
To finish I am come at last.

Christ healed one in the Synagogue on the Sabboth day, that had a withered hand, and answered his accusers.

Now Christ disposed to beat downe,
Their grieuous superstition,
Went shortly after to their towne,
To reason of this question.
And to the Synagogue he went,
The fittest place for his intent.

For there was alwayes most resort,
Which was our Sauiours Christs desire:
That many men might haue comfort,
All his affection was on fire.
This his deuise to further then,
Fell out a worke among those men.

A man there with a withered hand,
Was present in that very place:
They said giue vs to vnderstand,
If law allow men so much grace,
As to be cured on this day?
Christ to accuse they sought a way.

Christ answered to them againe,
What man shall haue a sillie sheepe,

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Fall in a pit, and lye in payne:
If it were worst of all he keepe,
And will not on the Sabboth day:
Haue care to fetch it thence away?

How much more may a man be then,
Preferd before a sheepe I pray?
There is no law forbiddeth men,
To do good on a Sabboth day.
Stretch forth said Christ, thy withered hand:
This heard they all that there did stand.

It was restored to him so,
And all the people saw the same:
It fild the Pharisies with woe,
Which sought for to eclipse his fame.
And they went out with litle ioy,
Deuising Christ for to destroy.

For they had missed their intent,
Which made them rage so much the more:
To trappe him in his words they meant,
Yet fayl'd as they had done before.
His worthy works they did despise:
And went his death for to deuise.

But he that knew their meaning well,
Departed thence, and went away:
He needed not that man should tell,
That they sought how they might him slay.
His fathers will he did respect:
And he his works did well effect.

Great multitudes him followed thence,
And he likewise them healed all:
Each one that came in his presence,
And vnto him for helpe did call.

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Yet charged them they should not tell,
Or make him knowne, if they did well.

Esayas Prophecie tooke place;
My seruant whom I chose ywis,
And my beloued full of grace,
In whom my soule delights, is this.
My spirite put on him I will:
And he shall iudge the Gentiles still.

He shall not striue in word or deed,
None in the street shall heare his voyce:
He shall not breake a bruised reed,
The Gentiles shall in him reioyce.
Yea smoaking flaxe quench shall not he:
Till he both iudge and victor be.

Christ then had twise refelled such
Opinions fond, as they did hold:
At first they had presumed much,
And then againe did seeme as bold.
The Sabboth lets no man at need,
His wants supply, or do good deed.

Iesus seeing the multitude dispersed as sheepe hauing no shepheard, tooke compassion on them.

And Iesus Christ did not ceasse then,
But went about to eu'ry place,
In townes and Cities among men,
To preach, and he was full of grace.
He healed each disease they had:
All men of him were very glad.

But when he saw the multitude,
He tooke on them compassion:
The people seemed very rude,
And wanting consolation.

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For all abroad they scattered were,
As sheepe that had no shepheard there.

Christ called his xij. Apostles, and sent them forth to preach, giuing them power to worke miracles and heale diseases.

Then his Disciples Christ did call,
Power to them he gaue and grace,
That vncleane spirites they should all,
Cast out of men, in eu'ry place.
As free you haue, so likewise deale:
All sicke-men freely see you heale.

Twelue, Iesus did send forth to preach,
And did command them saying so:
Among the Gentiles them to teach,
Or to Samaria do not go.
To the lost sheepe of Israell
Go first of all these newes to tell.

Say ye, and teach that now at hand
The kingdome of our God doth come,
Saluation throughout the land,
Is surely sent to all and some.
To all that will beleeue, say ye,
That they the same shall shortly see.

Heale ye the sicke, the leapers clense,
Raise vp the dead, the deuils out cast,

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And see when ye depart from hence,
Ye freely giue from first to last.
And in your iourney take no care:
What weeds ye weare, or how ye fare.

What house or Citie ye come to,
Among the worthy there remaine,
Till you from thence haue cause to go,
Let them with you in peace retaine.
Such as do not deserue this grace,
Shake of their dust in the same place.

That dust shall witnesse against those,
That you desired not their wealth:
And earthly treasure, that they chose
Before this proffred sauing health.
They in the iudgement sure shall gaine,
Of Sodome and Gomorh the paine.

As sheepe, I send you simple men,
In midst of worldly wolues to go:
Be ye as wise as Serpents then,
And innocent as doues also.
To kings and counsels for my sake,
When you are brought, no thought then take.

For what ye speake, it is not ye:
When torments for you do remaine,
The holy Ghost in you shall be,
To guide your speach, and ease your paine.
The father shall the sonne said he,
And friend his friend betray for me.

Ye shall be hated for my name,
But he that dureth to the end,
Shall saued be, and voyde of blame.
From persecution you defend,

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From Citie to another go:
If you haue need for to do so.

For the Disciple is not sure,
Nor the seruant his Lord aboue:
Like death if you as I endure,
A signe it is of perfect loue.
If Beelzebub they do call me:
Is it strange then you so should be?

Nothing is hid, but that shall I
Make manifest, and what ye heare
In secret, preach it openly.
Of men ye need not stand in feare;
Feare him that soule and body may
Destroy in hell, feare him I say.

If that a sparow shall not fall,
Nor any haire of yours decay,
But that your father cares for all,
And ouer all doth beare a sway:
Why should you care or be afrayd?
You shall be sure to haue his ayde.

Who so shall me on earth confesse,
Or me deny before men here,
Shall haue the like and nothing lesse,
In heau'n, before my father there.
For my cause peace must needs decay,
And dearest friends their friends shall slay.

Who father, friend, his sonne or wife,
Doth loue more then he loueth me:
Who so my Crosse (to saue his life)
Doth not take vp, but seeks to flye.
The one vnworthy of me is:
The other shall not scape ywis.

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He that receiueth you, or me,
Receiueth him that vs hath sent:
A Prophet who receiueth, he
Reward shall haue to his content.
These litle ones who doth relieue:
God sure to him reward will giue.

Christes Sermon at the sending forth of his Apostles to preach.

When Iesus had then made an end,
Of giuing these commandements
To his, whom he then forth did send,
To teach the Iewes good documents:
The place he stood in was a plaine,
And with him many did remaine.

Yea multitudes of people were,
Out of all Iurie standing by:
From Tyre and Sydon they were there,
To heare his doctrine verely,
And at his hands to haue reliefe,
Each one as he was painde with griefe.

And they that with fowle spirits sore
Tormented were, Christ heal'd them all:
And still they sought him more and more,
(Which boldly durst not on him call)
To touch his vesture as he went:
For health thereby to them was sent.

Then Iesus lifted vp his eyes,
On his Disciples, saying this:
Ye poore are blessed euen thrise,
For yours Gods kingdome surely is.
Ye that now hunger blessed are,
You shall be sure of better fare.

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And ye that weepe, yet blessed are,
For ye shall likewise laugh againe:
When men hate you, take ye no care,
And when they do procure your paine.
Nor yet when they you separate,
Reuiling at your base estate.

If for the sonne of mans sake, they
Your names put out as euill men,
Reioyce ye greatly, God obay,
And be in heart glad of it then.
Behold in heau'n reward haue ye:
The Prophets were, as now ye be.

But woe to them that rich are here,
And do repose thereon their trust:
The day will come it shall appeare,
They dearly bought vile earth and dust.
In heau'n true treasure may be found:
Each thing corrupts that growes in ground.

Woe be to you that now are full,
For yee shall hunger after this:
If you were not exceeding dull,
For meate, ye would not morgage blisse,
Woe be to you that now laugh so,
For you shall waile and weepe for wo.

Woe be to you whom men do praise,
And speake well of, deseruing ill:
When yee haue spent out all your dayes,
You shall be wray what was your will.
False Prophets were by like deuise,
Among your elders had in price.

But vnto you which heare, I say,
Your enemies see that yee loue:

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To them that hate you, if ye may,
Shew how my doctrine doth you moue
To do them good, and blesse withall,
And pray for them, that wish your fall.

To him that smiteth thee also,
Vpon one cheeke, the other giue:
Who so thy cloake would take thee fro,
Giue him thy coate, and do not grieue
To purchase so a quiet life,
And stirre thou no debate or strife.

Giue eu'ry man that asketh thee:
And he that takes thy goods away
By force or fraude how so it be:
Aske thou them not againe I say.
But vnto other men so do,
As thou wouldst be of them done to.

If that ye loue, do good, or lend,
To them that do requite the same,
Each sinner so doth for his friend;
You should do more then such for shame.
Be mercifull to such as need:
For so your father is indeed.

Christ healed the Centurions seruant being absent: the Centurions faith.

After that Christ had finished
His Sermon, as you heard before:
From thence he likewise hastened;
For he desired more and more,
The worke he had in hand to end:
Which for our good did wholly tend.

As Capernaum he came to,
A Captaine there a Gentile borne,

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Made for his seruant much adoe,
That seemed then a man forlorne.
He su'd by meanes his health to haue:
Christ with a word his life did saue.

The Captaines great humility,
And faith, our Sauiour did commend:
In Israëll then certainly,
Like praise to none he did extend.
Of these said Christ shall many come
To heau'n: and haue the childrens roome.

Iohn Baptists message to Christ by two of his disciples.

Iohn Baptist was in prison cast,
Herodias had obtaind the same:
And his disciples came in hast,
And told him there of Iesus fame.
Yet he in prison as before,
Would winne to Christ disciples more.

For when his workes to him were told,
That his disciples might beleeue
In Iesus Christ: Iohn said; behold,
A message vnto you I giue,
(Iohn knew him well assuredly:
As he oft times did testifie.

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But that his might also perceiue,
That Christ the true Messiah was:
Of whom they should all grace receiue,
In whom they might all truth embrace.)
Go ye, and say, Iohn sent to thee,
To aske if thou be euen he?

They went, and both to Iesus came,
And said to him, our maister sent:
To know if thou be sure the same,
Or else another that is meant?
Men knew as then that Christ should come:
How, when, or where, that knew but some.

Christs testimonie of Iohn Baptist.

When they were gone, then Christ began
To speake vnto the company:
What went yee out to see? a man
Infected with inconstancie?
Iohn you in wildernesse did finde:

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Not as a reede, shakt with the winde.

What went ye then out for to see?
A man cloathed in soft raiment?
Such men in kings courts vse to be:
Iohn is with meaner weed content.
Iohns raiment showes him to be plaine:
He flattred not, he could not faine.

But what went yee out then to see?
A prophet? I say to you more.
Of whom is written, (this is he)
My messenger shall go before.
This is Elias, whom they say,
Should come for to prepare the way.

No greater among men did rise
Then Iohn the Baptist, verely,
Not any that you can deuice.
Yet this I say, assuredly
The least in heau'n goes him before:
And doth enioy Gods graces more.

Gods kingdome suffreth violence,
Since Iohns time to this very day:
The Gentiles with all diligence
Without the law, new cald, obay.
The lawe and Prophets haue their end:
For he is come whom yee attend.

He that hath eares to heare, may heare.
Marke what I say therefore, amend,
Sith that Elyas did appeare,
The law and Prophets made an end.
Yet you remaine both deafe and blind,
That may your true Messiah find.

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Christ vpbraideth the vnthankefull citties, wherein he had taught and done so many miracles, and yet they repented not.

Then Christ began for to vpbraid,
The citties that so oft had seene
His workes: and yet for all delaid
For to repent, as they had beene
Cleane void of sinne, or had no will,
To learne the good, and leaue the ill.

Chorazin wo be vnto thee,
And to Bethsayda woe likewise:
The great works that were done by me
In you, yee greatly did despise.
If they in Tyrus had bene done,
It had repented long agone.

If Tyre and Sidon had, I say,
Both seene, and heard what ye did heare:
Saceloth and ashes eu'ry day

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Had beene their weed; ye buy it deare,
For at the iudgement then to thee,
To them more easie shall it be.

Thou Capernaum lift so hie,
Yea raised vp to heau'n aboue,
To hell thou shalt be brought to lye,
Because my works thee neuer moue.
If they in Sodome had bene wrought,
It had not yet bene brought to nought.

For Sodome it shall easier be,
Oh Capernaum be thou sure,
At the last iudgement, then for thee,
Thy punishment for to endure.
Tyre, Sydon, and Sodom shall haue
More ease then these, though then they craue.

Christ his gratulation for the successe of the Gospell by his Apostles.

Then Iesus said, I giue to thee
(Oh mightie Lord and Father deare)
Most hartie thanks, thou hearest me,
And to my call thou giuest eare.
These things thou hidest from the wise,
Their worldly wit thou doest despise.

Thy secrets vnto babes withall,
And humble men, thou doest declare:
These do on thee for mercy call,
These, these, oh God thy chosen are.
This thy good pleasure was, and is:
Oh Father none can alter this.

All things to me now giuen are
Of my father, the sonne and he,
No mortall man can well declare

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One of them both, except he be
Taught by the sonne, and so he may
Learne both to know, this onely way.

Christ dined in the house of Symon the Pharisie, was annointed of a sinfull woman, and being accused, defended himself, and her fact.

Then of the Pharisies came one,
Which bid Christ to his house to meate:
And Iesus went with him anone,
And at the table sate to eate.
While he was there, came by and by,
A sinfull woman verely;

And when she knew he was set downe,
At table with the companie:
(Because she dwelled in that towne,
No man mislikt her modestie:)
With boxe in hand of ointment sweet,
She came and fell at Iesus feete.

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To shew withall her miserie,
She stood Christ Iesus backe behind:
And there shed teares abundantly,
The tokens of a wofull mind.
With teares his feete she washed faire,
And then did wipe them with her haire.

And oftentimes she kist his feete,
That so she washed with such care:
Her boxe of ointment very sweet,
To spend on them she did not spare.
Her sinnes so great, she did beleeue,
That Christ would them to her forgiue.

And Symon seeing what was donne,
By her since she his house came to:
This to conceiue, he then begonne,
If this man were a Prophet lo,
He would know that this woman is
A sinner, that his feete doth kisse.

Then Iesus vnto Symon sayd,
Somwhat I haue to say to thee.
No longer let it be delayd,
Oh master, this againe said he.
Though Christ perceiued Symon well,
Yet knew not he what Christ would tell.

There was a certaine lender had,
Two debters, and their state was such,
That neither of them could be glad,
Their debt to either was so much.
The one fiue hundred pence, I know,
The other fiftie pence did owe.

When neither knew what shift to make,
For they had not wherewith to pay,

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The lender did then pitie take,
Forgaue them, and sent both away.
Oh Symon shew me if thou can,
Which of them will loue most this man?

He answered, and said againe,
He vnto whom he most forgaue:
For he was rid of greatest paine,
And had most need of both to craue.
Then Iesus said, thou iudgest right:
Behold this woman in thy sight.

Into thy house when first I came,
Thou gau'st my feete no water tho:
Yet she with teares hath washt the same,
And wipt them with her haire also.
No kisse of thee I had, I say,
She kissed hath my feete this day.

Thou diddest not mine head annoint,
But she annointed hath my feete:
(Christ reasoned from point to point,
Of her and of her odours sweet:)
Wherefore her sinnes, I say to thee,
(Though many) all forgiuen be.

Whom much or litle men forgiue,
Like measure they do yeeld of loue:
It will no good man therefore grieue,
That men his mercy so should moue.
And to the woman, then sayd he,
Thy sinnes they are forgiuen thee.

But they that sate with him at meate,
Began within themselues to say,
How can this man that here doth eate,
Forgiue sinnes? this God onely may,

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Christ said to her, from labour cease:
Thy faith hath sau'd thee, go in peace.

The women that Christ had deliuered from euill spirites and healed of sundry infirmities, followed him as he went from place to place to preach the Gospell, and ministred vnto him of their substance.

And afterward, it came to passe,
That Christ from towne to towne would go,
Preaching, and publishing apace,
The kingdome then of God also.
The twelue Apostles with him were,
And certaine women eu'ry where.

Some of them Christ had helpt before,
And rid of their infirmities:
He cured with his word their sore,
And healed all their maladies.
Yea deu'ls he out of many sent:
Seuen out of Magdalen there went.

Ioanna, also Chuzas wife,
King Herods steward then was there,
A woman of a godly life,
And one that stood of God in feare.
Susanna, and a number mo,
From place to place with Christ did go.

They for their health receiu'd, restore
To Christ all kind of thankfulnesse:
To him and his they of their store
Did minister with ioyfulnesse.
Those women all with full intent,
To heare and learne Gods word were bent.

And when into a house they came,
The multitude met so againe:

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(So farre abroad was spread his fame,)
He could no space alone remaine.
Both he and his, though they had meate,
Had then no time the same to eate.

Then they brought vnto Iesus one
Possessed with a deuill, I find,
And him for helpe they call vpon,
The man withall was dumbe and blind.
These three impediments had he:
Yet with his word Christ made him free.

The multitude amazed were,
And praysed God with hart and voyce:
The sonne (said they) of Dauid here,
Doth geue vs cause for to reioyce:
And now we all assured be,
This Christ the Lord is euen he.

But the hard hearted Pharisies,
When they heard this, began to say:
He fils you full of phantasies,
For Beelzebub this part doth play;
Without his helpe he neuer can
Cast out the deu'll out of a man.

A kingdome or a Citie deuided within it selfe cannot endure.

But Iesus knew their thoughts before,
And therefore vnto them did say:
What kingdome warreth very sore
Within it selfe, without decay?
What Citie or what house may stand,
Deuided so, in any land?

If Sathan cast out Sathan sure,
Or I by Beelzebub do so,

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His kingdome cannot long endure:
One thing I aske you and no mo;
By whom do your sonnes cast them out?
They shall you iudge in this no doubt.

If I through God cast out the same,
Then is his kingdome come this day:
If one man to a strong man came,
To spoile his house, and runne away,
Can he his purpose bring to passe,
Ere he be bound that owner was?

But I by force gaue him the foyle,
Whose helpe you say, I daily vse:
The more for you that I do toyle,
The more you still do me abuse.
He that on my side is not, he
Against me fully sure must be.

Blasphemie.

Each sinne, and so each blasphemy,
Shall be forgiuen men, I say,
If they repent it hartely,
And for remission do pray;
Except against the holy Ghost,
Of all, this sinne offendeth most.

The sinne against the sonne of man,
Which oftentimes doth hap and chance:
Both francke and free remit I can,
For it may come of ignorance.
The works Gods spirit works are such,
That they cannot be hidden much.

Take heed ye do not then offend,
Or sinne against the holy Ghost:
God will not sure world without end,

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Forgiue that sinne, he hates it most.
The tree and fruit make good I say,
Or make both fit to cast away.

As by the fruit we know the tree,
So by your wordes, ye knowen are:
Oh vipers, you that euill be,
Your speaches do your workes declare.
The hart it storeth good or ill,
Whereof the mouth doth sauour still.

Both good men and the euill show,
What treasure they haue hid in hart:
At the last iudgement you shall know,
How well or ill you plaide your part.
Vaine talke who so doth here affoord,
Shall answer for each idle word.

Christ denied the Iewes any signe, sauing onely the signe of Ionas.

The Scribes and Pharisies withall,
Came tempting Christ, and sought a signe,
As if on sight thereof they all,
From former faults would then decline.
But Christ that knew the inward mind,
With words they could not so make blind.

Christ answered, and said againe,
Thou wicked generation,
Adulterous, and very vaine,
Though signes thou doest depend vpon,
No signe shall geuen be to thee,
But that of Ionas thou shalt see.

As three dayes and three nights he was,
Within the whale all couered:
So shortly it will come to passe,

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I shall in earth be buried.
Three dayes and three nights verely,
In graue the sonne of man shall lye.

Christ prnounced an heauie sentence against such as reuolt from the truth receiued.

They which are once deliuered
From vncleane spirits, free and well:
Are after iustly punished,
If in them they againe do dwell.
Their last end sure farre worse shalbe,
Then was the first, take this of me.

The vncleane spirit places dry,
Doth walke throughout seeking a rest:
Where faith, where hope, where charitie,
Is setled sure within mans brest,
It is so dried with Gods grace,
That deuils haue there no resting place.

Then he returneth home againe,
Into the house from whence he went:

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(For all this while he walkt in vaine,
And missed still of his intent)
This house he findeth swept within,
Cleane voide of vertue, deckt with sinne.

Then taketh he seauen spirits more,
As ill as he in euery thing:
And dwels where he did dwell before,
His end is worse then beginning.
So shall it with this people be,
They mend not for all that they see.

This spirit is the deuill indeed,
His house is man where he doth dwell,
The drie place where he cannot speed,
Mans heart it is, heat by God well
With godly zeale, and hate of sinne;
He rests not there though he come in.

Christ shewed who his mother, sisters, and brethren are.

While Christ spake to the company,
His mother and his brethren were
Without: desiring earnestly,
To talke with him as may appeare.
Then one of them that was there, came
And told our sauiour of the same.

But he preferring farre before,
The worke that he then had in hand,
Encreasing daily more and more;
He said, to such as there did stand,
My mother and brethren be they,
That do my doctrine still obey.

My mother, whom I loue so well,
My brethren, whom I like also,

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Are these: and they (marke what I tell)
For brother and sister shall go.
My friends they are who so do still,
Performe and keepe my fathers will.

The state of the kingdome of God, set forth by seauen parables, and first of the seed.

By parables Christ taught men plaine,
The state, nature, and worthinesse
Of Gods word: he did not disdaine,
To shew alwaies his readinesse,
His chosen in all things he may
To helpe; and winne them eu'ry way.

Christ though of late he had bene let,
And interrupted by his friends,
His office he did not forget,
For their great fault he made amends.
To the sea side from thence he went,
To preach againe with like intent.

And the same place, was the sea side
That by Genezaret doth lie,
Where he sat downe for to abide;
But preased on with company,
He tooke a ship wherein he sate,
And taught them as he had done late.

The people standing on the shore,
With diligence did giue him eare:
The multitude encreasing more,
The more of him did stand in feare.
Whose words and workes they all did see,
In eu'ry thing so well agree.

Behold, said Christ, a sower went
To sowe his seed; but some seed fell

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Farre otherwise then he had meant
By the way side, which could not well
Yeeld fruite: the fowle without delay
Deuour'd them all so cleane away.

Some fell on stonie ground also,
Where they of earth had little store:
They sprung the rather there, but lo
The sunne rose vp and parcht them sore:
And so for lack of roote, I say,
Anon they witherd all away.

Among the thornes some other fell,
Which springing vp were choakt withall:
Some fell in good ground and did well.
The same brought fruite where they did fall,
One corne an hundreth fold or moe,
Some sixtie, some thirty also.

He that hath eares to heare, may heare,
For herein the condition
Of Gods word may to thee appeare,
The rule of thy saluation.
Three sorts decayed all, you see,
The fourth yeelds onely fruite to me.

Then his disciples askt him, why
By parables he taught them then?
To you said Christ this verely
Giu'n is to know, not to those men.
The secrets of Gods kingdome ye,
Shall learne, and know alwaies of me.

To you that haue, more will I giue,
That you may haue abundance still:
He that hath not, although he greeue,
Shall loose all that, against his will.

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For seeing, they shall neither see,
Nor hearing heare, as you heare me.

This Prophesie Esayas spake,
Which now in them fulfilled is:
I will this people surely make,
By hearing so to heare iwis,
That they shall not yet vnderstand,
Nor thinke on that which is at hand.

This peoples heart is waxen fat,
Their eares of hearing deaffe and dull,
They with their eyes haue winked at
The truth, least they should see it full,
Heare, and perceiue it, as yee doe,
And turne, that I might heale them to.

But blessed are your eyes, they see,
Your eares also do heare the same:
All you thereto appointed be,
For you and such I surely came.
The rest of sinne are very full,
And shall remaine both blind and dull.

Christ interpreted to his disciples the parable of the seed.

This Parable heare yee therefore,
When that a man Gods word doth heare,
And vnderstands thereof no more
Then ere he heard, it may appeare
The deuill did catch the word away,
That seed by the way side it lay.

He that had seed in stonie ground,
Did heare the word, and that with ioy,
Yet had no roote, he was not sound,
He dured not, for eu'ry coy

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When trouble for the word shall be,
Offended very soone is he.

He that receiueth seed also,
Among the thornes, are they that heare
The word of God; yet go it fro,
For wordly cares in them appeare.
Deceitfulnesse of riches make
Gods word in them no place can rake.

But he that doth receiue the seed,
In the good ground; is euen he
That heares the word, and doth indeed
Gods word perceiue it for to be.
This beareth fruite an hundreth fold,
Some sixtie, some thirtie, be bold.

The second parable of the good seed, and of the tares declaring likewise the state and condition of Gods word.

Another parable Christ spake,
The kingdom of heau'n is, I say,
Much like one that good seed did take,
And sowed it, and went away:
But while men slept, the enemy,
Did sowe tares there immediatly.

And when the blade sprung vp in sight,
And brought forth fruite, then did appeare
The tares that he had fowne by night:
The seruants seeing, said with feare,
Didst not thou (Maister) sowe good seed?
Whence commeth then this filthie weede?

He said, tho enuious man it is
That hath done this: the seruants say,
Wilt thou that we go gather this;

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And plucke it vp to cast away?
Nay, while about the tares ye go,
Left ye plucke vp the wheate also.

Let both grow till the haruest come,
Then will I to the reapers say,
The tares now gather to one roome,
And binde them in the fire to lay.
My wheate see yee that reapers are,
It be brought to my barne with care.

This parable declareth well,
The state and the condition
Of Gods word writ in the Gospell,
The doctrine of saluation.
The housholder soweth the seeed:
The deu'll sowes tares and other weed.

The 3. parable of the mustard seed, wherein is set foorth the nature of Gods word.

Another parable againe,
Christ put forth to them, saying this,
Gods kingdome like vnto a graine
Of mustard seed assured is:
Which man doth sow within his field,
That it some fruit to him may yeeld.

This seed, of seedes is least of all,
Of hearbes it growes the greatest one
And is a tree (though not so tall)
Yet birds may breed his branch vpon.
The nature of Gods word iwis,
Is very well comparde to this.

For though this seed is very small,
And subiect to contempt therefore,

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Yet it of hearbes growes great'st of all,
And birds therein do breed some store.
Gods word at first seemes so, I say,
Yet groweth great each day by day.

And sharpe in tast is mustard seed,
Yet heateth man, though bitingly:
So is Gods word in very deed
Sharpe to the minde, yet soule healthy.
Of him that takes of this a graine,
It sharply heateth eu'ry vaine.

The fourth parable of the leauen, declaring also thereby the nature of Gods word.

A parable then like the last,
Iesus put forth to them againe,
To proue the nature, force, and tast,
That in Gods word doth sure remaine.
It is like leauen laide in meale,
That leaueneth it eu'ry deale.

As little leauen leaueth not,
Till it haue leauened the meale:
So Gods word searcheth eu'ry knot
Or vaine in man, his sores to heale.
The one makes bread tast well in deed,
The other man which most hath need.

In parables spake Iesus then,
Vnto the people that were there:
He would not speake vnto those men,
This otherwise: as may appeare,
That it might be fulfilled so,
Which Dauid spake so long ago.

My mouth I will open, saith he,
In parables; and shew to man,

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The things that now so hidden be,
And haue bene since the world began.
Then Iesus sent the men away,
For there he made no longer stay.

Christ went into the house, where he declared to his Disciples, desiring it, the meaning of the two parables of the tares.

When Christ into the house was come,
Then his Disciples to him say;
Declare to vs the very summe,
And certaine meaning we thee pray,
Of the same tares so in the field,
We can no reason of them yeeld.

Then Christ did answer them againe,
He that there sowed the good seed,
It was the sonne of man certaine,
The field, it is the world in deed,
The good seed, are Gods children sure,
The tares, the wicked and vnpure.

The enemie, the deuill it is,
The haruest of the world is end:
The Angels are reapers iwis,
Which to his haruest God will send:
And as the tares are burnt in deed,
The wicked so in hell shall speed.

The sonne of man then forth shall send
His Angels, for to gather all
That in his kingdome do offend,
And still from sinne to sinne do fall.
These to hell fire shall be cast tho,
Where they shall gnash their teeth for wo.

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Then shall the iust men shining be,
As is the Sunne in greatest light,
In the kingdome of heau'n, said he,
Abiding in their fathers sight.
See ye these words receiue in feare,
With humble heart, and open eare.

The sixt parable of the pearles, declaring as before the worthinesse of Gods word.

Againe he said, Gods kingdome is
Like to a warie marchant man,
That sought pearles, and found one of price,
To buy the which this marchant can
Find in his heart to sell away
All that he hath without delay.

Old Abraham was such a one,
He left his countrey, friends and all:
His wealth he neuer thought vpon,
But did obey when God did call.

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And Dauid that Gods word dist tast,
As sweet as hony to his last.

And the Apostles they were such,
And so the godly Martyrs all:
These did esteeme nothing so much,
As to obey, when God did call:
These marchants, all they had they sold,
To buy this pearle, surpassing gold.

The seuenth parable of the draw-net, declaring the state and condition of Gods word.

Gods kingdome is like a draw net,
Which one into the sea doth cast:
Things of all sorts when it doth get,
He drawes it full from thence at last.
The good he doth in vessels lay,
But casteth all the bad away.

So shall it be at the worlds end,
The Angels shall seuer the bad,
And such as by no meanes amend,
From iust men, which shall then be glad:
Though wicked men in fire then do
Both waile and gnash their teeth for wo.

Then Iesus asking them could say,
All these things vnderstand ye yet?
Yea Lord, for so say they we may,
Thy words we neuer shall forget.
By this Christ did teach them againe,
The state of Gods word verie plaine.

The godly may not seuer now,
Themselues away from wicked men,
But as the tares in wheate must grow
Till haruest time; the reapers then

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Shall saue the wheate, and for their hire,
Shall burne the tares in flaming fire.

And eu'ry Scribe said Christ, that is
Taught to Gods kingdome, I compare
Vnto a housholder iwis,
Whose treasure houses stored are:
And doth (to whom himselfe so wold)
Bring forth (to giue) both new and old.

As these, so more of Christ were donne,
Then we in writing left vs haue,
Approuing him to be Gods sonne,
Come to the world mans soule to saue.
Yet here the meeke and godly mind,
Of heau'nly foode his fill shall find.

All glorie be to thee on hye,
Oh Father, Sonne and holy Ghost:
One mightie God in Trinitie,
Which saued vs, that else were lost.
To thee be laud oh God therefore,
And prayse, and honour, euermore.