¶
The
path
way
to
perfect
knowledg
.
FIue
&
twenty
bokis
of
the
olde
testamet
ben
bokis
of
feith
,
and
fulli
bokis
of
holy
wryt
.
The
fyrste
is
Genesis
.
the.
ii
.
Exodi
.
the.
iii.
Lenitici
,
the.
iiii
.
Numeri
,
the
.
v.
Deutronomi
.
And
these
fyue
ben
the
bokis
of
Moses
:
the
whych
ben
cleped
proprely
,
the
law
.
The
vi
.
Iosue
,
the
vii
.
boke
is
Iudicum
:
that
encloseth
the
stort
of
Ruth
.
The
viii
.
boke
,
ix
.
x.
xi
▪
xii
.
&
xiii
:
ben
the.
iiii
.
bokes
of
kyngs
,
and
the
tweie
bokes
of
Paralipomenon
The
xiiii
.
boke
is
Esore
,
that
comprehendeth
Neemy
.
And
all
is
do
boke
Therfore
christen
men
&
women
,
olde
and
young
,
shoulden
study
fast
in
the
new
testament
,
for
it
is
of
ful
autoritie
,
and
open
to
vnderstondyng
of
simple
men
,
as
to
the
poyntes
that
most
ben
nedfull
to
saluacion
.
And
the
same
sentence
is
in
the
derkest
places
of
holi
wrytte
,
bothe
open
and
derke
,
whych
sentence
is
in
the
open
places
.
And
eche
place
of
holi
writte
bothe
open
and
derke
:
teacheth
meknes
&
charitie
.
And
therfore
he
that
kepeth
meknes
&
charitie
:
hath
the
trew
vnderstonding
&
perfection
of
all
holi
write
,
as
Austine
preueth
in
his
sermon
of
the
preising
of
charite
.
Therfore
,
no
simple
man
of
wit
be
aferde
vnmesurably
to
study
in
the
tex●…
of
holy
wryt
.
For
why
,
tho
ben
words
of
euerlastynge
lyfe
,
as
Peter
seyth
to
Christ
in
the.
vi
.
chapter
of
Iohn
.
And
the
holi
gost
stirrid
holi
men
to
speke
&
to
wryte
the
wordes
of
holy
wryte
for
the
confort
and
saluacion
of
meke
christen
men
,
as
Peter
in
the
seconde
Epistle
in
the
ende
,
&
Poul
in
the
xv
.
chapiter
.
to
the
Romans
witnessen
.
And
no
clerke
be
proud
of
the
ve●…i
vnderstonding
of
holi
write
:
For
whye
,
verey
vnderstondyng
of
holy
wryt
,
wythouten
charity
that
kepith
Goddes
heestis
:
maketh
a
man
deper
damnid
,
as
Iames
and
Iesu
Christ
wytnessen
.
And
pride
&
couetise
of
Clerkes
is
cause
of
here
blyndnes
and
heresie
:
and
priueth
hem
fro
verrei
vnderstondyng
of
holye
wryt
,
and
maken
hem
to
go
quik
into
hel
,
as
Austin
seith
on
the
Psalter
on
that
worde
,
Descendant
in
I●…fernum
viuentes
.
The
second
Chapter
THE
olde
testamente
is
departed
into
thre
partes
,
into
morall
commandementes
,
Iudicials
and
Ceremomals
.
Moral
commaundements
techen
to
h●…lde
and
preise
&
cheryshe
vertuis
:
and
to
fle
and
repreue
vyces
.
And
these
commaundementes
binden
euer
and
han
strengthe
,
for
tho
ben
grownded
in
charitie
and
in
reason
:
and
in
lawe
of
kynde
.
Iudicials
techin
domis
and
peinis
for
orrible
synnes
.
And
the
Iudiciales
of
Moses
lawe
werene
full
iuste
and
profitable
for
men
,
for
tho
weren
ordeined
of
god
,
that
maye
not
erre
in
his
domis
and
lawes
and
werks
Netheles
,
sith
Christ
was
made
man
and
ordeyned
Lawe
of
mercye
and
charitie
,
and
wole
not
the
death
of
a
sinful
man
but
repentaunce
and
saluacion
:
chrysten
men
ben
not
bounden
to
kepe
the
Iudicials
of
Moises
law
that
weren
ended
in
the
tyme
of
Christes
passion
.
But
yet
christen
lordes
that
han
the
swerde
and
ben
goddis
vikers
in
the.
xiii
.
chapter
to
the
Romaines
:
moune
punish
men
that
trespassen
openly
,
in
cattele
&
bodili
prisone
,
and
sumtyme
by
bodily
death
:
when
the
syn
mai
not
else
be
distried
,
nether
that
the
cominalte
mai
else
be
stablished
in
peace
,
as
the
four
doctours
and
ot●…er
lattere
preuen
openly
by
holy
writte
and
reeson
.
But
loke
that
this
be
don
for
charytye
and
cōmoun
profyt
:
wyth
mercye
and
compassyon
of
brythren
,
not
for
couetyse
neither
pride
,
neither
for
vengeaunce
of
a
●…anis
owne
wronge
.
C●…ymonials
techen
fyguris
and
sacramentes
of
the
olde
lawe
,
that
fyguryde●…
Christ
&
hys
deth
and
the
misteries
of
holye
chirche
in
the
lawe
of
grace
And
the●…e
Cerimonials
ceassiden
vtterly
,
as
to
obligacioun
,
in
the
tyme
of
Christes
deth
,
&
ben
noyeful
and
damnable
to
men
that
kepen
tho
,
and
for
that
the
gospell
is
preached
and
knowen
generalli
.
For
if
tho
cerimonies
ben
kepte
nowe
:
the
keperis
of
the
knowlechen
that
Christ
is
not
yet
commen
,
neither
suffred
death
for
mankynde
.
And
thys
knowlechynge
is
open
heresie
.
For
why
,
the
truth
and
fredome
of
the
Gospell
sufficith
to
saluation
wythout
kepyng
of
Ceremonyes
made
of
god
in
the
olde
lawe
,
and
mych
more
withoute
ceremonyes
of
synfull
men
and
vnkunning
,
that
ben
made
in
the
time
of
Antichriste
,
and
of
vnbyndynge
of
Sathanas
in
the.
xx
.
chapyter
of
Apocalyps
.
Therfore
,
as
it
is
open
Heresye
to
seye
that
the
gospel
wyth
hys
truth
and
fredom
suffysith
not
to
chrysten
mens
saluacion
wythouten
kepyng
of
cerimonies
of
godis
lawe
yeouū
to
Moises
:
so
it
semeth
open
heresy
to
sey
that
the
gospel
with
his
fredom
and
treuth
suffisith
not
to
saluacion
of
chrysten
men
wythoute
kepynge
of
cerimonies
and
statutis
of
sinful
menne
and
vnkunnynge
,
that
benne
made
in
the
tyme
of
Sathanas
and
of
Antichriste
.
¶
The
thryd
chapiter
.
SImple
men
of
wit
moune
be
edified
to
heauenvly
lyueing
,
by
reading
and
knowyng
of
the
olde
testament
.
For
in
the
beginyng
of
Genesis
thei
moun
knowe
howe
God
made
heauen
and
earth
and
al
the
creaturs
of
nought
,
&
made
man
to
hys
owne
Image
and
liknes
and
to
haue
blisse
in
body
and
soule
,
wythouten
anye
ende
.
Also
men
may
know
how
sore
God
punished
Adam
&
Gue
for
breakyng
his
commaundement
,
And
how
Abel
pleased
God
by
feyth
,
meknes
and
charitie
:
and
howe
Cayn
displesed
hym
by
sinnes
,
&
specially
by
enuie
,
hatred
,
and
manquellinge
.
Also
howe
Noe
was
loued
of
God
,
and
al
the
worlde
(
outaken
.
viii
.
persons
)
was
distroyed
for
synne
.
And
howe
for
pryde
and
other
synnes
,
God
departyd
many
langagis
:
that
noman
vnderstode
other
in
the
tour
of
Babel
And
howe
feythfull
and
obedyente
to
God
Abraham
was
that
he
yede
out
of
hys
londe
into
a
straung
countre
&
was
redy
to
slea
his
owne
son
I
saac
,
at
the
wil
of
God
,
&
gat
therfore
myche
rewarde
of
God
.
And
howe
God
distried
Sodome
&
Gomorre
and
other
iii.
Cities
,
for
lecherie
and
other
synnes
,
that
tho
were
sunke
downe
,
&
the
dead
sea
is
now
where
tho
greate
Cites
weren
.
Also
howe
true
and
obedient
to
God
weren
Isaac
,
Iacob
&
Ioseph
:
and
howe
God
kepte
hem
in
al
periles
.
All
thys
processe
of
Genesis
should
styr
christen
men
,
to
be
feithfull
,
and
forto
drede
and
loue
God
:
and
in
all
thynges
dohys
wyll
.
Also
in
Exodi
men
mai
knowe
howe
God
kepte
hys
symple
Puple
in
Egypte
,
and
encreased
hem
greatly
in
that
londe
,
vnder
the
persequucion
&
tyrantry
of
kyng
Pharao
,
&
deliuered
hem
bi
mani
miracles
,
&
punished
Pharao
&
hys
puple
wyth
tenne
strong
vengeaunces
,
and
fedde
hem
meruilousli
in
desert
.
xl
.
yers
,
where
no
dwellynge
of
men
was
before
,
and
made
hem
to
ouercome
the
strong
puple
of
Amalech
.
After
thys
God
taught
hem
wyse
gouernaile
,
&
bitoke
to
hem
the
ten
commaundements
and
other
iudiciallis
to
punyshe
greatly
open
greate
sinnes
.
And
they
weren
ful
bisi
to
make
a
costlue
tabernacle
to
the
honoure
of
God
by
hys
bydding
&
teching
:
that
figured
holy
chirch
&
vertuis
in
mens
soulis
.
At
the
last
God
toke
greate
vengeaunce
on
hem
for
Idolatry
:
whan
they
forsoken
the
feyth
and
worshipyng
of
God
,
and
honoreden
yeotun
caluys
by
styring
of
the
deuyl
.
And
then
Moses
was
a
trewe
mediatour
bytwyx
God
&
the
synfull
puple
:
and
seyde
thus
to
God
,
for
greate
tryst
of
hys
mercie
and
for
ryghtfulnes
and
greate
charitie
to
the
puple
.
Either
forgiue
thou
thys
trespas
to
hem
:
eyther
do
me
out
of
the
boke
in
which
thou
hast
wri
ten
me
.
And
for
this
deuoute
preier
&
greate
charitie
of
Moses
:
God
sparid
the
sinful
puple
,
&
distried
not
sodenli
al
the
puple
,
but
toke
hem
to
mercie
&
grace
.
And
this
proces
of
Exodie
should
make
men
cristi
in
godes
helpe
&
to
be
true
in
hys
loue
,
&
Eschew
his
offence
with
al
here
mightes
The
thyrde
boke
clepid
leuitici
:
teacheth
men
sacrifices
due
to
God
,
and
for
synnes
of
the
puple
in
the
tyme
of
the
olde
testament
,
and
that
no
man
vnworthy
shoulde
nyghe
to
the
seruise
&
sacrifice
of
God
.
These
sacrifices
owne
not
to
be
kept
now
:
for
tho
figuriden
the
passion
and
the
death
of
Christ
,
and
remission
of
sins
by
the
bl●…e
and
merite
of
Christ
in
the
lawe
of
grace
.
Also
this
boke
te
:
cheth
men
to
absteine
fro
wedlocke
of
nyghe
kynne
and
affinitie
wythin
the.
ii
.
degree
,
and
ordeyneth
peine
of
death
for
Idolatrye
,
and
wedynge
wythin
the.
ii
.
degree
of
consanguinity
and
affinytye
.
At
the
last
,
thys
boke
teacheth
men
to
kepe
Goddes
hestes
&
forto
loue
here
neyghboures
and
to
do
equitie
to
hem
,
and
werkis
of
mercye
to
nedy
men
,
and
commaundeth
iuste
weightes
&
measures
&
domis
and
for
byddeth
strongly
Idolatrie
and
wytchcrafte
&
false
coniutinges
and
telleth
prosperiti
that
shal
come
to
hem
that
kepen
Goddes
hestes
,
and
vengeaunce
&
peine
to
hem
that
breaken
Goddes
hestes
.
And
thys
proces
of
Leuitici
,
shuld
make
christen
men
aferd
to
breake
Gods
hests
and
ioyful
to
kepe
tho
to
lyfe
&
deth
for
reward
of
God
in
euerlastynge
blysse
.
The
fourth
boke
clepid
Numeri
,
tellethe
the
noumbre
of
puple
ledde
out
of
Egypt
,
both
of
lewde
men
&
and
of
priestes
and
of
dea●…enis
:
and
howe
God
kepte
hem
lōgein
the
hor●…yble
desert
,
and
punyshed
hem
all
by
death
,
outake
Caleph
and
Iosue
for
grutchyng
and
mistrust
to
gods
word
,
and
punished
Marie
Moses
suster
wyth
lepree
:
for
back
bytynge
of
Moses
the
mild
seruaunt
of
God
.
Also
,
whan
God
would
haue
distried
the
puple
for
grutchyng
ayens
hym
Moses
preyed
wythe
all
hys
herte
for
the
puple
that
woulde
stone
hym
to
death
.
Also
God
teacheth
there
,
that
he
that
doth
any
synne
by
pride
:
shal
be
dead
.
And
that
he
that
brake
the
sabat
,
yea
by
gaderyng
of
stiks
,
should
be
stoned
of
all
the
puple
.
Also
God
punished
sore
Core
,
Dathan
and
Abiron
,
that
weren
rebell
ayens
Moses
and
Aaron
,
&
maden
discencion
in
the
puple
:
so
that
the
earth
opneide
&
deuoured
hem
with
here
tabernacles
&
al
here
cattel
,
and
they
yeden
downe
quicke
into
hell
.
Yet
whan
the
puple
grutched
ayens
Moses
and
Aaron
,
and
would
slea
them
vniustly
,
&
God
kyll●…d
manie
thousandes
〈◊〉
Puple
heerefore
:
Mo●…es
bade
Aaron
prey
&
offer
en●…ens
for
the
puple
,
and
so
he
ceassed
the
vengeaunce
.
Also
God
techeth
ther
that
priests
shulen
haue
the
first
fruits
&
first
borne
things
&
parte
of
sacri●…ices
,
au●…wes
&
offeryngs
,
&
dekins
shoulen
haue
tythis
of
the
puple
,
and
yeue
her
tythis
,
that
is
the
tenth
part
of
tithis
(
which
thei
token
of
the
puple
)
to
the
highhest
priest
,
and
priests
and
dekins
shulen
holde
hem
apayde
wyth
here
spiritual
parte
of
tythys
and
offringes
,
and
take
no
possession
in
the
londe
of
here
brithren
.
For
God
hym
silfe
shal
be
the
parte
&
heritag
of
priests
:
in
the
middis
of
the
sonnes
of
Israel
.
Also
for
Moses
and
Aaron
beleuidē
not
fully
to
Gods
worde
,
but
doureden
of
his
byhestes
at
the
water
of
a●…enseinge
:
God
sufferede
not
hem
to
enter
into
the
lond
of
byheste
,
but
,
both
were●…
deade
in
desert
.
Also
in
this
boke
ben
tolde
the
dwelings
of
the
children
of
Israel
in
desert
and
the
batteils
that
the●…
hadden
aye●…s
heathen
men
,
and
of
b●…laam
how
he
was
hyred
to
cursse
Godes
puple
:
and
howe
God
compelled
hym
to
blesse
his
puple
,
and
to
seye
prophe●…i
of
Christ
.
And
for
the
puple
of
Israel
dyd
fornication
&
〈◊〉
:
God
bade
Moses
hang
all
the
pri●…ces
ayens
the
sune
,
that
the
stronge
vengeaunce
of
God
were
tur●…id
awaye
fro
the
pup●…e
of
Israell
.
And
for
as
miche
as
Phinees
the
pr●…ste
kylled
a
Duke
of
Israel
that
dide
fornication
wyth
an
heathen
wom●…
,
and
dyd
th●…s
for
feruent
loue
to
Godhe
gate
of
Godeuerlastynge
pri●…hode
for
hym
&
his
scede
,
&
turnid
awe●…
gods
wrath
fro
the
children
of
Israel
.
Also
there
is
taught
,
who
〈◊〉
be
heire
of
a
man
▪
&
of
holi
daies
&
●…crifices
&
offerings
made
in
tho
,
〈◊〉
which
a●…ows
shulen
be
holden
,
W●…
not
,
of
b●…tels
&
how
the
preis
shulē●…e
parted
amonge
the
puple
,
and
what
should
fall
to
the
prieste
,
&
howe
the
lond
of
bihest
should
be
departed
to
xii
.
lynages
,
&
dekenis
shoulen
haue
cities
to
enhabite
in
tho
,
and
the
subarbis
to
here
shepe
and
beastes
,
and
cities
of
refuite
shoulden
be
ordeined
for
hem
that
shedden
bloude
vnwylfully
,
not
of
purpose
,
neyther
hatred
before
goyng
.
And
he
that
is
gyltie
of
maus
death
:
shall
be
slaine
wythouten
any
redemption
.
This
processe
of
Numeri
,
shold
stir
christen
men
,
forto
loue
here
enimies
&
do
good
to
hem
,
as
Moses
&
Aaron
diden
,
and
to
kepe
Goddis
hesles
,
and
shede
not
mans
bloude
vniustli
The.
v.
boke
clepyd
deutronomie
:
Then
God
teacheth
what
maner
kyng
the
puple
shal
make
:
and
what
shal
be
his
office
.
Afterwarde
God
teacheth
that
priestis
and
dekynys
,
and
all
that
bene
of
the
same
linage
:
shoulen
not
haue
parte
and
herytage
wyth
the
residue
puple
of
Israel
.
For
thei
shoulen
eate
the
sacrifices
of
the
lorde
,
and
the
offrings
of
him
and
thei
sholen
take
none
other
thinge
of
the
possession
of
here
britherne
.
For
whye
,
God
hym selfe
is
her
heritage
.
Ferthermore
God
for
bideth
Idolatry
,
and
to
enquyre
cōiureris
:
and
to
kepe
dreamis
and
chiteryng
of
byrddis
,
and
commaundeth
that
no
●…ytch
neither
enchaunter
be
,
&
that
men
take
not
councel
at
hem
the
han
spirites
in
cloos
:
neither
at
●…alse
diuiners
,
nether
axe
of
dead
men
the
truth
.
Also
god
sh●…l
reise
a
prophete
of
her
brethren
,
the
is
Christ
the
sauioure
:
&
he
that
heareth
not
his
words
,
shal
be
pu
nished
.
A
prophet
that
wil
speke
by
pride
,
in
the
name
of
god
that
thing
that
god
bade
not
him
,
either
by
the
name
of
other
gods
:
shal
be
slaine
.
Also
.
v●…
cities
of
refuite
either
of
fraunchise
,
shullen
be
:
that
he
that
sleeth
a
man
not
by
hatred
but
ayens
hys
wyll
:
be
saued
.
And
he
that
sleeth
a
man
by
hatered
and
byfore
castinge
:
shal
be
slain
wythoute
mercie
either
raunsom
.
He
that
is
conuicte
to
haue
seide
false
wytnes
ayens
his
brother
:
shal
haue
the
same
peyne
to
whych
hys
brother
shuld
be
put
,
if
he
had
be
giltie
.
Also
priests
shoulen
confort
hem
that
gone
to
iust
batteil
,
to
haue
truste
in
god
&
drede
not
here
enimies
.
And
the
●…erdful
men
,
&
they
that
han
newil
bil
ded
an
house
,
eyther
newly
plante●…
a
vine
,
or
new●…
wedid
a
wyfe
,
&
not
vsed
hyr
go
not
to
batteil
.
And
first
warriers
shulen
profer
peace
to
a
city
And
if
the
citie
yelde
it self
:
men
therin
shulen
lyue
vnder
tribute
,
else
al
men
therin
shoulen
be
slayne
.
And
this
is
vnderstonden
of
the
cities
that
been
not
yeuun
into
possession
to
the
puple
of
Israel
And
ther
is
told
the
departyng
of
preyes
&
what
trees
shoulen
be
kit
downe
in
the
bysegyng
.
Also
God
teacheth
what
shal
be
done
:
whanne
a
man
is
founden
slaine
,
and
the
slear
is
vnknowen
.
A
child
rebel
to
the
father
and
mother
,
&
that
yeueth
himselfe
to
glotonye
lecheti●…
and
drunkenesse
▪
Shal
be
stoned
of
al
the
citie
.
A
man
shal
kepe
the
oxe
&
shepe
of
hys
brother
that
is
straied
awei
:
&
bring
it
a●…en
to
hys
brother
,
&
so
of
other
beasts
&
of
eche
thyng
.
And
if
thou
knowest
not
whose
tho
ben
:
y●
shalt
kepe
tho
stil
:
til
thi
brother
seke
and
receiue
tho
.
Who
euer
doeth
auoutrie
:
shal
be
deade
.
And
if
a
man
defoul
a
virgin
:
he
shal
wedde
hir
,
and
yeue
fifti
sicles
of
siluer
to
hir
father
Thou
shalt
not
take
a
seruaunt
to
his
lorde
:
whych
seruaunt
fledde
to
thee
,
but
he
shall
dwel
with
the
in
a
place
that
pleaseth
hym
.
None
whore
shal
be
of
the
doughters
of
Israell
:
neither
a
lechour
of
the
sonnes
of
Israel
Thou
shalt
not
lene
to
thy
brother
for
vsurie
.
If
a
man
hate
his
wyfe
:
he
shal
wryte
and
yeue
to
hyr
a
libell
of
forsakyng
.
But
this
is
forbedun
of
Christ
in
the
gospel
of
Mathew
,
in
the.
v.
and
xix
chapter
.
Whan
a
man
hath
take
late
a
wife
:
he
shal
not
go
to
bateil
,
neither
any
commune
office
shal
be
put
on
him
,
but
●…o
yere
he
shal
be
glad
with
hys
wife
,
&
take
hede
to
his
hous
.
He
that
proloineth
hys
brother
,
whych
is
a
freman
,
and
seleth
hyin
:
he
shal
be
slayne
.
Thou
shalt
yelde
at
nyght
to
a
pore
man
his
wedde
:
and
in
the
same
dai
thou
shalt
paye
to
a
●…edy
traueilour
hys
hyre
.
Fathers
shoulen
not
be
slaine
for
the
sonnes
,
neither
sonnes
for
the
fathers
.
Whan
thou
reapest
corne
iu
the
feeld
,
&
foryetist
an
handful
thou
shalt
not
turne
ayene
to
take
it
:
but
thou
shalt
suffer
that
a
comling
,
fatherles
chylde
,
and
wydowe
take
it
awaye
.
And
so
of
gatheryng
of
olyues
,
and
of
gatheryng
of
grapes
.
Whan
tweyemen
ben
at
debating
,
and
the
wife
of
one
wole
deliuer
hyr
housband
fro
the
hond
of
the
stronger
and
take
him
by
the
pryuimembres
:
she
shalleese
hir
hond
withouten
ani
mercie
.
And
there
God
for
bydith
false
weightes
and
measurs
,
a
more
and
a
lesse
.
Also
dekinnis
sholen
prouounce
and
seye
wyth
hygh
voice
to
all
the
men
of
Israell
.
He
is
curssed
that
dothe
Idolatrye
,
or
breaketh
any
commaundement
of
God
,
or
doeth
ayens
any
part
of
the
lawe
of
God
:
and
al
the
puple
shal
sei●…
A
men
.
Also
God
bi●…teth
greate
prosperitie
to
his
puple
if
thei
kepe
his
he
itis
,
and
thei
shulen
be
blessed
in
citi
&
blessed
in
fielde
&
the
fruit
of
here
wombe
,
&
the
fruit
of
,
here
lono
shal
be
blessed
,
&
al
thynges
that
pertein
to
hem
shulen
ve
blessed'
&
they
shulen
haue
victorie
of
here
enemies
,
and
mani
prosperities
of
soule
&
body
,
shulen
bifale
to
hem
.
And
if
they
kepe●…
not
goddis
hestis
:
thei
shulen
be
eurssed
in
citie
&
felde
.
The
frute
of
here
wombe
,
&
al
thinges
that
perteyne
to
hem
,
shulen
be
curssed
.
God
shal
sende
h●…m
hunger
thryst
,
pestilence
,
feuer
,
&
colde
and
brenning
,
and
he
ate
&
corupte
ayer
,
tyll
they
perishen
.
Enemyes
shulen
haue
victorie
,
&
conquere
hem
,
and
take
of
hem
prisoners
.
And
yet
God
shal
punishe
hem
wyth
huge
vengeaunce
that
al
that
hearē
be
astonied
.
Nethelesse
,
if
whan
al
these
vengeaunces
ben
fallen
on
hem
,
thei
repenten
,
ve
ryli
in
the
here
&
●…utnen
aythe
to
God
&
obeien
to
his
hestis
in
al
he●…e
herie
&
al
here
soule
:
the
lord
shal
haue
mercy
on
hem
,
&
brynge
hem
ayene
to
here
londe
fro
al
folkes
among
which
they
weren
scatered
.
And
god
shal
bles
hem
&
make
●…em
to
be
of
m●…re
numbre
,
than
hete
fathers
weren
:
and
shall
turne
al
y
●
●…uisses
on
here
enimies
.
And
God
shal
yeue
to
hem
abundance
in
al
wer
kis
of
here
hands
&
in
al
thi●…
os
that
per
teyne
to
hem
.
Moses
spake
all
these
words
to
al
the
puple
of
Israel
and
bade
hem
dread
not
here
enimies
for
God
shal
go
befor
his
puple
,
&
euer
come
here
enimies
.
A●…d
Moses
ordeined
●…osue
to
be
leader
of
the
puple
before
all
the
multitude
of
the
sons
of
Israel
.
Moses
wrot
this
law
and
af●…it
to
priests
y
●
●…ons
of
Leui
,
&
to
the
eldermen
of
Israel
&
badehē
rede
the
words
of
this
law
bifore
al
Israel
in
the
heating
of
al
men
&
women
little
children
and
comlings
ether
conuersis
to
the
feith
of
Iewes
:
that
thei
hear
and
learne
and
dread
our
lord
God
,
and
kepe
&
fyl
al
the
wordes
of
thys
lawe
.
Moses
by
goddis
commaundement
wrote
a
greate
songe
&
taught
it
the
children
of
Israel
,
that
it
should
be
into
wytnessynge
ayens
hem
.
And
Moses
clepyd
togithere
all
the
elder
men
&
teacheris
:
and
clepid
heauen
and
earth
into
witnessyng
ayens
hem
.
And
whan
Moses
had
filled
al
the
wordes
of
thys
greate
●…oung
:
he
styed
in
to
an
hyl
,
and
was
deade
there
,
&
God
buried
hym
,
and
manne
knew
not
his
sepulchre
tyl
into
thys
daye
.
Chrysten
men
sholden
mych
read
and
heare
&
●…un
this
boke
of
Deutronomi
,
that
comprehendeth
all
the
law
of
Moses
:
&
disposeth
men
for
to
beleue
in
Christe
and
heare
and
kepe
hys
wordes
.
¶
The.
iiii
.
chapiter
THe
.
vi
.
boke
whyche
is
clepid
Iosue
:
telith
in
general
that
Iosue
brought
the
puple
into
that
lond
of
behest
,
&
departed
it
by
lot
to
hem
.
And
firste
howe
God
bihight
to
Iosue
that
none
shulde
moū
a●…enstōd
him
&
his
puple
in
all
the
daies
of
his
lyfe
.
And
God
bihight
that
Iosue
shuld
departe
by
lot
to
hys
puple
the
lond
of
bihest
.
And
God
commanded
him
to
kepe
al
the
law
&
how
not
fro
it
:
but
thincke
therin
by
days
and
nyghtes
,
that
he
kepe
&
do
tho
things
that
ben
writen
therin
.
After
this
,
Iosue
sent
aspies
:
to
behold
the
londe
&
the
Citie
of
Ierico
,
and
they
entriden
in
the
house
of
a
common
woman
Raab
:
and
weren
sauyd
there
,
by
counsel
and
helpe
of
the
woman
.
Than
Iosue
bade
the
priests
take
the
Arke
of
the
bond
of
peace
of
the
lord
and
go
bifore
the
puple
,
&
thei
diden
so
.
And
whanne
the
priestis
camen
and
broughten
the
arke
to
the
brink
of
Iordan
:
the
great
water
of
Iordan
wente
aweie
to
the
dead
sea
,
and
the
hygher
waters
stoden
styl
as
a
wal
,
so
that
the
puple
passed
by
the
drie
bottome
,
and
the
priestis
stoden
on
the
drie
earth
in
the
myds
of
Iordan
.
Also
Iosue
bade
.
xii
.
men
of
the.
xii
.
linages
of
Israel
,
take
.
xii
.
grete
stones
fro
the
bottome
of
Iordan
:
and
set
tho
in
Galgalis
,
where
the
puple
settid
tentis
in
the
next
night
after
the
passyng
of
Iordan
:
&
take
.
xii
.
stonis
of
the
lond
and
put
in
the
middis
of
Iordan
,
where
the
Arke
had
stond
,
and
bade
that
fathers
shulden
teach
here
children
howe
they
passeden
by
the
drie
bottome
of
Iordan
,
for
god
dried
the
waters
thereof
,
as
he
had
do
before
in
the
red
sea
.
And
the
priestis
&
prynces
and
al
the
puple
obeiden
to
Iosue
.
Than
Iosue
circumcidid
the
puple
that
was
vncircumci
dyd
.
xl
.
yeres
in
deserte
:
&
the
Puple
made
pask
in
the.
xiiii
.
day
of
the
moneth
at
euentide
.
And
Iosue
seeth
an
Angel
of
the
lord
,
which
angel
was
prince
of
goddis
oost
.
Also
the
strong
wallis
of
Iericho
feldene
downe
at
goddis
ordenaunce
,
whane
priestis
braiden
wyth
seuen
trumpis
,
and
al
the
puple
cried
anhigh
in
the.
vii
.
dai
of
cumpasyng
of
the
citie
.
And
the
puple
of
Israel
dystroyed
and
brent
the
cittie
and
al
things
therein
:
outaken
Raab
and
tho
that
werene
in
hir
house
,
and
outaken
golde
and
syluer
and
vessel
of
brasse
and
Irun
:
whych
they
haloweden
in
to
the
tresorye
of
the
lorde
.
Also
,
for
Achior
did
ayens
goddis
bydding
and
toke
to
him
silf
a
thynge
reserued
to
goddis
vse
:
he
was
stonid
&
brent
&
al
hys
goods
weren
brent
wyth
hym
.
And
al
this
punysheyng
was
done
on
hyme
:
for
afor
this
the
puple
of
Israel
might
not
stonde
but
was
ouercūe
of
here
enimyes
.
After
thys
punyshynge
of
Achior
,
Iosue
toke
the
citie
of
Haie
,
and
kylled
the
kynge
and
all
the
puple
and
distryed
and
brent
the
citie
,
and
honged
the
kyng
thereof
in
a
iebat
.
Than
Iosue
bilded
an
auter
to
God
in
the
hyll
of
He
ball
:
&
offered
theron
brent
sacrifices
,
and
peacible
sacrifices
,
&
wrot
the
Deutronomie
of
Moses
lawe
on
stonis
.
And
fyrst
he
blessid
the
puple
of
Israel
.
And
after
thes
things
:
he
reade
the
wordes
of
blissynge
and
curssing
and
all
thyngs
that
weren
written
in
the
boke
of
the
lawe
.
He
lefte
nothinge
vntouched
of
these
thyngs
whych
Moses
had
commaunded
:
but
he
declarede
all
thynges
before
all
the
multytude
of
Israel
,
to
women
and
to
lyttle
chyldren
and
to
com●…ings
that
dwelliden
amonge
hem
.
Also
men
of
Eabaon
feynid●…n
hem
to
be
offer
cuntre
:
and
by
thys
fraude
they
gaten
of
Iosue
peace
and
lyfe
,
of
Iosue
&
other
princis
.
And
for
this
fraude
:
thei
and
al
here
successours
weren
made
bond
to
bryng
wodde
&
water
to
the
seruice
of
the
auter
&
of
al
the
multitud
of
Israel
for
euer
.
Also
Iosue
by
gods
helpe
,
ouercam
v.
greate
Kingis
in
oon
daye
,
&
made
hys
Princis
treade
on
the
neckis
of
these
Kingis
.
And
than
he
hongid
these
Kingis
on
v.
Iebatis
.
And
he
ouercame
al
tho
Kyngis
&
here
puples
▪
that
dwellyden
in
the
londe
of
bihest
,
that
weren
.
xxxi
.
Kyngis
,
&
departed
the
londe
of
biheste
to
xii
.
linagis
of
Israell
by
lot
,
and
cities
of
refuite
and
cities
to
Priestes
&
dekenis
to
dwell
in
as
God
commaunded
.
Thys
processe
of
Iosue
shulde
styr
christen
men
to
haue
greate
triste
in
God
:
&
dread
no
man
neither
puple
,
as
loung
as
they
seruiden
tre●…ly
almyghty
God
.
The
vii
.
boke
cleped
Iudicum
:
tel
lith
that
the
puple
of
Israell
was
rulid
wyth
Iudgis
either
domesemen
aftir
the
death
of
Iosue
,
&
somtyme
by
a
womanne
Delbora
.
Whan
the
puple
fell
to
great
synnes
,
&
specialli
to
Idolatrie
:
God
sente
aduersaries
on
hem
,
that
turmētiden
the
Iewes
ful
sore
,
and
kylliden
mani
thousandis
of
hem
,
&
helden
other
vnder
tribute
and
great
thraldam
.
And
whan
the
puple
repentid
verely
&
cried
to
God
with
al
here
hert
:
he
sent
helpe
to
hem
,
and
reisid
a
iudg
that
ouercame
here
enemies
,
&
reulyd
hem
well
in
peace
and
in
goddis
lawe
.
This
processe
of
Iudicum
shuld
stryre
christen
menne
for
to
flee
sinne
and
loue
God
,
that
doethe
so
greate
mercie
to
hem
that
repenten
verely
.
This
boke
comprehendith
the
storie
of
Ruthe
,
that
was
an
heathen
woman
:
and
lefte
hirnacion
&
Idolatri
,
and
beleuid
in
God
&
kept
hys
law
.
Therefore
she
was
wedid
to
a
noble
man
of
the
Iewes
,
and
is
set
in
the
Genalogie
eyther
kynrid
of
oure
sauioure
.
Thys
stori
shulde
styr
al
men
to
forsake
here
synne
and
serue
God
truly
in
all
here
lyfe
,
for
rewarde
of
heuenlye
blysse
.
The
fyrst
boke
of
kynges
,
telleth
The.
v.
Chapiter
THe
.
iii.
boke
of
kyngs
tellith
fyrst
howe
Adonias
sonne
of
Dauid
wolde
haue
reignid
and
Dauid
in
his
life
ordeined
Solomon
to
be
king
,
&
he
reygned
bifore
the
death
of
Dauid
.
Than
Adonias
fled
for
dred
to
the
tabirnacle
of
god
,
&
held
the
corner
of
the
auter
tyl
Solomon
sayd
that
if
he
wer
a
good
man
:
he
shuld
not
die
.
Else
,
if
iuil
were
founden
in
him
:
he
shuld
die
.
Than
Dauid
in
the
time
of
hys
dyinge
charged
Solomon
to
kepe
well
Gods
law
:
&
to
quite
to
the
sonnes
of
Bersellaye
the
truth
and
kyndnes
of
her
father
and
to
punishe
Ioab
for
his
trecherous
manquellyng
of
Abner
,
and
of
Amasa
in
the
tyme
of
peace
.
And
to
punish
wisely
Semei
,
for
his
worst
curssing
which
he
did
to
Dauid
,
After
these
things
Solomon
made
Adonias
to
be
slayne
:
for
he
purposed
gilefuly
to
be
Kyng
.
And
Solomon
casted
:
awai
Abiathar
,
that
he
was
not
the
preist
of
the
Lorde
and
exiled
him
also
.
For
he
assentid
to
Adonias
and
was
traytor
to
the
Kynge
.
And
Solomon
commaunded
Ioab
to
be
flayne
in
the
tabernacle
at
the
auter
:
for
he
had
slayne
gylefully
two
princis
in
peace
,
wythouten
wittynge
of
Dauid
.
And
the
King
ordeinid
Sadoch
priest
:
for
Abiathar
.
Than
the
Kinge
commaunded
Semei
that
he
should
not
go
out
of
Ierusalem
.
And
if
he
passed
the
strond
of
Cedron
:
he
should
be
deade
.
And
Semei
acceptid
this
.
And
for
he
passid
these
boundis
:
the
Kinge
commaundyd
him
to
be
slaine
.
And
so
he
was
slaine
by
commaundement
of
the
Kyng
.
After
thes
thyngis
:
the
reume
was
confirmed
in
to
the
hondis
of
Solomon
,
&
he
weddyde
the
daughter
of
Pharao
King
of
Egipt
.
Than
God
bad
Solomon
axe
of
him
what
him
liked
.
And
he
axid
that
God
shuld
yeue
to
him
wise
herte
,
that
he
might
deme
hys
puple
and
make
discrecion
either
departynge
bytwix
good
&
euyl
.
And
thys
axynge
pleased
God
ful
mych
Therefore
God
yafe
to
hym
a
wyse
herte
and
vnderstondyng
,
in
so
mych
that
none
before
him
was
like
hym
,
neyther
shall
ryse
after
hyme
.
Also
God
yafe
to
him
richesse
and
Glorie
that
none
amonge
kyngis
was
lyke
hym
in
all
dayes
byfore
.
Than
,
for
Solomon
yafe
a
wyse
sentence
of
dome
bitwix
tweie
common
women
,
that
passide
the
wit
of
common
men
:
theye
dredden
the
Kyng
and
seiden
,
Gods
wisdam
was
in
him
to
make
dome
.
Than
is
tolde
the
worshipful
household
and
meinie
of
Solomon
.
After
these
thynges
Solomon
byldyde
a
noble
house
to
himsilfe
:
and
a
famous
temple
to
God
in
Ierusalem
And
after
that
the
temple
was
fully
made
:
al
the
elder
men
and
pryncis
of
linagis
and
Dukis
,
and
of
meinies
of
the
chyldren
of
Israell
,
weren
gatherid
to
Kynge
▪
Solomon
in
Ierusalem
:
to
brynge
the
arke
of
God
fro
Sion
in
to
hys
owne
place
in
the
temple
.
Than
the
Kyng
axed
of
God
many
prayeris
,
and
profetis
for
hem
that
preiden
deuoutly
in
the
temple
,
and
God
graunted
tho
.
After
these
thyngis
,
God
halowed
the
temple
and
certified
to
Solomon
:
that
if
he
kepte
all
hys
commaundementes
:
he
shoulde
set
the
trone
of
Solomons
rewme
on
Israel
wythouten
ende
.
And
if
the
puple
of
Israel
and
here
chyldren
kepte
not
Goddis
heestes
,
but
worshipen
alien
goddis
:
he
shall
do
away
Israel
fro
the
fat
of
the
lond
whych
he
yafe
to
hem
,
and
God
shal
caste
awaye
fro
hys
syght
the
temple
which
he
halowed
to
his
name
,
and
Israel
shal
be
into
a
prouerb
,
either
fable
either
tale
to
al
puples
,
&
this
house
shall
be
into
ensample
.
After
this
,
the
Quene
of
Saba
came
to
Solomon
:
and
had
greate
araye
of
men
and
iewelse
,
and
yafe
many
iewelse
to
Solomon
,
&
he
ayene
to
hir
.
Also
Solomon
taught
hyr
al
things
that
she
had
in
hir
herte
,
&
she
blessed
God
&
Solomon
and
his
seruauntis
and
yed
in
to
her
lond
.
Than
Solomon
made
manye
sheldis
&
bucleris
of
golde
,
and
made
a
greate
trone
of
Iueriand
clothed
it
with
fine
golde
.
Than
kynge
Solomon
was
mangnified
ouer
all
kyngis
of
the
earth
:
in
ryches
and
wisdome
.
And
al
the
earth
desyred
to
see
hys
face
and
to
heare
his
wisdom
,
which
his
God
had
yeuen
in
his
hert
.
After
al
these
things
Solomon
whan
he
was
elde
louid
gretli
mani
hethen
women
&
had
a.
M
wiues
principales
&
secōdaris
.
And
than
his
herte
was
be
shrewed
&
peruertid
bi
the
women
,
that
he
suid
alien
Gods
and
worshipid
hem
.
Therfore
,
God
reised
Turrian
aduersari
to
Solomon
in
his
lyfe
,
&
departed
his
rewme
in
the
time
of
Roboam
his
son
,
&
yafe
.
x.
linagis
to
Ieroboam
his
seruant
,
&
kept
oo
linage
to
his
son
for
the
merite
of
Dauid
his
father
.
And
thys
departing
bifelmich
for
that
Roboam
forsoke
the
councel
of
olde
&
wise
men
,
&
surd
the
councel
of
yong
men
,
&
spake
hard
wordes
to
the
puple
.
Than
Roboam
gathered
proudli
al
the
house
of
Iuda
&
the
linage
of
Beniamin
,
an
hundrid
thousand
&
foure
score
thousand
of
chosen
men
&
warioures
:
that
thei
shulden
fight
ayens
the
house
of
Israel
,
and
bringe
ayene
the
rewme
to
Roboam
,
sonne
of
Solomon
.
But
God
for
bad
this
war
to
Roboam
&
al
his
puple
for
whey
,
thys
worde
of
departyng
of
y
rewme
was
don
of
God
.
Than
Ieroboam
made
two
golden
calues
and
bade
Israel
worshyp
tho
,
&
stie
no
more
to
Ierusalem
and
seide
.
Israel
,
●…o
thes
ben
thy
Gods
,
that
ledden
the
out
of
Egipte
,
And
he
made
vnworthi
prestis
of
the
laste
(
or
visest
)
men
of
the
puple
,
that
weren
not
of
the
sonnes
of
Leui.
And
he
made
temples
in
hygh
places
.
Also
whan
Ieroboam
stode
on
the
auter
&
casted
incens
a
man
of
God
came
from
Iuda
by
the
word
of
God
,
&
seide
.
A
son
(
Iosias
by
name
)
shal
be
borne
to
the
house
of
Dauid
,
and
he
shall
●…lea
on
thys
auter
the
priestis
of
hygh
places
,
that
brenen
nowe
incens
in
thys
auter
.
And
he
shall
brene
bonis
of
men
on
thys
auter
.
And
the
prophet
yafe
this
token
.
That
the
auter
should
be
clef●…
and
the
ashis
therin
shal
be
shed
out
.
Than
Ieroboam
helde
forth
hys
hond
,
&
bade
take
that
prophet
:
and
hys
hond
was
drie
,
&
he
myght
not
drawe
it
ayen
.
And
by
prayer
of
the
prophet
the
honde
was
healed
:
and
the
token
befelle
on
the
auter
as
the
prophet
seid
.
And
for
that
the
prophet
eat
bread
in
that
place
ayens
godis
byddynge
,
yea
bi
dysceyte
of
a
false
prophet
:
the
tru
prophet
of
God
was
flayne
of
a
lyon
by
the
weye
homeward
.
After
these
wordis
Ieroboam
turned
not
ayene
fro
his
worst
wei
:
but
ayeneward
,
of
the
last
(
or
vilest
)
puple
he
made
priestis
of
hygh
placis
.
Who
euer
wolde
fyl
hys
hond
,
was
made
pryeste
of
hyghe
placis
.
And
for
this
cause
the
house
of
Ieroboam
synned
and
was
distried
and
done
awaye
●…ro
the
fare
of
the
earth
.
After
thys
,
the
prophete
Ahia
that
was
bluide
for
elde
:
knewe
the
wife
of
Ieroboam
,
that
feined
hir
to
be
an
other
womman
.
And
he
bifore
seide
to
hir
that
hir
sike
sonne
shuld
die
,
in
hir
entring
into
hyr
house
,
&
that
the
house
of
Ieroboam
shuld
be
destried
vtterlie
,
for
hys
syns
.
And
Israel
shall
be
dreuen
out
of
his
lond
for
the
syns
of
Ieroboam
,
that
sinned
&
made
Israell
to
do
sinne
.
Also
the
puple
of
Iuda
did
Idolatri
.
Therfore
the
Kyng
of
Egipt
toke
awai
the
treasurs
of
gods
house
and
of
the
●…ingis
house
,
and
the
golden
shieldis
of
Solomon
,
for
which
Roboam
made
sheldis
of
bras
&
batayle
was
bytwyx
Roboam
and
Ieroboam
in
all
daies
.
Than
Abia
reigned
.
iii.
yere
in
Iuda
,
&
yede
in
al
the
synnes
of
hys
father
.
After
hym
roose
Kyng
Asa
in
Iuda
,
and
he
did
ryghtfulnes
bifore
God
,
and
dyd
aweye
Idolatrie
,
&
Sodomitis
fro
the
londe
.
And
his
hert
was
perfect
with
god
in
al
dais
.
And
shortli
,
among
all
the
kinges
of
Israell
,
was
none
feythful
to
God
.
Some
weren
good
among
the
kinges
of
Iuda
.
And
this
fygurith
that
a
monge
men
of
holye
churche
ben
some
good
:
out
amonge
heretikis
,
is
none
good
vtterlye
,
as
Ierome
seith
.
After
many
euel
kingis
of
Israel
,
rose
Achab
the
worst
of
al
bifore
him
.
And
he
weddid
Iesa
bell
an
heathen
woman
,
the
doughter
of
Mechaal
,
king
of
Sidonies
,
and
Achab
did
manifold
Idolatri
.
Than
rose
Helye
the
prophet
,
and
seyde
to
Achab
,
that
in
.
iii.
yere
and
an
halfe
:
neither
rayne
neither
dewe
shal
be
.
After
thys
the
prophete
Helie
hyde
hymsilfe
,
in
the
stronde
of
Carith
ayens
Iordan
:
and
dranke
water
and
was
fedde
of
rauens
there
,
whyche
broughten
to
hym
breade
&
flech
,
in
the
euentyde
&
morowtide
.
And
after
that
the
stronde
was
dryed
vp
:
God
bade
Helie
go
in
to
Sarepta
of
Sidonies
,
&
there
he
was
fed
of
a
wydew
,
&
the
pot
of
mele
&
the
pot
of
oyle
failed
not
to
the
wide
we
,
til
God
yafe
rain
on
the
erth
.
Than
Heli
reised
to
life
the
dead
childe
of
a
wōman
:
at
whome
he
was
myche
susteyned
.
And
after
many
dais
God
bade
Heli
shew
him
to
Acab
that
God
shuld
yeue
rayne
on
the
lond
.
And
Helie
dyd
so
,
&
greate
hunger
was
in
Samari
.
Than
Helie
appearid
fyrst
to
Abdie
that
drede
God
:
and
fede
an
hundred
Prophets
of
God
,
whan
Iesa
bell
kyllyd
the
Prophets
of
God
.
And
Heli
swore
to
Abdie
by
the
lorde
of
oostes
:
that
he
wold
appeare
in
that
daie
to
Achab
Than
Achab
axid
Heli.
where
thou
arte
he
that
dyftur
blist
Israel
?
And
Helie
seide
.
Not
I
disturble
Israell
:
but
thou
and
the
house
of
thi
father
that
han
forsaken
goddis
heestis
,
&
han
sued
Baalam
:
han
disturblede
Israell
.
After
thys
,
the
prophet
Helie
conuictyd
by
an
open
miracle
eyght
hundred
and
fyftie
prophets
of
Bal
of
open
Idolatrie
:
and
killid
hem
al
wyth
helpe
of
the
puple
that
bileuid
to
God
,
for
the
greate
miracle
.
And
after
this
God
sent
great
taine
,
&
Helie
ran
befor
Achab
to
the
citti
of
Israel
.
After
thes
things
Helie
fled
for
drede
of
Iesabell
:
the
manacide
to
●…lee
him
.
And
whan
he
had
fled
into
deserte
by
the
iurney
of
a
daie
:
he
axed
of
God
to
die
.
And
whan
he
slept
:
an
An
gel
bade
him
rise
&
eate
bread
,
baken
vnder
ashis
&
drink
water
,
&
he
yede
in
the
strength
of
the
meat
.
xl
.
daies
&
.
xl
.
nightis
:
tilto
Oreb
the
hyll
of
God
.
And
whan
he
was
hid
ther
in
a
den
,
&
seid
that
he
was
left
alone
a
prophet
of
the
lord
,
&
thei
soughten
to
slee
hym
:
God
bad
hym
go
to
Damaske
&
anoynt
Asael
kyng
on
Sirie
,
&
anoint
Hieu
king
on
Israel
,
&
anointe
Elise
prophet
for
him
.
And
these
thre
shulden
do
vengeance
on
trespassours
:
&
flee
hem
.
And
god
left
to
himsilfe
.
vii
.
M
of
men
of
Israel
:
whose
knees
weren
not
bowed
bifor
Baal
.
Than
it
suith
how
Elise
suid
Heli.
After
thes
thingis
,
king
Achab
had
.
ii
.
greate
meruelous
victoris
ayens
Benadab
king
of
Sirie
:
for
he
blasphemed
God
of
Israel
.
And
for
king
Achab
did
false
merci
&
kilid
not
this
blasphemer
Be
nadab
whome
God
bitoke
into
his
hondis
:
god
sent
a
prophete
to
Achab
&
te●…d
thus
.
For
thou
suffridst
a
man
worthi
the
death
to
go
fro
thine
honde
:
thi
lyfe
shall
be
for
hys
lyfe
,
&
thy
puple
shal
be
for
his
puple
.
Aftirward
Iesabel
the
Quene
made
Naboth
to
be
stonid
to
deth
bi
false
witnes
&
assent
of
Achab
:
for
he
nolde
chaung
neither
sel
his
viner
to
the
Kyng
.
And
whan
Achab
yede
downe
to
take
possession
of
this
viner
,
god
bad
Heli
mete
him
,
&
seie
thus
.
Thou
hast
slaine
&
hast
ta
kēpossessiō
.
The
lord
seith
thes
thingis
.
In
this
place
wherin
dogs
likidē
the
blud
of
Naboth
:
thei
shulen
ly●…
also
thi
blud
.
And
Achab
seid
to
Helie
.
Where
hast
y●
founden
me
thine
enimy
?
And
Heli
seid
.
I
haue
founde
:
for
●…
arte
solde
to
do
iuil
in
gods
syght
.
Therfore
God
shal
distry
&
slee
eche
man
of
the
house
of
Achab
,
and
yeue
hys
house
as
the
house
of
Iero
boam
and
as
the
house
of
Basa
.
For
Achab
terred
God
to
wrath
:
&
made
Israel
to
do
syn
.
Also
doggis
shulen
eate
Iesabel
in
the
field
of
Israel
.
If
Achab
dye
in
the
Citie
:
doggis
shulen
eate
hym
.
If
he
die
in
the
fielde
byrdis
of
the
eyre
shulen
eate
him
.
None
other
was
suche
,
as
was
Achab
that
was
seld
to
do
euil
bifore
God
.
For
whi
,
Iesabell
hys
wyfe
excitid
hym
and
he
dyd
abomynable
Idolatrye
Than
Achab
dyd
ful
great
penaunce
and
was
mekyd
byfore
God
.
Therfore
God
brought
not
in
this
euyle
in
hys
dayes
:
but
in
the
daies
of
his
sonne
.
In
the
thyrde
yere
after
these
thynges
:
about
iiii
.
C.
Prophetes
of
Baal
,
coūceleden
Achab
,
to
make
warre
ayens
the
Kyng
of
Sirie
:
for
a
Citie
clepyd
Ramoth
of
Galaade
and
●…ihighten
victorie
&
prosperitie
to
Achab.
But
Michee
oo
prophet
of
God
telde
to
Achabe
in
goddis
name
:
that
the
spirit
of
leasings
disceyued
hym
bi
hys
false
prophets
,
&
that
Achab
shuld
be
slayne
in
the
batteile
,
&
so
it
befeld
in
dede
.
But
Miche
was
dispisid
&
beaten
of
the
false
prophets
,
&
was
prisoned
purposed
to
be
slaine
of
the
King
,
whan
he
came
ayene
in
peace
.
And
Kyng
Iosaphat
a
good
man
:
was
in
this
battile
with
curssid
Achab.
But
Achab
was
slain
and
doggis
lycked
his
blude
:
&
Iosaphat
was
sauyd
by
goddis
helpe
.
Than
roos
Ocosias
King
of
Israel
for
Achab
hys
father
:
and
Ocosias
worshipid
Baal
,
and
terrid
God
to
Ire
by
al
thyngis
whych
his
father
had
do
.
This
proces
of
the
.
iii.
bo●…e
of
kingis
,
stulde
styr
lords
and
kyngs
to
be
mercyful
and
pytuouse
on
here
sugets
,
that
trespassen
a
yens
hem
,
&
in
al
things
eschew
Idelnes
,
lecheri
treason
,
Idolatrie
,
and
fals
councelouris
and
vnwyst
,
and
euer
dystrye
synne
,
&
take
counsel
at
holi
scriptur
and
trwe
prophetis
,
and
trist
not
to
false
prophets
,
be
they
neuer
so
manie
,
and
crie
faste
ayens
one
,
eyther
fewe
tru
men
,
¶
The.
vi
.
chapiter
THe
.
iiii
.
boke
of
kingis
tellyth
in
generall
,
howe
the
rewme
of
Israell
and
the
rewm
of
Iuda
,
weren
conquerid
of
hethen
men
:
for
mani
sins
whichthei
didden
a
yens
God
&
men
,
and
weren
obstinat
&
didden
not
frutful
penaunce
in
due
tyme
.
First
it
telith
inspecial
,
howe
the
wicked
Kyng
Ocosias
,
sent
to
take
counsel
at
Belzebub
:
where
he
myght
liue
and
●…kyuer
of
hys
syknes
.
Therfore
God
sent
Helie
the
prophete
to
tel
to
hym
:
that
he
shuld
dye
&
not
go
downe
of
his
bed
.
Than
this
King
sente
to
Helie
a
prince
on
.
l.
men
,
and
fiftie
▪
men
with
hym
:
to
clepe
Heli
to
the
Kyng
.
And
fiere
came
doune
fro
heauen
and
deuoured
this
prince
and
fifti
men
that
weren
wyth
hym
:
for
in
scorne
they
clepidden
Helie
the
man
of
God
.
And
in
lyke
maner
fyre
deuoured
an
other
prince
and
fiftie
men
with
him
.
The
thyrdde
prince
and
hys
fyftie
that
mekid
hem
to
God
&
to
the
prophet
:
weren
sauyd
on
lyue
.
And
God
bade
Heli
go
downe
with
hem
to
the
Kyng
and
repreue
hyme
of
hys
synne
:
&
tel
to
the
kynge
hym
sylfe
,
that
he
shall
die
,
and
go
not
downe
of
his
bedde
.
After
this
the
prophet
Helie
should
be
rauishid
awey
fro
erth
,
and
Elise
knew
this
,
&
sued
him
in
eche
place
,
tilto
the
rauishing
.
And
Helie
smote
wyth
his
mantell
the
waters
of
Iordan
:
and
tho
weren
departed
therby
:
and
Helie
and
Elise
yeden
ouir
bi
the
drye
bottome
therof
.
Than
Helie
was
rauished
in
a
chair
of
fiere
fro
Elise
:
and
stied
bi
a
whirlwynd
into
heauen
.
And
the
double
sprite
of
Helie
rested
on
Elise
.
And
wyth
the
●…ntyl
▪
of
Helie
he
smot
●…wise
the
waters
of
Iordan
,
and
in
the
seconde
tyme
tho
weren
departed
&
Elise
passed
ouer
:
Afterwarde
Elise
dweled
in
Ierico
:
&
healed
the
waters
from
bitternes
&
barennes
bi
putting
of
salt
in
the
watir
.
Than
Elise
stighid
into
Bethell
&
as
he
stighid
bi
the
weie
:
little
children
yeden
out
of
the
citie
,
&
seiden
to
hym
in
scorne
.
Thou
ballard
stigh
vp
.
And
he
curssed
hem
in
the
name
of
God
:
&
tweie
beeres
yeden
out
of
the
foreste
:
&
torenten
of
hem
.
xlii
.
children
.
After
these
thyngis
,
Ioram
the
Kynge
of
Israel
,
and
Iosaphat
the
Kynge
of
Iuda
,
&
also
the
thredde
Kynge
that
was
Kynge
of
Edome
:
weren
in
deserte
&
hadden
no
water
,
and
weren
in
poynte
of
peryshinge
.
These
three
Kyngis
camen
to
Elise
for
help
:
and
by
spiryte
of
prophecie
he
bade
hem
make
dichis
,
and
they
sighen
neither
wynde
neyther
rayne
,
and
the
boune
of
dyches
was
filled
of
waters
.
And
he
before
seyde
,
that
God
should
betake
Moab
into
the
hondis
of
these
Kyngis
:
&
they
shulden
distrie
cities
and
fyeldes
and
trees
,
and
thus
it
was
done
in
dede
.
Also
Elise
multiplyed
a
lyttle
oyle
:
and
made
a
pore
wydowe
to
fyl
many
vessels
therof
,
and
bade
hyr
paye
hyr
dettes
wyth
some
therof
,
and
that
she
and
hir
sonns
shulden
liue
by
the
residue
therof
.
After
ward
Elise
beforseid
to
a
good
woman
,
that
her
berwed
him
frely
&
largly
:
that
she
shoulde
conceiue
a
sonne
And
whan
Elise
knewe
that
this
sonne
was
deade
:
he
sent
his
seruaunt
Gihezi
wyth
hys
stafe
to
reise
hym
and
neyther
voyce
nor
sense
was
in
the
childe
.
Than
Elise
entred
into
a
closet
where
the
chyld
laie
deade
:
&
preied
to
God
and
laye
on
the
chyld
,
and
leyde
hys
mouthe
to
the
mouthe
of
the
child
&
his
hondis
on
the
chylds
hondes
.
And
the
chyld
yoxyd
seue●…
siethis
,
and
opened
his
ien
:
and
〈◊〉
bit
oke
the
chyld
quicke
to
his
mothir
.
And
Elise
,
whan
hunge●…
was
in
Galgal
a
:
healed
the
pot
of
noyful
meate
by
sendinge
in
of
mele
,
that
no
more
byt
ternes
was
in
the
meate
:
Than
Elise
made
a
little
breade
to
suffyce
to
an
hundride
men
:
and
theye
leften
reliefes
●…han
the
Kynge
of
Sirie
sente
let●…ers
to
the
Kynge
of
Israell
that
he
shoulde
cure
Naaman
of
his
lepre
,
&
the
Kynge
of
Israell
torent
his
clothes
for
sorow
:
Elise
bade
that
Naaman
should
be
waisshen
.
vii
.
sithis
in
the
water
of
Iordan
,
and
so
he
shulde
be
cured
.
And
thus
it
was
don
in
dede
.
Than
Naaman
knowlechyd
,
that
none
other
God
is
in
all
earth
:
no
but
onli
the
God
of
Israel
And
Elise
toke
no
yeft
,
yea
freli
pro
ferrid
and
preased
of
Naaman
.
Than
Gihezie
ran
after
Naaman
,
vnwitting
,
either
not
consenting
his
master
,
and
made
a
leesinge
,
that
Elise
sent
●…o
hym
:
that
he
shoulde
yeue
a
talent
of
siluer
,
&
double
chaungyng
clothes
to
tweie
young
men
of
the
sonnes
of
prophetis
.
And
Naaman
constraynid
hyme
to
take
the
duble
that
he
axed
and
ordeinid
twey
chyldren
to
beare
it
before
hym
.
But
hereof
Elise
seyd
,
that
the
Lepre
of
Naaman
shoulde
cleue
to
Gihezi
and
to
his
sede
withouten
ende
.
And
Gihezi
yede
out
fro
Elise
:
and
was
a
mesel
as
snowe
.
Whan
the
sonnes
of
prophets
yeden
to
the
wode
to
hew
downe
wode
to
bylde
places
for
hem
to
dwell
in
:
the
Irun
of
an
axe
fel
doune
into
the
watir
And
Elise
castid
downe
the
tre
,
either
helue
:
and
the
Irū
houide
,
and
was
taken
vp
therbi
.
Whan
the
Kyng
of
Sirie
,
set
bushme
▪
●…ts
priuily
ayens
the
Kyng
of
Israell
:
Elise
warned
the
King
of
Israel
therof
.
And
whan
it
was
certified
to
the
King
of
Sirie
,
that
Elise
tolde
his
priuyties
to
the
Kyng
of
Israel
:
the
Kynge
of
Sirie
sent
a
grete
multitud
of
his
ooste
to
take
Elise
.
And
whan
the
oste
compassid
the
Citie
Doatim
,
wherin
Elise
was
:
God
made
thys
oost
blynde
at
the
praier
of
Elise
.
And
so
he
ledde
hem
into
the
myddys
of
Samarie
.
And
when
the
Kyng
of
Israel
would
siea
hem
:
Elise
seide
naye
.
But
make
redie
a
feaste
to
hem
,
and
let
hem
go
in
peace
to
hir
Lorde
.
And
whan
ful
stronge
hunger
was
in
Samarie
,
that
women
eaten
her
owne
children
:
oo
woman
axid
dome
of
the
king
ayens
an
other
womman
,
that
would
not
by
couenaunt
bringe
forth
hir
childe
to
be
eaten
,
whan
they
hadden
eaten
the
chyld
of
the
fyrst
womman
.
Than
the
kynge
that
weride
the
heyre
next
hys
bodye
:
to
rente
hys
clothys
for
sorowe
,
and
swore
stronglie
,
that
in
that
daye
he
would
gird
of
the
head
of
Elise
.
E●…ise
bifore
knew
the
coming
of
this
messenger
todo
this
dede
&
bade
men
close
the
dore
,
&
suffer
not
him
to
enter
,
for
his
lord
cometh
anone
after
hyme
,
to
reuoke
hys
oothe
and
sentence
.
Than
Elise
seide
in
goddis
name
that
tomorow
in
thys
tyme
,
a
bushel
of
wheat
floure
shal
be
for
oo
statere
,
that
is
a
lyttle
quantetie
of
money
,
as
it
were
a
peny
:
and
two
bushels
of
barlie
for
oo
statere
in
the
yate
of
Samarie
.
And
Elise
seide
to
a
greate
duike
,
that
bileuid
not
this
word
:
thou
shalt
se
it
wyth
thine
ien
and
shalte
not
eate
therof
.
And
thus
it
was
in
dede
.
For
whan
the
oost
of
Sirie
fled
by
nyght
for
dreade
that
God
made
amonge
hem
:
they
leften
al
here
goodis
and
fledden
nakyd
,
&
couetidē
onli
to
saue
here
liues
.
And
whan
a
bushell
of
whete
flour
was
solde
on
the
morowe
for
oo
statere
:
the
kyng
made
that
noble
Duike
kepar
at
the
yate
,
and
t●…e
compani
trade
hym
to
death
,
as
Elise
before
seide
.
Also
Elise
spake
to
the
woman
▪
whos
sonne
he
made
to
lyue
:
and
bade
hyr
and
hir
house
go
a
pylgrimag
either
strange
lond
,
where
euer
she
founde
couenable
.
For
God
shal
bring
strong
hunger
on
the
londe
seuen
yere
.
And
at
the.
vii
.
yeres
ende
:
the
kyng
restorid
to
hir
al
hir
things
,
&
al
the
rentes
of
hir
fields
in
the
time
of
hir
absence
.
Benadab
kynge
of
Sirie
,
sent
Asael
to
Elise
:
to
enquire
where
this
king
myght
recouer
of
hys
sycknes
.
And
God
shewed
to
Elise
:
that
Benadab
should
die
.
And
Elise
wepte
ful
sore
whan
he
sigh
Asael
:
for
God
shewed
to
him
that
Asael
shulde
be
kynge
of
Sirie
,
&
do
mani
euilles
to
the
chyldren
of
Israell
.
Br●…n
of
her
stronge
cites
:
and
slea
by
swerde
the
younge
men
of
hem
,
and
hurle
the
little
children
on
hem
,
and
kerue
women
with
chylde
.
Ioram
the
sonne
of
Iosaphat
dyd
euel
in
goddis
syght
:
as
the
house
of
Achab
did
,
for
the
daughter
of
Achab
was
hys
wife
.
But
God
nolde
distrie
Iuda
for
Dauid
his
seruant
:
as
he
bihyght
to
hym
,
to
yeue
a
lanterne
to
hym
and
to
hys
sonnes
in
al
daies
.
After
these
thingis
Elise
bad
one
of
the
sonnes
of
prophets
anoynt
Hieu
into
Kyng
of
Israell
:
and
seye
to
hym
.
Thou
shalt
distrie
the
house
of
Achab
,
and
God
shall
make
it
as
the
house
of
Ieroboam
.
And
doggis
shulen
e●…te
Iesabell
in
the
fyelde
of
Israel
:
and
none
shal
birye
hir
.
And
Hieu
kylled
Ioram
Kyng
of
Israel
&
Ocosias
king
of
Iuda
,
&
Iesabell
the
curssed
quen
.
And
dogs
eaten
the
flesh
of
Iesabel
:
hir
flesh
was
a
tord
on
the
face
of
the
earthe
.
Than
Hieu
made
.
lxx
.
sones
of
Achab
to
be
slain
of
her
Kepers
and
noryshers
:
and
he
kylled
.
xlii
.
men
brithern
of
Ocosias
And
after
this
doynge
Hieu
feyned
him
to
worship
Baall
,
more
then
Achab
did
.
And
bi
this
feining
he
gadrid
togider
al
prophetis
&
priestis
&
seruants
of
Baal
,
in
the
temple
of
Bal
&
killed
hem
al
:
And
casted
out
of
the
temple
of
Baal
:
his
Image
,
&
brent
it
&
drofe
yt
into
duste
.
And
dystryed
the
house
of
Baal
:
&
made
gongis
for
it
.
And
so
Hieu
dyd
aweye
Baal
fro
Israell
.
Nethelesse
Hieu
yede
not
a
weye
fro
the
synnys
of
Ieroboam
:
neyther
forsoke
gold●…n
calues
that
weren
in
Bethel
and
Dan
▪
But
for
Hieu
dyde
thys
vengeaunce
ayens
the
house
of
Achab
:
God
saide
,
that
hys
sonnes
to
the.
iiii
.
generacyon
shulen
syt
on
the
tron
of
Israel
.
Than
Athalia
the
mother
of
Ocosias
:
whan
hir
sonne
was
deade
,
kylede
al
the
blude
of
the
kyng
,
&
reygned
.
vi
.
yere
.
But
Ioas
the
sun
of
Ocosias
kynge
was
kept
preuili
.
vi
.
yere
in
the
temple
of
god
&
in
the
vii
.
yere
he
was
made
king
by
help
of
Ioiada
the
greate
priest
,
&
Athalia
was
slaine
.
Therfore
Ioiada
made
a
bonde
of
peace
betwix
God
&
the
kynge
&
the
puple
:
that
it
shulde
be
the
puple
of
God
.
And
the
puple
distried
the
auters
of
Baal
,
and
altobrake
his
Imagis
:
&
kylliden
Mathan
the
prieste
of
Baall
bifore
the
auter
.
This
Ioas
began
to
reygne
whan
he
was
vii
.
yere
olde
:
and
he
reignyd
.
xl
.
yere
in
Ierusalem
,
and
dyd
rightfulnes
bifore
God
in
al
the
dayes
,
in
whych
Ioiada
the
prieste
taught
hym
.
And
Ioas
bade
priestis
take
all
the
money
that
was
offered
for
price
of
soulis
and
by
free
wyll
:
to
make
reparation
of
the
temple
.
And
for
priestis
weren
necligent
in
thys
reparation
:
Ioas
the
Kyng
bade
priestis
yelde
this
money
to
reparation
,
&
take
it
no
more
.
And
the
chaunceller
of
the
Kyng
&
the
Bishop
Ioiada
,
heeldidē
out
of
the
arcke
monei
:
&
yauen
it
into
the
hond
of
mastirs
&
workmen
&
thei
spēdidē
it
wel
in
this
office
&
necessari
reparation
:
&
maden
no
rekēing
to
souereins
,
but
tretidē
this
monei
in
feith
either
good
conscience
.
For
as
myche
as
Asaell
Kynge
of
Sirie
came
wyth
hys
ooste
,
to
warre
ayens
Ierusalem
:
Ioas
kynge
of
Iuda
toke
all
thyngis
whych
fathers
hadden
hale
wed
and
which
he
had
offred
:
&
al
the
siluer
that
might
be
founden
in
the
treasouris
of
the
temple
of
God
,
and
in
the
paleise
of
the
Kyng
,
&
sent
al
to
Asael
kyng
of
Sirie
,
and
he
yede
a
wei
fro
Ierusalem
.
The
seruauntes
of
Ioas
sworen
togidir
,
&
kylliden
hym
:
and
Amasias
hys
sonne
reignid
for
hym
.
Ioachas
the
sonne
of
Hieu
reignid
on
Israel
:
and
dyd
iuill
,
as
Ieroboam
dyd
.
Therfore
god
bitoke
Israel
into
the
hondis
of
Asael
kyng
of
Sirie
,
and
of
Benadab
his
son
al
daies
,
that
there
were
not
lefte
to
Ioachas
of
all
the
puple
of
Israell
,
no
but
fiue
hundrid
horsmen
,
and
te●…
charis
,
and.
x.
M.
of
fotemen
.
Than
Ioachas
bisought
God
:
and
he
yafe
a
sanioure
to
Isra
ell
,
and
Israel
was
deliuerid
fro
the
honde
of
the
kyng
of
Sirie
.
Than
Elise
felde
into
great
siknes
:
by
which
he
was
deade
.
And
whan
Ioas
kyng
of
Israell
came
to
hym
and
wepte
:
Elise
bade
hym
bryng
a
bowe
and
arrowis
,
and
bade
him
set
his
hond
on
the
bowe
.
And
Elise
set
his
hondis
on
the
kyngis
hondis
:
&
bade
him
shote
oute
at
the
easte
window
openid
.
And
Elise
seyd
.
Thys
is
the
arrow
of
Gods
helpe
ayens
Sirie
in
Apheth
,
til
thou
waste
it
.
Efte
Elise
bade
Ioas
smyte
the
earth
wyth
a
dart
.
And
whan
he
had
sinytten
thries
and
styntid
:
Elise
was
wroth
ayens
hym
,
and
seyd
.
If
thou
haddist
smitten
.
v.
sythis
,
or
.
vi
.
sythis
or
.
vii
.
sithis
:
thou
shuldist
haue
smitten
Siri
tilto
the
endynge
.
But
no
we
thou
shalt
sinyte
it
thryes
.
Elise
dyed
and
was
biried
.
And
whan
a
dead
body
was
byryed
in
the
sepulchre
of
Elise
:
the
man
liued
ayen
and
stod
on
hys
fete
.
Amasias
kyng
of
Iuda
reignid
.
ix
.
yere
:
and
dyd
ryghtfulnes
in
partie
,
but
not
as
Dauid
.
He
killyd
ten
.
M.
men
of
Edom
:
and
for
pryde
therof
,
he
terrid
the
kyng
of
Israel
to
war
.
And
Amasias
was
ouercommen
in
this
batteile
,
and
the
kyng
of
Israel
toke
him
prisoner
,
&
brake
the
walle
of
Ierusalem
by
.
iiii
.
C.
cubitis
.
And
the
kyng
of
Israel
toke
aweye
al
the
gold
&
siluer
,
&
all
the
vesseles
that
weren
founden
in
gods
house
:
and
in
the
tresouris
of
the
king
,
and
toke
pledgis
and
turnyd
ayene
into
Samarie
.
At
the
laste
the
men
of
Amasias
conspiriden
ayens
hym
:
and
he
fled
into
Lachis
,
and
they
senten
thydur
and
kylliden
hym
there
,
and
biriden
him
in
Ierusalem
with
his
fathers
.
And
Asarie
his
son
reignyd
for
hym
in
Ierusalem
.
L.
yere
.
He
dyd
ryghtfulnes
in
partie
:
as
Amasias
hys
fathir
dyd
,
and
God
smote
hym
wyth
lepre
,
tyll
into
the
daye
of
hys
death
.
And
Ioathas
hys
sonne
gouernid
the
paleis
:
and
demid
the
Puple
of
the
Londe
.
And
euer
the
Kyngis
of
Israell
dyden
iuyll
:
and
yeden
in
the
synnis
of
Ieroboam
.
And
in
the
dayes
of
Manaheu
kyng
of
Israell
:
Phull
the
Kyng
of
Assiriens
,
toke
greate
trybute
of
hym
,
to
make
Manaheu
strong
in
the
rewm
.
And
in
the
dayes
of
Phace
Kyng
of
Israell
,
that
dyd
iuill
in
Gods
sight
:
came
Teglathfalasar
Kynge
of
Assur
,
&
toke
many
placis
in
the
londe
of
Israell
.
And
he
toke
Galaad
,
and
Galile
and
al
the
lond
of
Neptalim
:
and
translatid
hem
into
Assiriens
.
Aftir
that
Achaz
reignyd
on
Iuda
xvi
.
yere
,
in
Ierusalem
,
and
yede
in
the
weyes
of
Kyngis
of
Israel
:
and
dyd
foule
Idolatrie
.
And
after
these
thyngis
Osee
the
Kynge
of
Israell
reygned
.
ix
.
yere
and
did
iuill
:
but
not
as
the
kingis
of
Israell
that
weren
bifore
hym
.
And
thys
Osee
was
made
tributarye
to
Salmanasar
Kynge
of
Assyryens
.
And
whanne
thys
Osee
woulde
be
Rebell
and
paye
not
tribute
to
Salmanasar
:
he
bisegi●…
Osee
and
prisoned
hym
,
and
bysegid
Samarie
thre
yere
and
toke
it
in
the
nynth
yere
of
Osee
,
&
translatyd
Israell
into
Assiriens
.
Than
the
scripture
rehersyth
many
great
synnis
of
the
puple
of
Israel
:
for
whych
they
weren
conquerid
and
driuen
oute
of
here
londe
.
Than
the
kyng
of
Assiriens
brought
puple
fro
Babilon
,
and
fro
many
other
heathen
contreis
,
and
settid
hem
in
the
cities
of
Samarie
:
for
the
chyldren
of
Israell
.
And
for
thys
puple
dred
not
God
:
he
sent
into
hem
Lions
that
kylliden
hem
.
Therfore
the
kyng
of
Assiriens
sent
thydir
oo
prieste
of
Israell
:
to
teach
hem
the
lawe
of
God
of
Israell
:
and
so
they
worshypyden
Godde
of
Israel
,
and
here
heathen
Gods
(
▪
togidyr
▪
)
¶
The.
vii
.
chapiter
.
EZethie
Kyng
of
Iuda
reignid
.
xxix
.
yere
,
and
did
good
byfore
God
,
by
all
thyngis
whyche
hys
father
Dauid
had
do
.
He
dystroyede
hygh
placis
and
alto
brake
I
magis
,
and
hewed
down
wodis
,
and
brake
the
serpent
of
bras
.
For
the
chyldren
of
Israell
brenten
incence
to
it
.
And
he
hopid
in
God
.
Therefore
of
all
the
kyngis
of
Iuda
was
none
like
hym
after
hym
but
neither
among
thes
kingis
that
weren
byfore
hym
.
And
in
the.
xiiii
.
yere
of
Ezechie
:
Senacherib
kynge
of
Assiriens
,
stied
to
al
wallyd
cities
of
Iuda
,
and
toke
tho
.
Than
Ezechie
yaf
to
him
al
the
siluer
that
was
foū
den
in
goddis
house
and
in
the
treasouris
of
the
k●…ng
:
for
he
should
go
awey
,
&
distrinot
Ierusalem
,
neither
Iudee
.
And
for
that
Senacherib
kept
not
couenant
:
Ezechie
rebelled
ayens
him
,
in
trist
of
gods
helpe
.
Than
Senacherib
sent
Rapsaces
with
strong
ofte
to
Ierusalem
to
blaspheme
God
,
&
make
that
puple
yeld
hem
to
him
for
dred
.
Than
Ezechie
torent
his
tlothes
for
sorow
&
was
hilid
with
a
sacke
&
entrid
into
gods
house
,
&
sent
the
high
priest
&
other
elde
inē
clothyd
wyth
sackes
,
to
the
prophet
Esai
that
he
shuld
prey
to
God
ayens
the
blaspemie
of
Assiriens
,
&
Esaie
seid
in
Gods
name
that
thei
shulden
not
dred
of
thes
words
of
Assiriens
.
For
God
shal
sende
a
sprit
to
Senacherib
&
he
shal
hear
a
mesenger
,
&
he
shal
turne
ayene
into
his
londe
:
and
God
shal
cast
him
downe
by
sworde
in
hys
londe
.
And
whan
Senacherib
wente
home
to
defende
his
lond
ayens
the
king
of
Ethiope
:
he
sent
blasphemous
letters
to
Ezechie
,
and
seide
.
That
his
God
might
not
deliuer
him
fro
his
hond
.
Therfore
God
confortid
Ezechie
by
the
prophet
Esaie
that
he
shuld
not
dread
Senacherib
.
For
Senacherib
shall
not
enter
into
Ierusalem
,
neither
finde
arrowe
into
it
,
neyther
occupie
it
,
neither
bisege
it
.
But
God
shal
deiende
and
saue
Ierusalem
,
for
hyme
selfe
and
for
Dauid
his
seruaunt
.
And
in
that
nyght
the
angell
of
God
kylled
in
the
tentes
of
Assirie●…s
:
an
hundred
thousand
,
&
.
lxxxv
.
thousande
,
And
in
the
morowtide
Senacherib
yede
into
his
londe
and
hys
owne
sonnys
kyllyden
hym
in
the
temple
of
hys
God
Nestarath
,
while
he
worshipyd
hys
God
Nestarath
.
After
thys
whan
Ezechie
was
sicke
to
the
death
:
Esai
seide
to
hym
in
Gods
name
,
dispose
thine
hous
,
for
thou
shalt
dye
&
not
liue
.
And
for
Ezechie
wepte
greatli
:
God
curid
him
and
made
him
go
into
the
temple
on
the
yde
daie
and
encreasyd
.
xv
.
yere
to
his
life
.
And
in
signe
herof
:
God
made
the
sunne
go
bakward
vi
.
x.
degrees
.
After
thys
doing
,
the
kyng
of
Babilon
sent
letters
by
messengeris
&
yeftes
to
Ezechie
And
by
pride
he
she
wed
al
his
treasours
and
Ieuels
to
the
messengers
.
Therfore
God
seid
bi
Esaie
to
him
That
daies
shulen
come
&
al
thingys
in
thyne
house
shulen
be
take
away
into
Babilon
.
And
Ezechie
seid
.
The
worde
of
God
is
good
:
onely
peace
and
trueth
be
in
my
daies
.
Aftir
Ezechie
,
Manasses
his
sonne
reigned
.
lv.
yere
in
Ierusaiem
,
&
did
greate
euil
in
goddis
syght
,
and
mich
Idolatrie
.
And
the
puple
of
Iuda
was
disceiued
in
Manasses
,
that
thei
diden
more
euill
then
heathen
men
,
whych
God
destried
fro
the
face
of
sonis
of
Israel
.
And
for
Manasses
dyd
thes
worst
abominacions
ouer
al
things
which
the
men
of
Amorreys
didden
and
he
shedde
ful
miche
innocent
blud
tyll
Ierusalem
was
fyllyd
tylto
the
mouthe
:
God
seyde
that
he
woulde
brynge
in
euilys
vpon
Ierusalem
&
Iuda
,
that
who
euer
heareth
,
boeth
his
eares
tingle
.
And
he
shal
do
awai
Ierusalem
:
as
tablys
on
borde
ben
wonte
to
be
done
awaye
.
But
God
shal
leaue
remnaunts
of
his
heritage
and
bitake
hem
in
the
honde
of
here
enimies
.
Manasses
dyede
and
was
biried
in
the
orchard
of
his
house
,
&
Amon
his
sonne
reigned
for
him
.
ii
.
yere
,
and
dyd
euil
as
his
father
dide
and
forsoke
God
and
seruyd
vncleanes
and
Idolis
as
his
father
dyd
,
&
worshipid
tho
.
And
his
seruauntes
settiden
treason
to
hym
:
and
killiden
hym
in
his
house
.
And
the
puple
of
the
londe
kylliden
al
men
that
hadden
conspirede
ayens
the
kynge
Amon
:
and
for
hym
they
ordeynyden
Iosie
hys
sonne
kynge
to
hem
.
Iosie
bygan
to
reigne
whan
he
was
.
viii
.
yere
elde
:
&
reignid
.
xxxi
.
yere
in
Ierusalem
.
And
he
dyd
that
,
that
was
plesant
bifore
God
,
&
yede
by
all
the
weys
of
Dauid
his
fathir
.
In
the
.
xviii
.
yere
of
Iosie
,
he
hadde
visines
,
that
the
temple
of
God
were
repareilid
.
And
whan
the
boke
of
the
lawe
was
reade
bifore
the
kyng
:
he
torente
his
clothis
,
and
sent
solemne
messangers
to
take
councel
at
God
for
hymsilfe
and
his
rewine
.
For
he
seide
,
that
great
vengeaunce
of
God
is
kinled
ayens
vs
:
for
our
fathers
herden
not
the
words
of
this
boke
,
to
do
al
that
is
written
to
vs
.
And
God
seid
by
the
prophetesse
Olda
,
the
wife
of
Selum
.
I
shall
bryng
euiles
on
thys
place
and
on
the
dwellers
therof
al
the
wordis
of
the
lawe
whych
Iosie
readde
:
for
theye
forsoken
me
and
maden
sacrifice
to
alien
gods
.
And
for
thou
Iosie
heardist
the
words
of
the
boke
,
and
thine
herte
was
aferde
,
&
thou
were
mekid
afore
me
&
torenteste
thy
clothes
and
weptest
before
me
,
therfor
thou
shalt
dye
in
peace
,
that
thyne
eyen
se
not
all
these
euylys
,
whyche
I
shall
bring
in
on
this
place
.
Than
Iosi
gadrid
to
him
al
the
olde
men
of
Iuda
&
Ierusalem
,
&
the
Kyng
stied
into
the
temple
of
God
,
&
all
men
of
Iuda
,
&
al
men
that
dwelliden
in
Ierusalem
prophets
&
prists
&
al
the
puple
flied
with
him
.
And
he
red
to
al
men
herynge
,
al
the
wordis
of
the
boke
of
couenaunte
of
the
lord
:
that
was
foundun
in
the
house
of
the
lorde
.
And
the
kyng
stoode
on
the
grees
&
smote
couenaunt
bifore
the
lorde
,
that
they
shulden
go
after
the
lorde
and
kepe
al
hys
hestys
and
wytnessingis
and
ceremonies
in
all
the
herte
,
and
in
al
the
soule
:
and
the
puple
assentyd
to
the
couenant
.
And
the
Kynge
bad
the
bishop
and
priests
and
porteris
caste
out
of
Goddis
temple
:
all
vessellis
that
weren
made
to
Baall
and
to
other
Idolis
.
And
he
brente
tho
oute
of
Ierusalem
in
the
valei
of
Cedron
:
and
bare
the
dust
of
tho
into
Bethell
.
And
he
distried
Idolatours
&
the
houses
of
lechours
that
weren
in
the
house
of
God
And
he
destryed
auteris
and
hygh
places
of
Idoles
and
Imagis
:
&
toke
oute
bonis
of
sepulchris
,
and
brent
tho
on
the
auter
in
Bethell
,
that
seruiden
to
Idolatrie
.
Also
Iosie
dyde
awey
all
temples
of
hie
placis
that
weren
in
the
cite
of
Samarie
,
which
the
kingis
of
Israel
hadden
made
to
terrie
the
Lorde
to
wrath
:
&
he
dyd
●…o
tho
as
he
had
do
in
Bethel
.
And
he
killyd
the
priestis
of
high
placis
:
which
prests
weren
ther
ouer
the
auteris
.
And
he
brente
mens
bonis
of
tho
on
the
auters
.
And
Iosie
made
the
puple
to
make
a
solempne
paske
.
And
suche
paske
was
not
made
fro
the
dayes
of
iudgys
and
al
kyngis
of
Israell
and
Iuda
:
as
was
this
pask
made
in
the
xviii
.
yere
of
Iosie
.
And
he
did
away
spirites
spekinge
in
menis
wombis
:
and
false
diuinou●…is
and
figuris
of
Idolis
,
and
vncleanessis
&
abominaciouns
that
weren
in
the
londe
,
of
Iuda
and
of
Ierusalem
.
No
Kynge
bifore
hym
neyther
after
hym
was
lyke
hym
:
that
turned
ayene
to
God
in
al
his
hert
&
in
al
his
soule
and
in
al
hys
vertue
,
by
al
the
law
of
Moses
.
Nethelesse
,
for
the
orrible
sinnis
of
Iuda
:
God
turned
not
aweye
fro
his
strong
vengeaunce
▪
but
seide
that
he
would
take
aweye
Iuda
fro
hys
face
,
as
he
dyde
aweye
Israel
,
&
that
he
would
caste
aweye
the
citie
of
Ierusalem
whych
he
chees
.
Therfore
Pharao
Necao
king
of
Egipt
,
kilid
Iosia
in
Magedo
,
&
Ioathas
hys
sonne
was
made
King
for
his
father
and
he
reygned
thre
monthis
in
Ierusalem
and
dyd
euyll
byfore
God
,
by
al
thingis
the
whych
his
fathers
hadē
do
.
And
this
Pharao
prisonid
him
in
Reblatha
:
and
toke
tribut
of
the
londe
,
an
hundrede
Talentys
of
syluer
,
and
oo
talente
of
golde
.
And
this
Pharao
made
kyng
,
Eliachym
the
sonne
of
Iosie
,
&
turnede
hys
name
Ioachim
.
And
this
Pharao
led
Ioachas
into
Egipt
:
And
Ioachim
did
euil
bifore
God
,
by
al
things
which
his
fadirs
hadden
do
.
And
this
Ioachym
was
made
seruant
.
iii.
yere
to
Nabugodouosor
Kyng
of
Babilon
.
And
eft
he
rebellid
ayens
▪
Nabugodonosor
.
And
God
sent
theuis
of
Cal
des
,
&
theuis
of
Sirie
,
and
theuis
of
Moab
,
&
theuis
of
the
sonnes
of
Amon
,
into
Iuda
:
that
he
shulo
distrie
it
,
as
he
spake
by
his
Prophetis
,
&
speciallie
for
the
sinis
of
Manasses
.
This
Ioachim
dyed
&
his
sonne
Ioakim
reigned
.
iii.
monthis
in
Ierusalem
:
&
dyd
euil
bifore
God
,
as
his
fathers
hadden
do
.
In
the
time
,
the
seruantis
of
Nabugodonosor
,
stidē
to
Ierusalem
:
and
bisegidē
it
&
Ioachim
&
his
mother
.
Than
Nabugodonosor
came
to
Ierusalem
to
ouircume
it
,
&
Ioachym
&
his
mother
&
hys
seruantis
&
princis
&
chaumberlaines
yeden
out
to
Nabugodonosor
▪
&
he
translatid
Ioachim
&
hys
oste
ten
▪
M.
&
manie
craftie
men
into
Babilon
:
&
toke
al
the
treasuris
of
gods
house
&
of
the
kingis
house
,
and
beat
to
gydir
al
the
golden
vesels
whych
Kyng
Solomon
had
made
in
the
temple
.
And
king
Nabugodonosor
ordeynid
Mathanie
the
brother
of
Iosie
to
be
king
:
&
clepid
him
Sedechie
.
And
he
reignid
.
xi
.
yere
in
Ierusalem
:
&
did
iuil
bifore
God
bi
al
thingis
that
Ioachym
had
do
,
for
God
was
wroth
ayens
Ierusalem
&
Iuda
,
tyl
he
casted
hem
awei
fro
his
face
.
And
Sedechi
yed
awei
fro
the
king
of
Babilon
.
And
in
the.
ix
.
yere
of
Sedechie
:
Nabugodonosor
came
wyth
al
his
oste
,
&
bisegid
Ierusalem
,
tillto
the.
xi
.
yere
of
Sedechie
:
&
than
the
citie
was
broken
,
&
Sedechie
&
hys
warriours
fledden
by
night
,
&
the
ost
of
Caldeis
pursuid
&
token
him
,
and
brought
him
to
Nabugodonosor
in
Reblatha
,
&
Nabugodonosor
spake
dome
with
Sedechi
&
kilio
his
sōis
bifore
him
,
and
puttid
out
his
iyen
,
and
bounde
hym
wyth
chaynis
and
broughte
hym
into
Babilon
.
Than
Nabusardan
(
the
prynce
of
the
oste
)
brent
gods
house
&
the
kingis
house
and
the
houses
of
Ierusalem
,
&
distryed
the
wallis
of
Ierusalem
in
compas
.
And
he
translatid
into
Babylon
:
the
residue
puple
of
Iuda
(
outaken
a
fewe
pore
men
,
vynetillars
&
earthtilars
)
and
he
brake
all
the
brasen
vessellis
&
of
metal
in
the
temple
,
and
bare
the
metall
into
Babilon
.
Than
Nabugodonosor
made
Godolie
to
be
soueraine
of
the
puple
,
lefte
in
the
lond
of
Iuda
.
And
than
all
the
Dukis
of
Knyghtis
camen
to
Godolie
in
Maspha
:
&
he
made
an
oth
to
hem
,
that
it
shulde
be
wel
to
hem
,
if
they
wolden
serue
the
Kynge
of
Babylon
.
And
Ismael
,
that
was
of
the
kings
bloude
:
kyllyd
Godolie
and
Iewis
and
Caldeis
that
weren
wyth
hym
,
and
all
the
puple
of
Iuda
&
the
princis
of
Knightis
:
&
fleden
into
Egypt
for
dred
of
Caldeis
.
At
the
last
,
Euilmeradach
Kynge
of
Babilon
,
reised
Ioachim
fro
prison
,
and
settid
hys
trone
abou●…
the
trone
of
other
kings
that
were
wyth
hym
in
Babylon
.
And
Ioachim
eate
euer
bread
in
the
Kyngis
syghte
of
Babylon
in
all
the
dayes
of
his
lyfe
.
Thys
processe
of
Godolie
,
&
that
suith
:
is
tolde
largelier
in
the
●…nde
of
Ieremi
:
than
here
in
the
ende
of
kings
.
Thys
processe
of
the
fourhe
boke
of
kyngis
:
shuld
stir
al
men
,
and
namely
kyngis
and
lordis
,
forto
hate
syn
,
as
Idolatrie
&
couetise
,
&
breakyng
of
goddis
heestis
:
for
which
the
puple
of
Israell
and
the
puple
of
Iuda
was
thus
punishid
and
conquerid
of
heathen
men
.
And
forto
loue
vertues
and
kepyng
of
Gods
heestis
,
and
distriyng
of
open
synis
,
for
which
many
good
kyngis
(
as
Ezechie
,
Iosie
,
and
many
other
hadden
great
thanke
and
succour
of
God
in
many
greate
perylis
,
&
blysse
of
heauen
wythout●…
ende
.
God
for
his
merci
graunte
this
blisse
to
vs
Amen
.
The.
viii
.
chapiter
THe
bokis
of
Paralipe
menon
ben
ful
necessary
:
to
vnderstond
the
storis
of
the
old
Testament
:
in
so
myche
as
Ierome
seith
,
that
if
a
man
without
these
bokis
wold
presume
to
haue
the
kuning
of
holi
scripturs
:
he
scornith
him
silfe
,
that
is
disceiuith
&
makith
him
silfe
worthy
to
be
scornid
.
For
why
,
the
storis
left
out
in
the
bokis
of
Ryngis
,
ben
touchid
in
these
bokis
:
&
vnnoūbrable
questions
of
the
gospel
been
declarid
bi
these
bokis
.
The.
i.
boke
of
Paralipomenon
,
telith
in
the
bigin
yng
,
the
generations
from
Adam
tilto
Iacob
:
&
so
forth
tilto
Dauid
,
&
t●…
chith
shortly
many
storis
of
Saul
&
of
Dauid
&
of
Solomon
,
in
the
ende
therof
.
And
howe
Dauid
ordeynyd
priestis
&
dekins
in
her
office
:
&
how
&
by
what
seruice
they
shulen
serue
God
.
The
biginyng
of
the.
ii
.
boke
of
Paralipomenon
,
tellith
how
Solomon
axid
of
God
wisdome
to
deme
his
puple
:
&
god
yafe
to
him
wisdome
and
kūyng
&
riches
&
glorie
,
so
that
none
among
kyngis
either
bifore
either
after
him
:
was
like
to
him
.
Than
is
told
how
Solomon
byldid
the
temple
of
Ierusalem
:
&
an
house
to
him
silfe
.
After
this
the
quene
of
Saba
came
to
Solomon
,
&
brought
mani
preciouse
●…e
welis
to
him
:
&
preuid
his
kūing
&
wisdome
in
many
thyngis
.
And
all
the
Kyngis
of
the
earth
desyriden
to
se
the
face
of
Solomon
:
forto
heare
the
wisdome
of
god
which
he
had
yo●…ū
in
his
herte
.
After
that
it
suith
howe
Roboam
departid
the
ten
linagis
fro
the
house
of
Dauid
.
And
by
hys
pryde
and
hard
wordes
,
and
by
the
●…uyng
of
the
councell
of
yonge
men
,
and
whan
the
rewme
of
Iuda
was
confirmid
to
him
:
he
forsoke
the
lawe
of
Godde
,
and
all
Israell
dydde
the
same
wych
hym
.
Therfor
God
sent
the
king
of
Egipt
with
vnnoūbrable
puple
on
hem
,
&
toke
awaye
the
treasours
of
goddis
house
and
of
the
kyngis
house
.
And
theye
seruiden
the
king
of
Egipt
,
to
know
the
diuersytie
of
goddis
setuice
,
and
of
the
seruise
of
the
rewme
of
londis
And
after
him
reigned
Abia
his
son
and
he
treatyd
wysly
wyth
the
puple
of
Israell
:
that
they
shulden
forsake
here
synne
,
&
warre
not
ayens
goddis
puple
and
the
rewme
of
Iuda
.
And
for
they
wolden
proudli
warre
ayens
the
rewme
of
Iuda
&
ayens
this
counsel
of
Abia
▪
he
killed
of
hem
by
goddis
helpe
.
v.
hundrid
thousand
of
stronge
men
.
Afer
thys
councel
Abia
died
:
&
Asa
hys
son
reignyd
for
hym
.
And
in
the
daies
of
As●…
,
the
lond
was
in
rest
.
x.
yere
.
And
Asa
did
that
that
was
good
and
plesaunte
in
the
sight
of
God
.
And
he
distried
auters
of
Idolatri
and
hygh
placys
and
he
Brake
Imagys
and
hewed
downe
wodis
and
commaundyd
the
puple
of
Iuda
,
to
seke
the
lord
God
of
her
fathers
and
do
his
lawe
,
&
kepe
al
hys
heestis
.
He
reigned
in
peace
and
bildid
stronge
cities
wyth
walles
and
toures
and
yates
and
locks
.
And
he
had
in
hys
ooste
three
hundred
thousand
of
Iuda
,
men
bearing
shee●…dis
and
speeris
.
And
of
Beniamin
two
hundryd
thousande
and
lxx
thousande
of
men
of
Armes
&
of
archars
.
And
he
ouercame
the
Kynge
of
Ethiope
that
came
wyth
.
x.
hundred
thousand
men
&
.
iii.
hundred
charis
.
And
Asa
had
the
victorie
,
for
in
trist
of
gods
help
he
came
ayens
this
grete
multitude
.
Than
the
prophet
of
God
seid
to
Asa
and
al
hys
puple
.
The
lorde
is
wyth
you
,
for
you
weren
with
hym
.
If
ye
seken
him
,
you
shoulen
fynd
him
.
And
if
you
forsaken
hym
:
he
shall
forsake
you
.
Mani
dayes
shulen
passe
in
Israel
wythouten
veri
God
●…nd
without
priest
and
teacher
and
lawe
:
and
Asa
hys
father
hadde
take
.
And
the
Lord
was
with
Iosaphat
:
&
he
yede
in
the
fyrst
weyes
of
Dauid
his
father
.
And
he
hopyd
not
in
Baalim
,
but
in
God
almighti
:
and
yede
in
hys
commaundementis
,
and
not
by
the
synnes
of
Israell
.
And
God
confirmide
the
rewme
in
the
hond
of
Iosaphat
:
and
he
had
ful
mani
richessis
,
and
myche
glorye
.
And
whan
hys
hert
had
take
trif●…e
for
the
weis
of
the
lorde
:
he
dyd
aweye
also
hygh
placis
and
wodis
fro
Iuda
,
where
the
puple
made
offringe
ayens
the
law
.
And
Iosaphat
in
the
thyrd
yere
of
hys
rewme
:
sente
fyue
of
his
princis
,
that
they
shulden
teache
in
the
cytes
of
Iuda
,
And
he
sent
.
ix
.
dekenis
with
hem
,
and.
ii
.
prists
wyth
hem
:
and
they
hadden
the
boke
of
goddis
law
,
and
taughten
the
puple
in
Iuda
.
And
they
compassiden
all
the
cities
of
Iuda
:
and
taughten
al
the
puple
.
And
therfore
the
drede
of
the
lord
was
made
on
al
the
rewmis
of
londis
that
weren
by
the
compas
of
Iuda
,
and
dursten
not
ware
ayens
Iosaphat
.
And
he
had
redye
at
hys
honde
.
xi
.
C.
thousande
,
and.
ix
.
thousand
of
knyghtis
and
men
of
Armis
and
archars
outake
other
,
which
he
leftin
walled
cities
,
and
in
al
Iuda
,
And
Philisteis
&
Arabies
broughten
to
Iosaphat
yefts
and
tributis
,
and
many
thousaūds
of
shepe
&
buckis
of
geet
.
And
after
thys
doinge
Iosaphat
was
alyed
to
Achab
and
yede
wyth
hym
to
bateyle
into
Ramothe
of
Galaad
,
&
.
iiii
.
hundrid
prophetes
that
weren
dysceyued
by
a
spyrite
of
leasynge
:
excytyden
Achab
to
thys
warre
&
byhyghten
,
prosperyte
and
victori
to
him
.
But
Micheas
,
a
trew
prophete
of
God
:
teld
to
Achab
that
he
shoulde
dye
in
this
bateyll
,
and
so
it
was
in
dede
.
And
Iosaphat
that
was
in
most
perile
of
thys
bateyle
:
was
sauyd
by
goddys
helpe
.
After
thys
bateil
Iosaphat
turned
ayene
in
peace
to
Ierusalem
,
&
a
prophete
of
God
mette
wyte
hym
,
and
seyde
.
Thou
helpest
the
wycked
man
,
and
arte
ioyned
in
frendship
wyth
hem
that
haten
God
,
and
therfore
thou
deseruist
the
wrath
of
God
.
But
good
werkes
ben
foundun
in
the
:
for
thou
dyddist
aweye
wodes
fro
the
londe
of
Iuda
,
and
madest
redi
thyne
hert
to
sech
the
lorde
God
of
thy
fathers
.
Therefore
Iosaphat
dwellid
in
Ierusalem
.
And
efte
he
yede
oute
to
the
puble
,
●…ro
Bersebee
,
tylto
the
hyll
of
Effraim
:
and
cleppid
hem
ayen
to
the
lord
God
of
her
fathers
.
And
he
ordeined
iudgys
of
the
londe
in
al
stronge
cities
of
Iuda
bi
eche
place
.
And
he
commaundyd
thus
to
the
Iudgis
.
Se
ye
what
ye
owen
to
do
.
For
ye
vsen
the
dome
,
not
of
man
but
of
the
Lord
.
And
what
euer
thynge
that
ye
shall
deme
:
shal
turne
into
you
.
The
drede
of
the
lorde
be
with
you
and
do
you
al
thyngis
with
diligence
.
For
why
,
neither
wyckednes
,
neither
takynge
of
parsons
neither
couetise
of
yiftis
is
anentis
your
Lorde
God
.
And
in
Ierusalem
Iosaphat
ordeinid
Dekenis
and
priestys
,
and
pryncys
of
meinees
of
Israel
:
that
they
shulden
deme
to
the
dwellars
therof
the
doome
and
cause
of
God
.
And
he
commaundid
to
hem
and
seyd
.
Thus
ye
shulen
do
in
the
dreade
of
the
Lorde
faithfully
and
in
a
perfect
hert
.
Ech
cause
that
cometh
to
you
of
your
brithern
that
dwellen
in
here
cities
bitwix
kinrede
and
kynrede
,
where
euer
is
questian
either
doubte
of
the
lawe
of
commaundement
,
of
ceremonies
,
of
iustifiyngs
shewe
ye
to
hem
,
that
they
do
not
sinne
ayens
the
lorde
,
and
wrath
either
vengeaunce
come
not
on
you
,
&
on
youre
brethern
.
Therefore
do
ye
thus
:
and
ye
shulen
not
do
sinne
.
And
Amarie
your
pryeste
eyther
byshop
:
shall
be
soueraine
in
these
thingis
that
perteyne
to
God
.
After
thes
thingis
the
sonnis
of
Amon
&
the
sonnis
of
Moab
with
menne
of
Idumee
:
weren
gadryde
togither
to
warre
ayens
Iosaphat
.
Than
Iosaphat
yafe
hym
all
to
beseche
God
:
and
preachyd
faistnge
to
al
Iuda
:
and
al
Iuda
was
gatherid
to
bisech
the
Lorde
.
And
Iasaphat
knoleched
that
he
had
not
power
to
ayenstonde
so
greate
a
multitude
of
enimies
.
Than
God
confortid
hym
&
hys
puple
by
a
prophere
:
that
theye
shulen
not
dreade
this
greate
multitude
of
enimies
.
For
God
hym selfe
should
fyght
&
ouer●…ōe
her
enimyes
wythoute
stroke
of
hys
puple
,
and
so
it
was
in
dede
.
At
the
laste
Iosaphat
made
frenshyppe
wyth
Ocosie
Kyng
of
Israel
(
whos
werkis
weren
ful
euil
)
&
they
weren
felows
to
make
shypps
that
shulden
go
into
Tharsis
.
Therfore
God
bi
his
prophete
seyde
to
Iosaphat
.
For
thou
haddist
bonde
of
peace
wyth
Ocosie
God
hathe
smitten
thy
werkis
,
and
the
shipps
bene
altobroke
,
&
migten
not
go
into
Tharsis
.
Than
died
Iosaphat
,
and
Ioram
hys
son
reignyd
for
hym
.
Thys
Ioram
weddyd
the
doughtyr
of
Achab
,
and
kylled
hys
o●…●…retherne
:
and
yede
in
the
weis
of
the
〈◊〉
of
Israell
,
as
the
house
of
Achab
had
do
.
He
dyd
Idolatrye
and
made
the
dwellaris
of
Ierusalem
and
also
of
Iuda
:
to
breake
goddys
lawe
.
Therfore
,
Edom
and
Lobna
yeden
a
waie
fro
his
Lordship
:
for
he
had
forsake
the
Lord
God
of
his
fathers
.
And
therfore
god
reised
ayens
hym
philisties
&
Arabies
,
that
costen
wyth
Ethiopiens
.
And
theidistri
eden
the
londe
of
Iuda
,
and
token
awaye
the
cattell
that
was
foundune
in
the
house
of
the
Kyng
,
and
token
awaye
hys
wife
and
sonnes
:
outaken
Ioachim
the
youngeste
.
And
God
smote
Ioram
wyth
vncurable
sorowe
of
wombe
two
yere
:
so
that
he
rottide
on
erth
,
and
castyde
out
hys
entrailles
&
died
in
worst
sicknes
,
and
hys
sonne
Ocosias
ceygnyd
for
hym
and
did
euyl
as
the
house
of
A●…hab
.
For
why
his
mother
excitid
hym
to
do
wyckyd●…ie
.
And
thei
of
the
house
of
Achab
,
weren
his
councellours
into
hys
death
:
and
he
yede
in
the
counsell
of
hem
.
And
therfore
Hieu
,
whan
he
distried
the
house
of
Achab
:
killid
Ocosie
and
the
prince
of
Iuda
,
and
the
sonnis
of
the
brithern
of
Ocosie
.
After
thes
thingis
Ioas
was
made
Kyng
bi
the
help
of
Ioiada
the
priest
:
and
the
curssed
woman
Athalia
was
slayne
.
The
priestis
and
greate
men
of
the
puple
broughten
out
of
godis
ho●…se
the
sonne
of
the
Kynge
:
&
settiden
a
crowne
on
his
head
,
and
yauen
in
his
hand
the
lawe
to
be
kepte
and
maden
hym
kyng
And
Ioiada
made
couenaunt
bitwix
hym
and
al
the
puple
and
the
Kynge
,
that
theye
shullen
be
the
puple
of
God
,
that
is
forsake
Idolatri
&
kepe
trulye
goddis
law
.
Therfore
al
the
puple
yede
into
the
house
of
Baal
,
and
distrieden
it
:
and
braken
the
auteris
and
simulacris
eyther
Imagys
of
him
.
And
they
kylliden
byfore
the
auter
:
Mathan
the
priest
of
Baal
.
This
Ioas
dyd
wel
in
the
tyme
of
Ioiada
,
and
reparelyd
the
temple
of
Ierusalem
:
that
was
dystryede
by
Athalia
the
quene
and
hyr
sonnys
.
But
after
the
death
of
Ioiada
,
he
was
flatteryde
by
the
princis
of
Iuda
:
and
thei
felden
to
Idolatrie
,
and
forsoken
the
temple
of
God
.
And
the
wrath
of
God
was
made
ayens
Iuda
&
Ierusalem
:
for
his
synne
.
And
he
sent
prophetys
to
hem
that
they
shulden
turne
ayene
to
God
and
they
nolden
heare
those
prophetis
.
And
Zacharie
the
prieste
and
sonne
of
Ioiada
:
repriuid
hem
for
thys
synne
,
&
they
stonyden
hem
to
deathe
in
the
purseynte
of
goddys
house
:
by
commaundement
of
the
●…yng
.
And
whan
the
yere
was
endyd
:
the
●…oste
of
Sirie
stied
ayens
hym
,
and
came
into
Iuda
and
Ierusalem
,
and
kylliden
al
the
princis
of
the
puple
&
senten
al
the
preye
into
Damaske
to
the
Kinge
.
And
certes
whan
full
little
numbre
of
men
of
Sirie
▪
was
commen
:
God
bitoke
in
here
hondis
a
multitud
wythouten
end
.
For
thei
hadden
forsake
the
Lorde
God
of
her
fathers
.
And
they
vsiden
shamfull
domys
in
Ioas
:
&
yeden
forth
and
leften
hym
in
greate
sorows
.
And
his
seruaunts
risen
ayens
hym
for
vengeaunce
of
the
blude
of
the
sonne
of
Ioiada
the
prist
and
kylliden
hym
in
hys
bedde
.
And
Ioas
was
deade
,
and
Amasie
hys
sonne
reigned
for
hym
.
The.
ix
.
chapiter
AMasie
did
good
in
partie
:
but
not
in
a
perfecte
herte
.
And
he
killid
hem
that
had
den
slayne
the
kynge
his
father
but
he
killid
not
there
sonnes
,
as
God
bade
in
t●…e
lawe
.
This
Amasie
found
in
al
Iuda
&
Beniamin
fro
.
xx
.
yere
&
aboue
:
xxx
.
M.
of
yong
men
that
yeden
oute
to
batteyl
,
and
helden
speare
and
sheeld
.
And
he
hi●…ide
of
Israel
an
hundryd
thousand
of
full
stronge
men
,
for
an
hundride
talentis
of
syluer
:
to
fight
ayens
the
sonnes
of
Edom.
And
a
man
of
God
seyde
to
Amase
.
A
thou
Kynge
,
the
ooste
of
Israel
go
not
out
wyth
the.
For
the
lorde
is
not
wyth
Issraell
:
and
with
al
the
sonnes
of
Effraim
.
That
if
thou
gessest
the
bateylis
stonden
in
the
strengh
of
oost
:
the
lord
shal
make
the
to
be
ouercomen
of
thyne
enimies
.
For
it
is
propre
to
God
for
to
helpe
,
and
for
to
turne
into
●…ygh
.
Therfore
Amasie
departyd
awaye
the
ooste
of
Israel
:
and
trystyly
ledde
forth
his
puple
to
batteil
,
and
he
had
the
victorie
:
and
kylled
.
xl
.
thousande
of
hys
enimies
in
this
bateyl
.
And
after
this
victori
Amasie
worshipid
the
gods
of
Edon
:
&
brent
inces
to
hem
.
Wherfore
God
was
wroth
ayens
Amasie
:
and
sente
to
hym
a
prophet
that
shoulde
seye
to
hym
.
Whye
hast
thou
worshipid
goddis
y●
deliueridē
not
here
puple
fro
thine
hond
?
Whan
the
prophet
spake
these
thyngys
to
hym
:
he
answeryd
to
the
prophet
▪
Where
thou
art
a
counsellour
of
the
king
?
Ceasse
thou
:
lest
peraduenture
I
slea
the.
Therfore
the
prophet
yede
awaye
and
seyde
.
I
wot
that
the
lord
thought
to
slea
the
,
for
thou
hast
do
this
euil
:
and
ferthermore
,
thou
assentist
not
to
my
councell
.
And
so
it
byfelde
in
dede
.
For
by
prid
he
terrid
the
kyng
of
Israel
to
warre
:
and
nolde
ceasse
for
helthfull
counsel
of
the
Kynge
of
Israel
.
Therfore
the
King
of
Israel
ouercame
the
puple
of
Iuda
,
&
toke
Amasie
and
distryed
the
wal
of
Ierusalem
by
.
iiii
.
hundrid
cubites
,
and
toke
away
al
the
treasoure
&
vesselis
whych
he
founde
in
goddis
house
&
in
the
kyngis
house
.
After
thys
doynge
Amasie
fled
oute
of
Ierusalem
into
Lachis
:
for
treason
done
to
him
of
hys
men
.
And
they
senten
and
kylliddē
hym
in
Lachis
.
And
Olias
his
sonne
reygnid
for
him
.
lii
.
yere
in
Ierusalem
,
and
sought
God
in
the
dayes
of
Zacharie
,
vnderstondynge
and
seynge
God
.
And
whan
he
soughte
God
:
he
louide
hyme
in
al
thyngis
,
&
God
helpyd
hym
ayens
philisteys
and
Arabeis
,
&
ayens
Amonitis
.
And
Amonites
paidē
yiftis
to
Osias
:
and
his
name
was
publyshede
tylto
the
entre
of
Egipt
,
for
ofte
victories
.
He
byldyde
many
tourys
in
Ierusalem
,
&
also
in
wildernes
,
for
he
had
mamy
beastes
&
vines
,
&
vynetiliers
.
For
he
was
a
man
yeuen
to
earthtilth
.
He
had
in
hys
oost
.
ii
.
M.
&
.
vi
.
C.
princis
of
strong
men
,
&
.
iii.
C
thousande
and.
v.
hundryd
that
weren
able
to
batell
,
&
foughten
for
the
King
ayens
aduersaris
,
&
his
name
yede
out
fer
:
for
God
helpid
him
and
made
him
strong
.
But
whan
he
was
made
strong
:
his
hert
was
reisid
into
hys
death
.
And
he
dyspysyd
hys
Lord
God
.
For
he
yede
into
the
temple
of
God
:
and
wolde
brene
incens
on
the
auter
of
incens
ayeng
the
law
.
And
whan
the
Bishope
&
maninoble
Priestis
ayenstodē
hym
,
and
told●…n
the
lawe
that
was
ayens
him
:
he
was
wrath
,
and
helde
the
censer
&
manacide
hem
.
And
anon
lepre
rose
in
his
forhead
byfore
the
priestis
in
gods
house
.
Than
the
prieste
puttid
hym
oute
.
And
he
hastyd
to
go
oute
for
dread
:
and
for
he
felid
anon
the
vengeaunce
of
God
Therfore
the
Kyng
Iosias
was
leprouse
tylto
the
daye
of
his
death
,
and
dwellid
in
an
house
departid
.
And
Ioathan
his
sonne
gouernid
the
kyngs
house
:
and
demid
the
puple
of
the
londe
.
And
Ioathan
reignid
.
xvi
.
yere
in
Ierusalem
,
&
dyd
rightfulnes
bifore
god
:
bial
things
which
Osias
his
father
had
do
,
outtaken
thys
,
that
he
entryde
not
into
the
temple
of
God
:
and
yet
the
puple
trespassed
.
He
bylded
many
thyngis
&
faught
ayens
the
King
of
the
sonnis
of
Amon
▪
&
ouircame
him
.
And
the
sonnes
of
Amon
yauen
to
hyme
an
hundryd
talentis
of
siluer
.
&
.
x
thousande
chorus
of
barly
,
and
as
mani
of
whete
.
And
Corus
conteynethe
xxx
.
bushels
.
And
Ioathan
was
made
stronge
for
he
had
dressid
hys
wayes
byfore
hys
Lorde
God
,
and
he
was
deade
.
And
Achaz
his
sonne
reigned
for
him
.
xvi
.
yere
in
Ierusalem
.
This
Achaz
dyd
not
ryghtfulnes
in
goddis
sight
:
but
yed
in
the
weies
of
the
Kyngis
of
Israell
,
and
made
Imagis
to
Baal
,
&
dyd
manyfolde
Idolatrie
,
and
God
bitoke
him
into
the
hond
of
the
Kynge
of
Sirie
.
which
Kyng
smore
Achaz
,
and
toke
a
great
preye
of
his
rewme
into
Damaske
.
And
Achaz
was
bitake
into
the
hondis
of
the
Kynge
of
Israel
,
&
was
smiten
wyth
a
greate
wound
.
And
Phacee
the
sonne
of
Romelie
kyllid
of
Iuda
vi
.
score
thousande
in
oon
daye
,
all
the
warriours
:
for
they
hadden
forsake
the
Lord
God
of
her
fathirs
.
And
the
sonnes
of
Israel
token
of
her
brithern
of
Iuda
.
ii
.
C.
thousand
of
women
&
of
chyldren
and
of
damsellis
&
preye
wythouten
ende
:
and
baren
it
into
Samari
.
And
Obed
the
prophet
of
God
,
seide
to
the
men
of
Israel
,
that
they
hadden
do
greate
crueltie
,
and
synnyd
ayens
God
▪
And
bade
hem
leade
ayene
the
prisoneris
of
Iuda
.
Forwhie
,
greate
vengeaunce
of
God
neighith
to
you
.
Therfore
,
the
princis
of
Israell
maden
the
warriours
to
forsake
the
praye
,
and
al
thyngis
whych
they
hadden
take
.
And
the
princis
clothiden
hem
that
weren
naked
and
refreshiden
hem
with
meate
and
drynke
and
annoyntynge
wyth
oyle
for
traueil
,
and
senten
hem
home
benignely
.
Than
Kyng
Achaz
sente
to
the
Kyng
of
Assiriens
:
and
axid
helpe
.
And
Idumeis
camen
&
kylliden
moni
men
of
Iuda
:
&
token
great
praie
.
And
Philisties
token
many
Cytyes
of
Iuda
:
and
dwelliden
in
tho
.
And
God
made
lowe
the
puple
of
Iuda
:
for
Achaz
the
Kyng
of
Israel
,
for
he
had
made
hym
naked
of
helpe
:
&
for
he
hadde
dyspy●…id
God
.
And
God
brought
ayens
hym
Teglathfalasar
the
Kynge
of
Assiriens
,
that
tormentyd
him
and
distried
,
for
none
ayenstod
.
Therfore
Achaz
spoyllede
goddis
house
,
and
the
house
of
Kyngis
and
princis
,
and
yafe
yeftis
to
the
Kynge
of
Assiriens
:
and
netheles
it
profityd
nothynge
to
hym
.
And
Achaz
in
the
tyme
of
hys
anguyshe
,
encreasyde
despysynge
ayens
God
,
and
offryde
sacrifyce
to
goddis
of
damaske
,
and
he
sayd
.
The
goddis
of
Sirie
helpen
hem
,
whyche
Goddis
I
shal
please
with
sacrifices
,
&
thei
shulen
helpe
me
whan
ayenwarde
they
weren
into
falling
to
him
&
to
all
Israell
Therfore
Achaz
rauishid
and
brake
all
the
vessellis
of
goddis
house
:
and
closed
the
yatis
of
goddis
temple
,
&
made
to
hym
auteris
in
all
the
corneris
of
Ierusalem
,
and
in
al
the
cities
of
Iuda
,
to
brenne
incence
:
&
terride
God
to
wrath
.
And
he
died
.
And
Ezechie
his
sonne
reygned
for
hym
.
xxix
.
yere
in
Ierusalem
.
He
dyd
that
,
that
was
pleasant
in
goddis
sight
:
bi
al
things
which
Dauid
his
father
had
do
.
And
he
openid
the
yates
of
goddis
house
in
the
fyrste
yere
of
hys
rewme
,
and
made
priestis
and
deakenis
to
clense
and
hale
we
the
temple
,
&
the
auter
of
God
,
with
al
the
vesseles
&
purtenauncis
of
the
temple
.
And
he
gaderid
togidyr
al
the
pryncys
of
the
citie
,
&
styed
into
goddis
house
.
And
they
offriden
.
vii
.
bullis
.
vii
.
rames
.
vii
.
lambren
,
&
.
vii
buckis
of
gete
:
for
sinnes
for
the
rewme
,
for
the
sentuary
,
and
for
Iuda
.
And
he
seyd
to
the
priests
the
sonnes
of
Aaron
:
that
they
shulden
offer
on
the
auter
of
God
,
and
theye
didden
so
.
And
he
ordeynyd
dekinys
in
the
house
of
God
wyth
symbalis
and
psalteries
,
and
harpis
by
the
ordinaunce
of
Dauid
and
of
Gadde
the
prophet
of
the
Kyng
,
and
of
Nathan
the
prophet
.
For
it
was
the
commaunde
ment
of
god
:
bi
the
hond
of
his
prophits
And
dekens
stoden
&
helden
the
organis
of
Dauid
,
and
preistis
helden
trumpettis
,
and
Ezechie
commaundid
,
that
they
sholden
offer
brent
sacrificis
on
the
auter
.
And
whan
brent
sacrificis
weren
offirid
:
they
.
begunen
to
singe
heriyngis
to
God
,
&
to
sowne
wyth
trumpetts
&
dyuers
orgains
,
which
Dauid
the
Kynge
of
Israell
hadde
made
redie
forto
sowne
.
And
Ezechi
and
the
princis
cōmaundiden
to
the
dekeines
:
that
they
shulden
herie
God
wyth
the
wordis
of
Dauid
and
of
Asaph
the
prophete
.
And
Ezechie
sent
to
al
Israell
and
Iuda
:
and
wroote
epistlis
to
Effcaim
and
Manasses
:
that
they
shulden
come
to
goddis
house
in
Ierusalem
,
and
make
paske
to
the
Lord
God
of
Israel
.
And
it
plesyd
the
●…ynge
and
all
the
multytude
,
And
they
demidē
to
send
mesengers
into
all
Israell
,
fro
Bersa
bee
tylto
●…an
:
that
they
shulden
come
&
make
pa●…ke
to
the
Lord
God
of
Ierusalem
And
currours
yeden
out
wyth
Epi●…s
by
the
commaundement
of
the
kyng
and
of
his
princis
into
al
Israel
and
Iuda
,
as
the
Kynge
had
commaundyd
and
preachid
.
Sonnes
of
Israell
,
turne
ayene
to
the
lorde
God
of
Abra
ham
,
of
Isaac
,
&
of
Israel
:
&
he
shal
turne
ayene
to
the
remnauntis
that
ascapiden
the
hondis
of
the
Kyng
of
Assirians
.
Serue
ye
to
the
Lord
God
of
your
fathers
:
&
the
wrathe
of
hys
stronge
vengeaunce
shal
be
turnede
ayene
fro
you
.
For
if
ye
turnen
ayene
to
the
lorde
:
youre
britherne
&
your
sonnes
shulen
haue
mercie
bifore
her
lordis
,
that
leade
hem
prisoneris
.
And
thei
shulenturne
ayene
to
thys
lond
.
Therfore
,
currouris
yeden
swyftly
fro
citie
to
citie
,
bi
the
lond
of
Effraim
,
and
of
Manasses
and
of
Zabulon
:
and
they
scordiden
and
bimowi
den
the
messengers
.
Nethelesse
,
some
of
Aser
&
Manasses
and
of
Zabulon
assentiden
to
the
councel
:
and
camen
into
Ierusalem
.
Goddis
honde
was
made
in
Iuda
:
that
he
yafe
to
hem
one
herte
,
and
they
dydden
the
worde
of
God
by
commaundement
of
the
king
and
of
pryncys
.
And
many
puple
,
weren
gatherid
in
Ierusalem
:
to
make
solemnite
of
paske
in
the
second
monthe
.
And
they
distrieden
the
auters
that
weren
in
Ierusalem
.
And
theye
dystryeden
al
thingis
in
which
incens
,
was
offrid
to
Idolis
,
and
castiden
forth
into
the
stronde
of
Cedron
.
Whan
these
thyngis
weren
halewyd
ryghtly
,
all
Israel
yede
out
that
was
founden
in
the
cities
of
Iuda
.
And
they
braken
semulacris
either
Imagis
,
&
he
weden
downe
wodis
,
&
destrieden
high
places
&
auteres
.
And
not
only
of
Iuda
&
Beniamin
:
but
also
of
Effraim
&
Manasses
,
til
thei
destridē
tho
vtterly
.
And
Ezechie
ordeyned
companies
of
Priestis
&
of
Dekenis
by
her
departings
ech
man
in
his
owne
office
as
wel
of
prists
as
of
dekens
,
to
brent
sacrificis
&
to
pesible
sacrificis
,
that
they
shulden
mynister
&
knowledge
&
synge
in
the
yates
of
the
castelles
either
oostes
of
the
lorde
.
And
Ezechie
commaunded
to
the
puple
to
yeue
to
prestis
&
dekenis
here
partis
,
that
is
the
fyrste
fruitis
&
tithis
that
they
myghten
yeue
tent
to
the
lawe
of
God
.
And
there
is
told
mych
of
the
payinge
&
dealing
of
tythis
&
other
holy
thingis
.
Than
it
sueth
,
howe
Senacherib
blasphemed
god
of
Israel
,
&
howe
Ezechie
conforted
the
puple
ayens
his
blasphemie
and
pride
.
Ezechie
and
Esaie
the
Prophet
preiden
ayens
the
blasphemie
:
and
crieden
til
into
heauen
.
And
God
sent
hys
Angell
,
and
he
kyllyd
eche
strong
man
and
warryour
and
Prince
of
the
ooste
of
the
Kyng
of
Assiriens
.
And
he
turnid
ayene
wyth
shenshyppe
into
hys
londe
:
and
hys
owne
Sonnys
kyllyden
hym
wyth
swerd
.
And
God
sauid
Ezechie
and
the
dwellars
of
Ierusalem
,
fro
the
honde
of
Senacheryh
Kynge
of
Assitiens
:
and
fro
the
hond
of
all
men
,
and
yafe
to
hem
reste
by
cumpas
.
After
these
thyngys
,
Ezechie
was
sicke
to
the
death
:
and
he
prayed
to
God
,
and
God
hearde
hym
.
And
the
herte
of
Ezechie
was
reisid
to
pride
:
and
Wrath
was
made
ayens
hym
and
ayens
Iuda
,
and
ayens
Ierusalem
.
And
after
he
was
mekyd
(
for
hys
herte
was
reysede
)
both
he
and
the
dwellaris
of
Ierusalem
weren
mekyd
:
and
therfore
the
vengeaunce
of
God
came
not
in
the
dayes
of
Ezechie
.
And
Ezechie
was
full
ryche
&
noble
:
&
in
al
hys
werkis
he
did
welsumlie
what
euer
thynge
he
would
.
Nethelesse
in
the
message
of
princis
of
Babilon
,
that
weren
sente
to
hym
to
axe
of
the
greate
wondre
that
byfell
on
earth
:
God
forsoke
hyme
that
he
was
tempyd
,
and
althyngis
weren
knowne
that
weren
in
hys
her●…e
.
Than
died
Ezechie
:
and
Manasses
hys
sonne
reigned
in
Ierusalem
.
lv.
yere
.
And
Manasses
dyd
euil
byfore
God
:
bi
abhominacion
of
heathen
men
whych
Goddy
▪
tried
byfore
the
sonnis
of
Israel
.
And
he
byldyde
hygh
placis
and
made
auteris
to
Baalym
and
dyde
manyfolde
Idolatrie
,
and
seruyd
to
wythcraftis
,
and
se●…tyd
Idoles
in
the
temple
of
God
.
And
he
disceiued
the
puple
of
Iuda
and
the
dwellars
of
Ierusalem
:
that
they
didden
euil
more
than
heathen
men
,
which
the
Lord
had
distried
from
the
face
of
the
sonnis
of
Israel
.
And
God
spake
to
hym
and
to
hys
puple
:
&
they
nolden
take
hede
.
Therfore
he
brought
on
hem
the
prince
of
the
oost
of
the
kyng
of
assiryens
:
&
they
token
Manasses
and
bounden
hym
wyth
chayns
and
gyues
,
and
lede
hym
into
Babilon
And
after
that
he
was
anguishid
:
he
preyede
his
Lord
God
,
and
he
dyde
penaunce
greatlie
before
the
God
of
his
fatheys
.
And
he
preide
hertely
and
besought
God
:
&
God
herd
hys
preyer
,
and
brought
him
ayene
into
Ierusalem
into
his
rewme
.
And
Manasses
knewe
that
the
Lord
hymsilfe
is
God
.
And
he
dyd
awaye
Alien
goddes
,
and
simulacres
either
Idolls
fro
goddis
house
,
and
destried
auteris
whiche
he
had
made
in
the
hyll
of
goddis
in
Ierusalem
,
and
castid
al
out
of
the
Citie
.
And
he
restored
the
aulter
of
god
:
and
offered
on
it
Sacrifycis
and
heriynge
.
And
commaundid
the
puple
of
Iuda
,
to
feare
the
Lord
God
of
Israel
.
And
nethelesse
the
puple
offerid
in
hygh
places
to
here
lord
God
.
Manasses
died
,
&
Amon
his
sonne
reigned
for
him
.
ii
.
yere
in
Ierusalem
.
And
he
dyd
euel
in
goddes
sight
,
as
Manasses
his
father
had
do
,
&
offered
&
serued
to
all
Idolis
which
Manasses
had
made
And
he
reuerenced
not
the
face
of
God
as
Manasses
reuerenced
,
and
he
dyd
manye
greater
trespasses
.
And
whan
his
seruants
hadden
conspirid
ayens
him
,
they
kylleden
him
.
And
the
puple
kylled
hem
the
hadden
slayne
Amon
:
&
maden
Iosie
his
sonne
king
for
him
,
&
he
reigned
.
xxxi
.
yere
in
Ierusalem
.
Iosie
did
that
that
was
rightfull
in
goddes
sight
,
and
yede
in
the
weys
of
Dauid
his
father
,
&
bowed
nether
to
the
rightside
,
nether
to
the
leftesyde
.
In
the.
viii
.
yere
of
his
rewme
whan
he
was
yet
a
childe
,
he
beganne
to
seke
the
god
of
Dauid
his
father
.
And
in
the
.xii
yere
after
that
he
began
:
he
clensed
Iuda
and
Ierusalem
fro
hight
places
&
Imagis
&
Idoles
.
They
distrieden
before
him
the
Aulteris
of
Baalim
,
&
the
simulac●…is
that
weren
put
aboue
,
he
kytted
downe
and
alto
brake
wodis
&
grauen
Images
,
and
scaterid
the
rēlifis
on
the
biriellis
of
hem
the
weren
wunt
to
offer
.
Further
more
,
he
br●…nt
the
bonis
of
priestes
,
in
the
aulteris
of
Idolis
And
he
clensed
Iuda
&
Ierusalem
&
distried
all
Idolis
in
the
cities
of
Manasses
and
Effraim
and
of
Simeon
tylto
Neptalim
.
In
the
eightenth
yere
of
hys
rewme
,
whan
the
Londe
and
the
Temple
of
God
was
clensydde
:
he
sent
worthye
menne
to
repareyle
Goddis
house
,
and
so
they
didden
in
dede
.
And
Elchie
the
greate
pryeste
yafe
to
Saphan
the
scriueyne
and
solemne
messager
,
the
boke
of
goddis
lawe
:
and
he
bare
it
to
the
Kynge
.
And
whan
the
Kynge
hadde
heard
the
wordis
of
the
Lawe
:
he
torent
his
clothes
.
And
he
commaundid
Elchie
&
other
greate
men
to
go
&
prie
the
lorde
for
the
kynge
,
and
●…or
the
residews
of
Israel
and
Iuda
on
all
the
wordes
of
the
boke
of
goddes
lawe
,
for
why
,
greate
vengeaunce
of
God
hath
dr●…ppid
on
vs
:
●…or
oure
fathers
kep●…ē
not
the
words
of
God
,
that
they
dydden
al
thinges
that
bene
wrytten
in
this
boke
.
Therfore
Elchie
and
they
that
weren
sente
togider
of
the
Kynge
:
ye●…n
to
Olda
,
a
Prophetesse
,
the
wyfe
of
Sellum
:
and
God
seyd
by
her
that
he
shall
bryng
in
on
this
place
and
dwellers
therof
euilles
and
all
curssi●…ges
that
bene
wrytten
in
this
boke
of
goddes
lawe
.
For
they
forsoken
God
,
and
sacrifyed●…n
to
alien
goddes
,
to
terre
him
to
wrathfulnes
in
al
the
werkes
of
her
hondes
.
But
for
thou
kinge
of
Iuda
●…eardiste
the
wordes
of
the
boke
,
&
were
meked
in
goddes
sight
,
&
weptiste
and
rentist
thy
clothis
:
I
haue
hearde
the
,
saith
God
,
and
thou
shalt
be
borne
into
thy
Sepulchre
in
pece
and
thyne
e●…ne
shullen
not
se
all
the
euyll
whiche
I
shall
brynge
in
on
this
place
,
and
on
the
dwellars
therof
.
And
when
Iosie
had
hearde
these
wordes
:
he
clepide
togither
al
the
elder
men
of
Iuda
,
and
Ierusalem
.
And
he
stied
vp
into
goddes
house
:
and
all
men
of
Iuda
,
and
the
dwellars
of
Ierusalem
,
stieden
togider
,
Priestis
and
Dekenis
and
all
puple
fro
the
leaste
tilto
the
moste
.
And
in
audience
of
hem
,
the
kynge
reade
in
goddes
house
,
all
the
wordis
of
the
boke
.
And
he
stod
in
his
trone
either
seate
of
dome
,
and
sinote
bonde
of
peace
before
God
,
that
he
shulde
go
after
God
,
and
kepe
his
hestis
and
wytnessynges
,
and
iustifyingis
in
al
his
herte
,
and
in
all
his
soule
,
and
do
tho
thinges
that
ben
written
in
this
boke
,
whyche
he
had
reade
.
And
he
chargid
greatly
on
this
thing
,
al
men
that
weren
founden
in
Ierusalem
,
&
Beniamyn
,
and
the
dwellars
of
Ierusalem
dyden
by
couenaunt
of
her
Lorde
God
of
here
fathers
.
Therefore
Iosie
dyd
auoide
all
abominations
,
fro
all
the
contreis
of
the
sonnis
▪
of
Israel
,
and
made
al
men
that
weren
residue
in
Israel
:
to
serue
here
lorde
God
.
In
al
the
dayes
of
hys
life
they
yeden
not
awey
fro
the
Lorde
God
of
her
fathers
.
Afterward
Iosie
made
paske
in
Ierusalem
and
ordeined
priestis
in
her
officis
,
&
bade
hem
ministre
in
Goddis
house
.
And
bade
dekenies
serue
God
&
hys
puple
Israel
:
&
make
hem
redie
bi
here
houses
and
kynreddis
,
in
the
depar
.
tinge
of
eche
as
Dauid
kyng
of
Israel
commaundid
,
and
bade
hem
serue
in
the
sentuari
,
by
the
meines
,
companies
and
deakenis
:
and
that
they
be
ha●…owide
and
offer
paske
,
and
make
redie
here
bretherne
therto
.
And
Iosie
made
suche
a
paske
:
that
none
was
lyke
in
Israell
,
fro
the
dayes
of
Samuel
the
prophet
.
Neither
ani
of
the
kyngis
of
Israel
:
made
paske
as
Iosie
dyd
,
to
priests
and
dekenis
,
and
to
al
Iuda
and
Israel
,
and
to
the
dwellars
of
Ierusalem
.
For
he
yafe
to
al
the
puple
that
was
founden
in
Ierusalem
in
the
solemnitie
of
paske
:
xxx
.
thousande
Lambrens
&
kyddis
and
other
shepe
,
&
three
thousand
of
oxen
.
After
that
Iosie
had
repareilide
the
temple
:
Necao
Kynge
of
Egipt
,
stied
to
fight
in
Cartamis
,
&
Iosi
yede
forth
ayens
hym
.
And
the
Kynge
of
Egypt
seide
to
Iosie
,
I
come
not
to
day
ayens
the
:
but
I
fyght
ayens
an
other
house
to
which
God
bade
,
and
made
me
go
in
haste
.
Therfore
cease
thou
Kynge
of
Iuda
to
daye
ayens
God
which
is
wyth
me
:
leste
he
s●…ea
the.
Iosi
nold
turne
ayen
:
but
made
hym selfe
redye
to
batteile
ayens
the
Kynge
of
Egypt
,
and
assentid
not
to
the
words
of
the
King
of
Egipt
:
spoken
bi
goddis
mouth
.
Therfore
,
Iosie
was
slayne
of
the
Kinge
of
Egipte
And
the
puple
of
the
lond
made
Ioacas
his
sonne
King
in
Ierusalem
He
reygned
thre
monethes
in
Ierusalem
.
And
the
Kynge
of
Egipt
puttid
him
downe
,
and
condemned
the
londe
of
Iuda
in
an
hundred
talentis
of
syluer
and
in
oo
talente
of
golde
,
and
made
Eliachim
hys
brother
King
for
him
on
Iuda
and
Ierusalem
,
and
turnid
hys
name
Ioachim
.
He
reigned
.
xi
.
yere
in
Ierusalem
,
and
dyd
euil
bifore
God
.
Therfore
Nabugodonosor
toke
hym
and
led
him
bounden
with
chaines
into
Babilon
:
&
bare
thyther
the
vesselles
of
Goddis
temple
.
And
Ioachim
hys
sonne
reignyd
for
hym
thre
monethis
and.
x.
dayes
in
Ierusalem
:
and
dyd
euil
in
Goddis
syght
.
Than
Nabugodonosor
sente
men
that
ledden
hym
into
Babilon
,
and
bare
oute
the
preciouseeste
vessellis
of
goddis
howse
.
And
Nabugodonoso●…
made
Sedechye
Kynge
on
Iuda
and
Ierusalem
:
he
reignid
.
xi
.
yere
in
Ierusalem
,
and
dyd
euyll
in
Goddis
sight
,
neyther
was
ashamid
of
the
face
of
Ieremie
the
prophete
that
spoke
to
him
of
goddis
mouth
.
He
brake
the
oothe
made
to
Nabugodonosor
.
Therfor
Nabugodonosor
came
and
toke
him
:
and
lede
him
and
al
the
vessellis
and
the
treasuris
of
goddis
house
&
of
the
Kynge
and
princis
into
Babilon
,
and
kyllyd
the
puple
,
and
destried
&
brent
Ierusalem
.
And
the
puple
that
was
lefte
aliue
was
lede
into
Babilon
and
seruyde
the
Kynge
&
hys
sonnes
,
tyl
the
King
of
Persis
reignid
,
and
til
.
l.
yere
weren
fyllyd
,
by
goddis
worde
,
seyd
bi
the
mouth
of
Ieremy
.
And
Cirus
King
of
Persis
commaundid
to
be
preachyd
(
yea
by
writing
in
all
his
rewme
)
the
Iewis
shoulden
turne
ayene
into
Iude.
The.
x.
chapiter
.
THys
processe
of
Paralipomenon
,
in
the
fyrst
&
second
boke
:
shoulde
styr
Kyngis
&
christen
lords
:
to
distrie
syn
and
loue
vertue
&
make
goddislawe
to
be
known
and
kept
of
here
puple
.
For
here
theye
moune
se
howe
sore
God
punnished
euill
Kyngis
that
liuiden
euil
and
drouen
the
puple
to
I
dolatrie
eyther
other
greate
sinnis
&
howe
greatlie
God
preysed
,
rewardid
,
and
cherishid
good
kingis
,
that
lyueden
well
,
&
gouerniden
well
the
puple
in
goddis
lawe
,
and
open
reason
and
good
conscience
.
And
though
kyngis
and
Lordes
knewen
neuer
more
of
holy
write
,
than
.
iii.
stories
of
the
seconde
boke
of
Paralipomenon
and
of
Regum
,
that
is
,
the
storye
of
Kynge
Iosaphat
,
the
storye
of
king
Ezechie
,
and
the
storye
of
Kyng
Iosie
:
they
myghten
learne
sufficientlye
to
lyue
wel
&
gouerne
well
here
pupl●…
by
goddis
lawe
,
and
eschewe
al
pride
and
Idolatri
and
couetise
and
other
sins
.
But
alas
alas
alas
,
wher
Kynge
Iosaphat
sent
his
Princes
,
and
Dekenis
,
and
Priestis
to
eche
Citi
of
his
rewme
with
the
boke
of
goddis
lawe
,
to
teach
openly
goddes
lawe
to
the
puple
:
some
christen
Lordes
senden
general
letters
to
al
here
mynisters
and
lyge
men
either
tenantis
,
that
the
pardons
of
the
Byshopis
of
Rome
,
that
ben
open
leasings
(
for
thei
graūten
mani
hundrith
yeres
of
pardons
after
domisedaie
)
be
preachyd
generally
in
here
rewmis
&
lordeshypis
.
And
if
any
wyse
man
ayensaye
the
open
errours
of
Antychrist
:
and
teach
men
to
do
her
almese
to
poore
nedie
men
to
ascape
the
peinis
of
hell
:
and
to
wynne
the
blesse
of
heauen
,
he
shal
be
prisoned
as
a
man
of
vnchristen
beleue
,
&
traytour
of
god
,
and
chrysten
kingis
and
Lor
des
.
And
where
kynge
Ezechie
made
him
ful
bisie
to
clense
Goddis
house
and
do
awaye
all
vnclennesse
fro
the
sentuarie
,
and
commaundyd
priestis
to
offer
brent
sacrifice
on
goddis
auter
&
ordeynid
dekens
in
Goddis
house
to
herie
God
,
as
Dauid
and
othere
prophetis
ordeniden
:
some
chrysten
lords
inname
(
&
hethen
in
condicions
)
defoulen
the
sentuarye
of
God
,
and
bringen
in
Simonielit
clerkis
,
ful
of
couetise
,
and
herecie
,
and
Hipocricy
and
malice
,
to
stoppe
Goddis
lawe
that
it
be
not
knowne
and
kepte
and
freali
preachid
.
And
yet
some
christen
lordis
holden
mani
prelatis
and
curats
in
her
conrtis
&
in
secular
office
ayens
goddis
lawe
&
mans
openlie
:
and
wythholden
hem
fro
here
gostly
office
,
and
helpynge
of
Christen
soules
.
And
where
Kynge
Iosie
preachyde
openlie
Goddis
lawe
in
the
●…mpel
to
al
the
puple
,
and
casted
away
Idolis
and
brent
the
bonis
of
prestis
that
did
Idolatri
some
christen
lords
(
in
name
and
not
in
dede
)
preisen
and
magnyfyen
fryeres
letters
,
full
of
dys●…eyte
and
leasyngys
,
and
maken
here
tenauntis
,
and
meines
,
to
swere
by
herte
,
bonys
,
nayles
and
sydes
,
and
other
mem●…ryes
of
christe
,
and
pursuen
full
cruellie
,
hem
that
wolden
teache
trulye
and
frelye
the
lawe
of
God
,
and
preisen
,
meinteynen
and
cherishen
hem
that
preachen
fables
,
leesyngis
and
synfull
mens
traditions
eyther
statutis
,
and
letten
greate
ly
the
gospell
to
be
preachyd
,
and
ho
ly
wryte
to
be
knowne
and
kept
.
But
wytte
these
vnwyse
Lordys
,
that
Elie
the
Prophete
(
one
alone
)
hadde
the
trueth
of
God
.
And
Kyng
Achab
wyth
eyght
hundrid
and.
L.
pryestys
and
Prophetys
of
Baalle
hadden
the
false
parte
.
And
efte
Micheas
,
one
alone
Prophete
of
God
,
had
the
truethe
ayens
foure
hundryde
Prophetys
of
Baall
that
councellidē
Achab
to
warre
,
to
hys
owne
shenshipe
and
death
.
So
nowe
a
fewe
pore
men
and
Ideots
in
comparisōe
of
clerkis
of
Schole
:
moune
haue
the
trueth
of
holy
scripture
,
ayens
many
thousand
prelatis
and
religiouse
,
that
ben
yeuen
to
worldli
pride
and
couetise
,
simoni
,
hypocrisie
and
other
fleshly
synnes
,
moste
sithen
these
pore
men
desiren
only
the
trueth
&
fredome
of
the
holi
gospel
&
holy
sc●…ipture
,
&
acceptem
mans
law
&
ordinauncis
,
only
in
as
mych
as
they
ben
groundid
in
holi
scripture
,
either
good
reasone
and
common
profite
of
christen
puple
:
and
worldly
prelatis
and
feinid
religiouse
,
grounden
hem
on
sinful
mens
statutis
,
that
sownen
pryde
&
couetise
and
letten
the
trueth
and
fredome
of
goddis
lawe
to
be
knowne
and
bringin
christen
puple
in
endlesse
thraldome
and
greate
coste
.
But
it
is
to
be
drede
full
sore
,
leste
kyngis
and
lordis
bene
nowe
in
the
former
synnes
of
Manasses
:
god
graunte
that
they
repent
verily
and
make
amendes
to
god
and
man
,
as
he
dyd
in
the
ende
,
for
they
setten
Idoles
in
goddis
house
,
and
exciten
men
to
Idolatri
:
and
sheden
innocent
bloud
in
many
maneris
as
Manasses
dyd
.
Firste
thei
setten
in
here
hert
(
that
should
be
the
temple
and
speciall
chamber
of
god
)
the
Idole
of
couetise
,
eyther
of
Glotonie
,
either
of
Pryde
,
either
of
other
greate
sinnes
.
For
sainte
Paule
seyth
that
our
bodies
ben
the
temple
of
the
holy
gost
.
And
efte
he
seyeth
that
glottons
maken
her
belies
here
God
.
And
God
seith
by
Iob
:
that
the
deuill
is
king
ouer
all
the
chyldren
of
pryde
.
And
Iesus
Chryst
seith
,
that
the
deuel
is
Prince
of
thys
worlde
,
that
is
(
as
Austen
seith
)
of
false
men
that
dwellen
in
this
worlde
.
Then
they
that
setten
pride
,
either
couetise
,
either
glotonie
either
raueine
in
here
herte
:
setten
Idols
of
Baal
,
either
of
the
deuell
in
the
temple
of
God
.
Specially
lordes
sitten
Idolis
in
Goddes
house
when
they
maken
vnworthy
prelates
either
curates
in
the
chirch
.
For
why
such
vnable
prelatis
,
either
curatis
,
ben
Idolis
,
as
God
seith
in
the.
xi
.
Chapyter
of
Zacharie
,
to
an
vnable
prelate
.
Athou
shepperd
and
Idole
for
saking
the
flocke
.
Wherefore
Archedekene
in
his
Rosarie
,
whiche
is
one
of
the
famousest
doctours
of
the
Popis
lawe
,
wrytteth
thus
.
An
euil
prelate
is
seyde
a
●…orynge
Lyon
:
and
a
wolfe
raueshyng
praye
.
And
in
the
xxxiiii
.
Chapter
of
Ezechiell
:
he
is
seyde
to
fede
hym selfe
,
and
not
the
shepe
.
Also
he
is
seyd
to
seke
his
owen
profite
temporall
.
Therfore
he
is
not
of
goddis
chyldren
,
as
Austyne
seith
.
viii
.
question
,
and
fyrste
Chapter
.
Sunt
quidam
.
And
for
this
thinge
powre
shal
be
taken
awaye
fro
hym
as
God
seyth
in
the
xxxiiii
.
Chapter
of
Ezechiell
.
Also
an
euell
prelate
is
seyd
a
wolfe
,
as
the
lawe
witnesseth
in
the
lxxxiii
.
distinction
,
Capite
.
Nihil
Also
for
defaute
of
gouernall
,
he
is
seyde
an
vnchaste
dogge
:
as
Austen
witnesseth
in
the
second
cause
the
seuenth
question
.
Capiter
.
Que
nec
.
Also
he
is
seyde
a
Crowe
,
either
a
Rauene
for
the
blackenes
of
sinnis
:
as
the
law
wytnesseth
ther
in
capite
.
Non
omnis
.
Also
he
is
seyde
founid
salt
,
not
profytable
to
anye
thinge
,
as
the
lawe
witnesseth
ther
in
Capite
.
Non
omnis
.
Also
he
is
seyde
an
Hogge
:
as
the
lawe
witnesseth
in
the.
lxiii
.
distinction
Chapter
In
mandatis
.
Also
he
is
seyd
a
cherle
of
a
cherlesched
of
euell
lyfe
:
as
the
lawe
wytnesseth
in
the.
xivii
.
destinction
in
the
beginnyng
.
Also
he
is
seyd
a
Capon
:
for
he
hath
the
maner
of
an
Hen.
For
as
a
Capon
croweth
not
:
so
an
euel
prelate
croweth
not
in
preaching
.
Also
an
euel
prelat
gendreth
not
bi
preching
of
gods
word
neither
he
fighteth
for
his
sogettes
.
Also
as
a
Capon
clepyth
not
hennes
:
so
an
euill
prelate
clepith
not
poore
men
,
to
meate
.
Also
as
a
Capon
maketh
fat
him selfe
:
so
an
euill
prelate
maketh
fat
him selfe
.
Therfore
sithen
he
sechyth
plentuousenes
of
meates
and
rechessis
:
he
shall
be
put
into
fyre
of
hell
,
as
Ierome
wytnessith
on
Michee
in
the
.
xxxv
.
Distinction
,
Capi.
●…cclesie
Principes
.
Atchdeken
writith
all
thys
in
the.
xliii
.
Distinction
,
in
Cap.
Sit
Rector
On
this
word
●…uti
.
Also
adombe
Prelate
is
an
Idole
:
and
not
a
veri
prelare
.
A
dombe
pre
late
is
not
a
verie
prelate
,
sith
he
vseth
not
the
office
of
a
prelate
,
but
he
hath
only
the
lykenes
of
a
prelate
.
As
an
Idoll
that
vseth
not
the
office
of
a
man
:
is
onely
lyke
a
man
,
but
is
no
man
.
Therfore
such
dom
be
prelates
moune
rightfulli
be
saide
simulacris
either
Idolis
of
which
it
is
seyde
in
the.
vi
.
Chap.
of
Baruck●…
.
The
trees
of
hem
ben
made
fayre
of
a
carpenter
and
the
ben
a
raied
with
gold
&
syluer
,
and
●…oun
not
speak
.
And
thei
the
maken
suche
prelatis
:
bene
lyke
hem
,
whiche
makeris
shulen
be
damned
with
suche
prelatis
,
by
that
word
of
Dauid
.
They
that
maken
tho
:
bene
made
lyke
tho
.
But
marcke
well
that
heathen
men
hadden
simulacris
of
.
vi
.
kyndis
.
That
is
,
of
cleye
,
of
Tree
,
of
Brasse
,
of
Stone
,
of
Syluer
,
and
of
Gold
.
We
moune
fynd
these
.
vi
.
kyndis
in
euill
prelatis
(
for
why
)
simulacris
of
cley
bene
fleshly
prelates
,
of
whiche
God
seyth
in
the
Psalter
,
I
shal
do
hem
awaye
,
as
the
cley
of
the
stretis
.
Simulacris
of
tree
bene
vnwise
prelatis
and
boistuous
&
with
oute
wyt
.
Of
whiche
it
is
sayd
in
holy
scripture
,
a
tree
is
wlappid
in
syluer
.
And
these
bene
seyde
to
be
mad
and
nought
:
into
prelatis
.
These
ben
beastis
clepid
chymeris
:
that
han
aparte
of
eche
beaste
.
And
suche
bene
not
,
no
but
only
in
opinionne
either
speche
,
&
not
in
dede
nether
in
kynde
.
Simulacris
of
Brasse
ben
they
that
han
only
wordly
eloquence
.
For
why
brasse
yeueth
greate
sowne
.
In
Epistle
to
Corthinthies
.
xiii
.
Chapt.
If
I
speake
in
the
langagis
of
men
,
&
of
Aungellis
,
and
I
haue
not
Charitie
:
I
am
made
as
bras
sowneing
.
Simulacris
of
stone
bene
they
,
that
bene
broken
fro
rightfulnes
and
vertue
for
temporall
strength
.
These
prelatis
be
not
the
stone
whiche
is
set
into
the
heade
of
the
corner
,
but
these
ben
the
stone
of
hurtyng
and
of
sclander
.
Simulacris
of
Syluer
bene
they
that
bene
made
by
money
,
either
riches
whiche
prelates
seyne
.
What
wolen
ye
yeue
to
vs
?
and
we
shulen
bitraye
Chryste
to
you
.
Golden
simulacris
bene
tho
that
bene
made
onlye
for
worldly
nobly
.
For
why
golde
signifieth
nobley
.
And
therfore
the
heade
of
the
Image
of
Nabugodonosore
was
of
golde
,
in
the.
ii
.
Chapter
of
Daniell
.
Archedeken
telleth
all
this
,
in
the.
xliii
.
destinction
.
Capiter
.
Si●…
rector
.
On
this
worde
.
●…utus
.
Though
this
doctour
of
the
Popis
lawe
,
be
pleyue
and
sharpe
:
he
seythe
trueth
sesonable
.
For
the
chirch
now
accordith
wyth
holy
write
and
reason
and
common
Doctours
of
holy
scripture
.
For
in
the.
xi
.
Chapter
of
zacharie
,
God
clepith
an
euill
prelate
an
Idole
.
And
in
Ezechfell
and
other
Prophetis
he
lykeneth
Tirantis
,
and
raueinoures
,
to
Lions
,
woluis
,
bearis
and
other
vnsaciable
beastis
to
dispyse
here
synne
.
Here
Lordis
and
other
prelatis
moune
se
in
partie
,
how
perilouse
it
is
to
ordeyne
euell
prelatis
either
euratis
in
the
churche
.
For
as
Saynte
Gregorye
seyth
in
the
fyrste
parte
of
Pastorallis
.
ii
.
Chapter
.
No
man
harmeth
more
in
the
●…hirch
then
he
that
doeth
weywardly
&
holdith
the
name
of
order
,
either
holynes
.
And
the
law
seith
De
electionibus
capite
Ni●…hil
.
That
nothing
harmith
more
in
the
chyrch
of
God
:
than
that
vnworthi
men
be
taken
to
the
gouernall
of
soulis
.
And
Grosted
seyth
,
in
his
sermon
Premonitus
a
venerabili
pa●…re
That
to
make
vnable
prelats
either
curats
in
the
chirch
of
God
:
is
to
haue
come
to
the
hyghiste
degree
of
treaspasses
.
Also
in
hys
sermon
,
Dominus
noster
Iesus
Christus
:
he
wrytith
thus
to
the
pope
.
He
that
bitakith
the
cure
of
soulis
to
a
man
vnmighty
,
vnkūing
eyther
not
wylfull
to
helpe
duly
the
soulys
:
is
gyltye
of
all
the
soulys
,
though
ani
ascape
either
is
sauid
by
Goddis
grace
.
And
he
that
bitakith
the
cure
of
soulis
to
him
that
is
openly
vnable
therto
:
techith
to
set
more
●…rice
by
vnreasonable
beastis
,
than
by
men
,
and
forto
loue
more
earthly
thyngis
that
passen
shortly
:
than
euerlastinge
thyngis
,
more
than
the
death
and
bloude
of
goddis
sonne
.
And
he
that
yeuethe
thus
the
cure
of
soules
to
vnable
men
:
is
worse
than
Herod
that
pursued
Christ
,
and
worse
than
Iewis
and
heathen
men
that
crucifiden
Christ
.
Gros●…id
seith
this
plainly
,
and
preuithe
it
openly
byfore
the
pope
and
all
hys
clergie
.
And
the
ye
that
procutē
beneficis
either
rychessis
●…o
men
:
hatē
hem
to
whom
the●…●…rocuren
thus
,
as
if
they
procuryde
hem
to
be
set
in
the
cop
of
the
chirch
in
whirle
winds
and
great
tempestis
.
Grosted
seyth
thys
in
hys
sermon
▪
Scriptum
est
●…e
Leuitis
And
he
that
is
negligent
to
drawe
soulis
out
of
the
●…yt
of
sinne
,
as
mych
as
he
maye
by
the
order
of
lawe
:
and
he
that
letti●…h
hym
of
hys
werke
sleythe
the
souls
.
And
he
settith
more
price
bi
a
flesh●…
shepe
than
a
gostly
shepe
,
that
is
mans
soule
.
Yea
settith
more
price
bi
a
peny
than
by
the
lyfe
of
Gods
so●…e
:
whych
is
worth
all
thys
worlde
.
A
rechlesse
curat
that
sleeth
so
get
ys
by
euyl
ensample
and
with
drawing
of
Goddis
worde
:
is
worse
than
the
vnreasonable
beastis
,
&
he
is
worse
than
the
crucifiers
of
Christe
:
for
he
crucifieth
him
in
his
membres
.
Good
councelloures
they
bene
alone
:
that
bene
wyse
men
and
dread
God
.
For
whye
,
al
couetouse
men
bene
foolys
and
vnwyse
men
.
And
to
belede
by
the
counsell
of
hem
:
is
to
dyspose
of
〈◊〉
,
by
the
councell
of
foxys
,
and
to
dyspose
of
foldes
of
Shepe
,
by
the
counsell
of
wolues
.
Gros●…ede
seyth
thys
in
a
sermon
.
Premonitus
a
venerabili
patre
.
Se
ye
lords
and
prelatis
that
maken
vnable
curatis
for
fleshly
affection
and
yeftys
(
and
specyally
for
pleiynge
at
the
beere
,
and
other
vnlefull
iapis
)
what
treasone
ye
done
to
God
and
what
harme
to
Christis
chirch
&
your
auaūsees
.
Ye
maken
horryble
abominacion
of
dis
comforte
stond
in
the
holy
place
:
for
ye
maken
Antichrist
to
stonde
at
the
hygh
auter
in
the
stede
of
Chryste
:
and
treate
the
holye
sacramente
of
Christes
fleshe
and
blude
full
vnworthyly
.
And
as
Parisyens
seyth
,
whan
ye
maken
a
coueitous
pryest
to
stond
at
the
auter
:
ye
maken
a
Moldy
warpe
to
stonde
there
in
the
stede
of
Chryste
.
And
whan
ye
maken
a
fonde
Byshope
that
can
not
and
louyth
not
Goddis
lawe
stonde
mytryde
at
the
auter
:
ye
maken
an
hornyde
asse
stonde
at
the
auter
in
stede
of
Christe
.
And
so
of
other
vnreasonable
Beastys
as
Lyons
.
Woluys
,
Berys
,
Apis
,
Dragons
,
Hoggis
,
Doggis
,
&
other
visious
Priestys
,
Proude
,
Coueitouse
,
Raueinouris
,
wrathfulle
Hypo●…ritis
,
trecherouse
,
Glotenouse
,
Lecherouse
,
Enuious
,
and
Back
byteris
.
Ye
trans
fyguren
Satanas
into
an
angelle
of
lyghte
whan
ye
maken
curatys
eyther
prelatys
that
bene
contrarye
to
Christ
to
occupie
the
office
of
a
bishop
,
Abbot
eyther
pryeste
,
Lordes
and
prelatys
that
haue
set
suche
Idolys
in
goddys
house
as
Manasses
dyde
.
Sue
ye
Manasses
in
very
repentaunce
and
makyng
of
amendis
to
god
and
men
.
Also
lordis
and
prelatis
exciten
strongly
men
to
do
I
dolatrye
.
For
thei
sweren
custōabli
,
nedles●…i
&
oft
vnauisely
and
false
,
by
the
membres
of
god
,
by
Chryste
and
by
seyntis
,
in
so
mych
that
eche
lorde
and
prelate
,
comynly
maketh
to
hym
an
Idole
of
some
seint
,
whom
he
worshipyth
more
then
god
,
For
comenly
they
sweren
by
our
lady
of
walsyngham
,
seynte
Iohn
Baptyst
,
seynt
Edward
,
seint
Thomas
of
Canterburie
,
and
suche
other
seintis
:
and
chargen
more
this
ooth
then
though
they
sweren
by
the
holy
Trinitie
.
And
in
all
thys
,
they
honouren
more
these
seintis
,
than
thei
honouren
the
holy
Trinity
Thoughe
it
were
leful
toswere
biseyntis
.
this
is
Idolatrie
to
charge
more
an
othe
made
by
suche
seyntis
,
than
by
God
almighti
either
by
the
holi
Trinitie
.
Nethelesse
Chrisostom
wytnessyth
on
the.
v.
chapiter
.
of
Mathew
:
that
to
swere
by
ani
creature
,
is
to
do
Idolatrie
.
For
as
Ierome
there
(
and
decrees
in
the.
xxii
.
cause
.
i.
question
.
Siquis
per
capillum
.
and
Capite
.
next
bifore
,
and
Decretalis
De
Iur●…iurando
,
Capite
Etsi
Christus
)
wyttnesseth
playnly
,
that
to
Swere
by
a
Creature
:
is
ayens
goddis
commaundement
.
And
therfore
Christ
in
the.
v
chapiter
of
Mathew
commaundythe
to
not
swere
bi
heauen
neither
bi
erth
and
vnderstondyth
bi
heauen
&
earth
:
creaturys
of
heauen
&
creaturys
of
erth
.
And
in
al
the
olde
lawe
it
is
not
foundun
where
Godde
grauntythe
to
swere
by
any
creature
,
but
onli
bi
hys
owne
name
,
or
by
hym selfe
.
And
therfore
the
wyse
man
seyth
in
the
xxiii
.
chapiter
of
Ecclesiasticus
.
A
manne
that
swerythe
myche
,
shal
be
fyllyd
wyth
wyckydnes
:
and
vengeaunce
shall
not
go
awaye
fro
hys
house
.
And
efte
he
seythe
.
Thy
mouth
be
not
customably
to
swexeynge
:
for
whi
mych
fallynge
is
in
it
.
The
●…empning
of
God
be
not
custo
mable
in
thy
mouth
:
that
is
to
swere
by
hys
name
in
vayne
,
eyther
false
e●…
ther
for
an
euylle
ende
.
And
be
thou
not
medlid
wyth
the
namis
of
seynts
:
that
is
to
swere
bi
seyntis
.
For
thou
shalte
not
be
gyltlesse
of
hem
.
Here
Lordys
and
Prelatys
moune
se
,
howe
theye
done
openne
Idolatrie
:
whan
they
gessen
to
honoure
Seyntis
.
And
here
open
dedis
of
Idolatrie
,
bene
open
bokis
of
Idolatrye
and
Blasphemye
to
here
soget●…s
.
Therfore
,
as
Gregory
seyth
in
the
seconde
boke
of
Pastorallis
the
fifte
chapiter
▪
Prelatis
bene
worthy
so
many
Deathes
:
how
many
ensamples
of
perdision
theye
senden
to
sogettis
.
And
in
the
fyue
and
twenty
chapiter
of
Numer●…
God
bade
Mo
ses
hong
all
the
Pryncys
in
Iebats
ayens
the
Sunne
:
for
the
puple
of
Iscaell
dyd
Lechery
and
Idolatrye
by
ensample
and
sufferaunce
of
hem
.
Nowe
in
Englonde
it
is
a
common
protection
ayens
Persecutyon
of
Prelatis
and
some
Lordys
:
yf
a
man
be
customable
to
swere
nedles
false
,
and
vnauysyde
,
by
the
bones
,
naylys
and
sydys
,
and
other
membrys
of
Chryste
&
to
be
proude
,
and
Lecherouse
and
speake
not
of
Goddis
lawe
,
and
repreue
not
Synne
aboute
him
.
And
to
a
bstayn
fro
othis
nedelesse
and
not
leful
and
to
eshewe
Pryde
,
and
speake
Honour
of
God
and
hys
Lawe
,
and
repreue
Synne
be
waye
of
Charitie
:
is
mattere
and
cawse
nowe
,
whye
Prelatis
&
some
Lords
,
slaunder
men
&
clepen
hem
low
lardis
,
Heritikis
,
reisars
of
debate
&
of
treason
ayens
the
Kynge
.
Nowe
Manasses
sertethe
Idols
openly
in
the
temple
of
God
,
and
styryth
men
greatly
to
do
Idolatrie
&
cherisheth
hein
that
breaken
openly
gods
,
hestis
&
puny
sheth
hem
sore
as
heathen
men
eyther
heretykis
,
that
bysien
hem
to
learne
,
kepe
,
and
teach
goddis
hests
The.
iii.
time
lordis
&
prelatis
both
:
sheden
innocent
bloud
,
as
Manasses
did
.
For
thei
wasten
folili
here
goods
in
w●…yngis
&
pleyingis
binyghtis
and
in
reresopers
,
and
in
other
vanities
,
and
taken
greate
&
vnmesurable
taxes
of
the
comens
.
And
lesse
lords
and
prelatis
done
greate
extortions
to
pore
men
:
&
taken
poremens
goodis
&
paye
little
or
nought
(
and
out
of
tyme
)
for
tho
.
Therfore
as
Miche
the
prophet
seyth
in
the.
iii.
chapiter
,
they
hielden
pore
men
:
and
eaten
here
fleshe
.
And
Grostede
declareth
thys
well
in
hys
dict
that
begynyth
thus
.
Siut
lumbi
vestri
preci●…cti
,
and
in
them
thryde
Dicte
.
And
God
seyth
in
the
Psalter
of
suche
tyrantes
:
they
deuoren
my
people
,
as
the
meate
of
bred
.
Howe
miche
bloude
Lordis
sheden
in
warris
for
pryde
and
couetyse
,
by
coun●…eil
of
false
prelates
confessouris
&
preachars
:
it
passeth
mans
wyt
to
te●…ully
in
this
lyfe
.
But
of
shedynge
bloude
&
sleyng
of
poore
men
,
by
●…drawyng
of
Almese
,
and
in
yeuyeng
it
to
deade
stockis
either
stones
,
eyther
to
riche
clerkis
and
feyned
relygiouse
:
were
to
speake
nowe
,
yf
a
man
had
the
spirite
of
gostly
strength
.
Nowe
men
knelene
and
preyen
and
offren
faste
to
deade
Imagis
that
han
neither
hunger
nor
colde
,
&
dyspisen
,
beaten
and
sleen
chrysten
men
,
made
to
the
Image
&
lykenes
of
the
holye
Trinitie
,
what
honour
of
god
is
this
?
to
knele
and
offer
to
an
Image
made
of
synfull
mans
handis
,
and
to
dispise
and
robbe
the
Image
made
of
goddes
handis
,
that
is
a
christen
man
either
a
christen
woman
.
Whan
men
yeuen
not
Almese
to
pore
nedie
men
but
to
deade
Imagis
eyther
ryche
clerkis
:
they
robben
pore
men
of
here
due
portion
and
nedfull
sustinaunce
,
assignyd
to
hem
of
God
him
sylfe
.
And
whan
suche
offerars
to
dead
Imagis
robben
pore
men
,
thei
robben
Iesu
Christe
:
as
he
seyth
in
the
xxv
.
chapiter
of
Mathew
.
That
,
that
ye
dydden
to
one
of
these
leest
of
myne
:
ye
dydden
to
me
.
And
if
they
shulen
be
damnid
that
yeuen
not
meate
and
dryncke
and
other
necessaris
to
pore
men
as
Christ
seyth
:
where
shoulen
they
bicome
,
that
robben
pore
men
,
and
so
Iesu
Christe
him
silfe
?
And
if
these
tweyne
,
that
yeuen
not
lyuelode
and
that
robben
pore
men
,
shulen
be
dampnyd
sodeape
in
Hell
:
where
shulen
false
teachars
,
styrars
and
confessours
bicome
,
that
styren
Lords
and
rych
men
to
robbe
thus
pore
men
,
&
to
do
thys
vnder
the
coloure
of
excellent
Almese
and
holynes
?
But
mourne
we
sore
for
thys
cursydnes
,
and
prey
we
to
God
wyth
al
oure
herte
,
that
sythyn
Lordis
and
prelatis
suen
Manasses
in
these
open
sinnis
:
God
styr
hem
to
sue
Manasses
in
very
penaunce
,
and
make
a
mendis
to
God
and
men
,
leste
our
rewm
be
conquiryd
of
aliens
either
of
Heathen
men
,
for
these
open
synnis
and
many
mo
.
The.
xi
.
chapiter
.
The
fyrste
boke
of
Esdras
tel
tellyth
,
howe
Cirus
Kynge
of
Persys
yafe
lycence
to
Iewis
,
to
turn
ayen
to
Ierusalem
&
Iudee
&
bylde
the
temple
of
God
in
Ierusalem
.
And
bade
that
other
me●…e
in
his
rewme
:
shulden
helpe
to
this
bildinge
,
and
he
yafe
the
vessellis
herto
,
that
Nabugodonosore
had
taken
awaye
fro
Ierusalem
.
Than
is
telde
the
noumbre
of
hem
that
turniden
ayen
into
Iude
vnder
Iosue
the
prieste
,
the
sonne
of
Iosedeche
,
and
vnder
Zorobobell
the
Duike
.
And
howe
they
bygunnen
to
bylde
the
auter
and
the
Temple
,
and
what
lettynge
they
hadden
of
enimies
,
and
what
conforte
of
God
and
of
his
Prophetes
.
Than
it
is
telde
what
sorowe
Esdras
made
,
for
the
Princis
and
Pristes
and
commons
token
Heathen
women
to
wyfes
ayens
the
Lawe
.
And
howe
the
Princes
and
the
Puple
repentiden
mekely
and
veryly
,
&
maden
amendes
to
Godde
&
men
.
In
the
boke
of
Neemie
,
whyche
Than
the
children
of
Israel
camen
togidyr
,
in
fastynge
and
in
sackis
either
hairis
,
and
earth
was
●…n
hem
And
the
seed
of
the
sonnis
of
Israel
,
was
departid
fro
eche
Alyen
sonne
:
and
they
stoden
byfore
the
Lorde
,
and
knowlechyden
here
synne
,
and
the
wyckydnes
of
here
fadyrs
.
And
they
rysiden
to
gidir
to
st●…nd
:
and
they
readden
in
the
boke
of
the
lawe
of
here
God
.
Foure
sythys
in
the
daie
and
foure
sithis
in
the
night
:
they
knowlechyden
and
heriydē
here
Lorde
God
.
And
Dekenis
●…ryeden
wythe
greate
Uoyce
to
here
Lorde
God
,
and
baden
the
Puple
ryse
and
blesse
God
.
Than
suyth
the
solemne
confession
of
Esdras
,
howe
he
knowlechyde
fyrste
the
gloriouse
werkes
of
God
:
and
afterwarde
the
horrible
synnis
of
all
the
puple
,
and
of
here
fadyrs
.
And
than
al
the
puple
made
cou●…naūt
&
swore
to
kepe
gods
law
:
and
to
bie
not
in
the
Sabot
&
holy
daie
of
hem
that
broughten
vyteilis
to
sell.
And
they
byhyghten
to
paye
the
fyrste
frutis
to
priestis
:
and
tithis
to
Dekenys
,
and
to
brynge
all
thys
to
the
temple
of
God
.
At
the
laste
Neemie
su●…eryd
neither
Iewes
neither
Strayngars
:
sell
neyther
bye
in
the
Sabottis
.
Not
only
in
Ierusalem
:
but
neither
in
placis
nigh
the
wal●…s
.
And
he
rebukyd
and
curssyd
and
beate
menne
and
made
hem
ballyd
:
that
token
alien
women
to
here
wyfs
.
As
of
Osotus
,
of
Amon
,
and
of
Moab
.
And
chargid
hem
greately
in
the
Lord
:
that
they
shulen
not
yeue
here
doughters
to
the
sonnys
of
heathen
men
,
&
take
not
of
the
doughters
of
heathen
men
to
here
owne
sonis
&
to
hem
s●…lt
.
This
proces
of
Esdras
&
Neemi
shuld
stir
vs
to
be
bysy
to
bylde
vertuis
in
our
soule
,
after
turnyng
ayene
fro
catiftie
o●…
sinne
:
&
to
fyght
ayens
temptations
,
and
byld
faste
vertuis
,
as
they
foughten
wyth
the
toon
honde
ayens
enimies
,
and
bildidē
wyth
the
tother
honde
.
And
we
shoulden
be
full
bisy
to
kepe
the
gostly
Sabot
in
good
werks
and
heriyng
of
God
:
sithen
they
weren
so
bisy
to
kepe
the
fyguratyse
Sabot
.
Though
the
boke
of
Tobie
is
not
The
boke
of
Hester
tellith
first
,
The
boke
of
Iob
,
is
full
subtyle
And
in
all
these
thyngys
:
Iob
synnyd
not
in
hys
lyppys
.
Than
suyth
the
dysputynge
,
bytwyxt
Iob
and
hys
frindys
:
almost
tilto
the
ende
of
the
boke
.
Iob
helde
strongely
the
trueth
of
Christen
feyth
and
specially
of
risyng
ayene
of
bodys
at
domies
daye
And
his
frendis
seyden
many
truthis
and
medlidē
falsnes
,
and
euer
purposyden
an
euyll
ende
and
falsed
.
For
they
helden
that
mede
is
yeuen
onely
in
thys
lyfe
for
good
werkys
:
and
that
no
man
is
punnyshed
here
,
no
but
for
synnys
passed
.
And
as
a
man
is
punished
more
then
an
other
in
thys
lyfe
:
so
he
hath
synnyd
more
than
a nother
man
,
lesse
punished
.
But
al
this
is
false
,
as
Iob
priueth
and
Godde
confyrmyth
in
the
ende
.
For
why
,
reward
of
Good
dedis
is
mych
more
in
the
lyfe
comynge
,
than
in
present
lyfe
.
And
a
vertuouse
man
is
punnyshed
here
,
for
to
haue
mede
in
heauen
.
And
commonlye
a
iuste
man
hathe
more
trybulacion
in
this
lyfe
:
than
a
wycked
man
.
As
it
is
open
of
Chryst
that
suffrid
here
much
dysease
:
&
of
tirauntis
,
that
han
mich
prosperitte
in
this
lyfe
,
And
therfore
,
Iob
telde
hys
good
dedes
openly
,
to
confort
him selfe
ayens
dyspeyre
:
to
whyche
hys
fryndes
wolden
brynge
hyme
.
But
Iob
dyd
thys
ouer
myche
and
wyth
some
pryde
,
and
iustyfyede
hym selfe
ouermich
:
that
his
frindis
conceiuiden
that
he
blasphe
myde
God
,
and
preuyd
God
vnrygffulle
.
And
of
these
two
poyntys
,
Iob
repentyde
in
the
ende
.
Than
Godde
foryafe
to
hym
thys
lyttle
syne
,
and
appreuyde
hys
true
sentence
:
and
damnid
the
errour
of
his
aduersaries
.
Than
Iob
preied
and
made
sacrifice
for
his
aduersaries
:
and
God
hearde
hym
and
did
mercie
to
hem
.
And
Godde
addyde
all
thyngys
duble
that
Iob
hadde
.
And
he
had
.
xiiii
.
thousande
of
shepe
and.
vi
.
thousande
of
Camellis
,
and
a
thousande
yokis
of
oxen
,
and
a
thousande
Femell
Asses
,
and
seuen
sonis
&
.
iii
daughters
.
And
Iob
lyued
.
vii
.
score
yere
after
hys
turmente
&
sygh
his
sonnis
&
the
sonnis
of
hys
sonnis
tilto
the.
iiii
.
generacion
.
Thys
proces
of
Iob
shuld
styr
men
to
be
iuste
of
lyueyng
,
and
to
be
patient
in
Aduersitie
,
as
Iob
was
and
to
be
stidfaste
in
christen
feyth
,
and
answere
wysely
and
mekely
,
to
heretikis
and
aduersaries
of
ou●…
fayth
as
Peter
&
Poule
techen
:
and
euer
be
meke
and
full
of
charitie
,
and
prey
for
our
enimies
,
and
loke
after
mede
in
heauen
and
not
in
earth
,
for
our
good
dedis
.
The
Psalter
comprehendith
al
the
And
ofte
rehersyth
the
stories
of
the
olde
Testament
:
and
bryngyth
in
the
kepeyng
of
Godis
hestis
,
and
loue
of
Enimies
.
No
boke
of
the
olde
Testament
is
harder
to
vnderstondyng
to
vs
Latines
:
for
our
letter
discordith
mych
fro
the
Hebrwe
.
And
many
Doctouris
taken
lyttle
heede
to
the
letter
:
but
all
to
the
gostly
vnderstondyng
.
Well
were
hym
that
coulde
well
vnderstonde
the
Psalter
,
and
kepe
it
in
hys
lyueyng
:
and
seye
it
deuoutly
and
conuicte
Iewis
thereby
.
For
many
men
that
seyne
it
vndeuoutely
,
and
lyuen
oute
of
charitie
:
lyghen
foul
on
hemsylfe
to
God
and
blasphemen
hym
,
when
they
crien
it
full
lowde
to
mennis
Earys
in
the
Chyrche
.
Therefore
God
yeue
grace
to
vs
to
lyue
well
in
charitie
,
and
s●…y
it
deuoutely
,
and
vnderstonde
it
truely
:
and
to
teach
it
openly
to
christen
men
and
Iewis
,
and
bryng
hem
thereby
to
oure
Christen
Feyche
and
brenyng
Charitie
.
The
Prouerbis
either
Parablis
Ecclesiastes
teachith
men
to
forsake
The
songis
of
songis
,
teachen
men
to
Prouerbis
speaken
mych
of
wisdome
and
kepyng
of
Gods
hests
:
in
cōmondyng
trewe
teachyng
,
and
in
repreuyng
false
teachyng
.
And
prouerbis
teachen
mych
of
ryghtfulnes
and
iuste
domis
and
gouernaunce
:
&
of
punishyng
of
Adulterie
and
other
falsenessis
,
and
commenden
mych
iust
Lords
and
sogets
:
&
repriuen
strongly
wronful
Lords
&
rebel
sogettis
.
Also
Prouerbis
teachen
derkly
,
the
mysteries
of
Christe
and
of
holy
Chirch
:
and
teachen
mych
wisdome
and
prudence
for
the
soul
and
the
bodye
.
Therfore
Lords
and
comeners
also
,
and
namely
priestis
,
shulen
study
well
thys
boke
:
and
rule
hemsilfe
therby
to
saluation
of
body
&
of
soull
.
Ecclesiastes
is
a
full
sotill
boke
.
The
songis
of
songis
techen
derklye
,
the
state
of
the
Sinagoge
,
fro
the
goyng
out
of
Egypt
,
tylto
Christis
incarnation
and
passion
.
And
than
tho
songis
teachen
the
state
of
Christis
chyrch
and
of
the
Synagoge
in
the
ende
of
the
worlde
:
and
treaten
hyghlye
of
loue
to
God
and
neyghbouris
also
,
And
thys
boke
is
so
sotle
to
vnderstond
:
that
Iewis
ordeyniden
that
no
man
should
studye
it
,
no
but
he
were
of
.
xxx
.
yere
,
and
had
able
wyt
to
vnderstond
the
gostli
pryuities
of
thys
boke
.
For
some
of
the
boke
semith
to
fleshly
men
,
to
sow
vnclene
loue
of
lecherie
:
where
it
tellyth
hygh
gostly
loue
,
and
great
priuities
of
Christe
and
of
hys
chyrch
.
Therfore
,
men
moten
be
full
well
ware
:
to
conceyue
well
the
wordis
of
the
Holygoste
in
thys
boke
,
and
knowe
whan
Christ
speakyth
to
the
chyrch
either
to
the
Synagoge
,
and
whan
the
Sinagog
speakith
to
God
and
whanne
the
chyrche
speaketh
to
Chryste
.
And
whan
God
speakyth
to
Angelis
,
Patriarkis
,
&
prophets
and
Apostles
:
&
whan
these
persons
speaken
to
the
synagoge
,
eyther
to
the
chyrche
,
either
ayen
warde
.
The
boke
of
wisdome
,
though
it
be
Thoughe
Ecclesiasticus
be
no
boke
of
beleue
:
it
teacheth
mich
wysdome
At
the
last
it
commendith
good
men
,
and
heriyth
God
,
that
deliuerith
fro
all
perilis
.
If
thys
boke
be
well
vnderstond
:
it
is
profitable
both
to
gost
ly
gouernouris
,
and
bodily
Lordis
and
Iusticis
,
and
Comins
also
.
The
Prophetis
han
a
general
Prolog
for
all
.
And
for
I
declarid
some
dell
the
great
Prophets
and
in
partie
the
smal
Prophetis
:
and
thyncke
sone
to
make
an
ende
(
with
Godes
helpe
)
of
the
Glose
of
the
smal
Prophetis
:
I
thynke
now
to
passe
ouir
wythouten
any
tariyng
.
The
first
boke
of
Machabeis
,
tellith
And
women
that
circū●…ididen
here
chyldren
:
weren
slayne
by
commaundement
of
Antioke
the
Kyng
.
And
thei
hangiden
chyldren
by
the
neckis
,
by
all
the
houses
of
men
of
Israell
,
and
kyllyden
hem
that
circumcididen
chyldren
.
Than
arose
Matathias
the
pryst
and
fled
fro
Ierusalem
into
Modin
and
byweilede
greatly
thys
distryynge
of
the
puple
,
of
the
temple
and
citie
,
and
of
al
the
lond
.
And
he
ayene
stode
the
Kynge
and
hys
ministers
:
and
kyllid
the
Kingis
ministres
that
cōpelliden
men
to
do
Idolatry
.
And
he
killid
a
man
that
did
Idolatri
on
the
auter
:
&
dystried
the
auter
wheron
Idolatrie
was
done
.
Than
Matathias
and
hys
sonnys
fledden
into
hyllis
:
and
leften
all
thyngis
whych
they
hadden
in
the
Cittie
.
And
mani
men
that
soughten
dome
&
ryghtfulnes
:
and
wolden
kepe
Gods
Lawe
:
camen
to
hem
into
deserte
.
Heathen
men
made
wars
on
hem
in
Sabates
:
and
manye
dieden
in
here
simplenes
,
for
thei
nolden
make
battel
in
Sabatis
.
Than
manie
Iewis
weren
gaderyd
to
hym
and
maden
a
greate
Ooste
,
and
weren
redye
to
fyght
in
Sabattis
and
thei
kylliden
synnars
in
greate
wrath
.
And
Matathias
and
hys
fryndes
compassiden
and
dystrieden
auters
,
and
circumcididen
chyldren
,
whych
they
founden
in
al
the
coastis
of
Israell
.
And
they
pursuiden
the
chyldren
of
pryde
:
and
the
werke
hadde
prosperitie
in
his
hondis
.
And
they
gotten
the
law
fro
the
honds
of
heathen
men
and
of
kyngs
:
&
yeauen
not
strength
to
the
sinful
man
.
And
whan
Matathias
was
in
poynte
of
Death
:
he
comfortyd
hys
sonnis
to
put
here
lyues
for
the
law
of
God
,
bi
ensample
of
Abraham
and
other
holy
men
byfore
goyng
.
And
he
ordeynid
Iudas
Machabeus
to
be
Duke
of
bateyl
:
and
ordeynid
Simont
hys
sonne
to
be
Fadyr
and
priest
to
hem
,
for
he
was
a
man
of
counsell
.
Than
bene
tolde
manye
batteylys
of
Iudas
Machabeus
ayens
heathen
men
:
and
of
great
vyc
torie
bi
Goddis
help
.
Than
Iudas
Machabeus
made
frendshyp
wyth
Romaynis
for
her
prudence
,
ryghtfulnes
&
powre
.
And
whan
Iudas
was
deade
in
batteyle
:
the
puple
ordeined
Ionathas
hys
brother
theyr
prynce
and
Duke
for
to
hollde
war
ayens
heathen
men
.
Than
ben
telde
many
bateils
of
Ionathas
&
vyctories
:
whyche
he
had
ayens
heathen
men
.
Than
Ionathas
after
many
vyctories
:
sente
to
frenshyppe
wyth
Romayns
and
Sparcyatys
that
weren
of
the
Kynne
of
Iewis
.
And
Ionathas
and
hys
sonnis
weren
slayne
at
the
laste
bi
treasonne
of
Trifon
,
that
was
an
heathen
manne
and
myghtie
Duke
.
Than
Simont
was
made
Duke
of
the
Puple
:
and
in
the
styd
of
Iudas
Machabeus
&
of
Ionathas
,
and
he
dyd
many
bat
teylis
and
strong
,
&
had
great
victories
ayens
heathen
men
.
And
Iewis
hadden
much
reste
vnder
hym
:
and
he
made
stronge
holdys
and
cy●…yes
in
Iuda
.
And
he
renullyde
frendship
wyth
Romaynis
and
Sparciatys
,
and
hade
mych
glorye
of
hys
folke
and
of
heathen
Kyngys
.
And
at
the
laste
Symont
and
his
sonnis
weren
slayne
by
treasone
:
and
Iohn
hys
sonne
was
Prynce
of
priestys
after
hys
fathe●…ys
dayes
,
and
dyd
manye
bateyls
ayens
heathen
men
.
The
seconde
Boke
of
Machabeys
:
tellyth
mych
the
same
sentence
of
the
fyrste
boke
,
and
hath
a
fewe
speciall
poynts
of
Eliodorus
and
of
Eliazarus
,
and
of
the
noble
Wydo
we
and
hyr
seuen
sonnis
.
Eliodorus
was
sente
of
the
Kynge
to
take
awaie
the
treasuris
of
the
Temple
of
Ierusalem
,
and
bere
tho
to
the
Kynge
.
And
thoughe
the
treasourys
weren
kepte
for
the
lyfelode
of
Wyddowes
and
fatherlesse
chyldren
,
and
some
weren
another
manys
goodis
.
Eliodorus
wolde
algate
beare
al
to
the
Kynge
.
But
God
made
hym
&
hys
felowis
sore
aferd
,
And
Elidorus
was
beaten
almost
to
death
,
of
a
ferdful
one
sytynge
on
an
horsse
,
that
hade
two
younge
men
aboute
him
.
And
Elio
dorus
was
cast
downe
to
the
ground
and
was
borne
out
on
a
bere
and
ley
doumb●…
.
And
whan
the
hyghste
Prieste
offrid
sacrifice
and
preied
for
the
helth
of
Eliodorus
:
God
grauntyd
lyfe
to
hym
.
And
he
thankyde
God
and
the
hygheste
priste
:
and
yede
to
the
King
and
tolde
hym
howe
it
stode
.
And
he
wytnessid
to
al
men
the
greate
werkis
of
God
:
whych
he
had
sene
with
hys
iyen
.
Than
is
tolde
of
the
curssyd
dedys
of
Iason
the
prieste
,
that
came
in
by
Simonie
,
and
woulde
brynge
the
Iewis
to
Idolatrie
and
Sodomitie
,
and
to
forsake
God
and
hys
Lawe
.
Than
is
tolde
of
the
greate
crueltye
of
Antiochus
whych
he
dyde
ayens
the
Iewes
and
the
holie
place
of
Ierusalem
:
and
God
suffrede
thys
for
the
synnes
of
the
puple
,
for
why
God
chees
not
folke
for
the
place
,
but
the
place
for
the
folke
.
Than
Eleazarus
cheese
to
dye
a
sharpe
Death
:
rather
that
he
woulde
breke
Goddys
lawe
in
a
litle
pointe
to
eatte
porke
,
yea
to
feyne
to
eate
porke
.
After
thys
it
sueth
howe
the
blyssyd
wyde
we
and
hyr
.
vii
.
sonnys
weren
martyryd
for
they
noldenne
breake
Goddis
lawe
:
and
howe
gloriously
the
blessede
mother
comforted
hein
,
to
take
Death
with
ioye
for
the
law
of
God
.
Thys
story
of
Machabeys
shoulde
styr
Christen
men
to
holde
Goddys
law
to
life
&
to
death
.
And
if
knights
shulen
vse
the
swerd
ayens
any
curssyd
men
they
shoulden
vse
it
ayens
lords
and
pryestis
principally
,
that
wolden
compel
men
for
drede
of
prisone
and
death
to
forsake
the
trueth
and
fredome
of
Christis
gospel
.
But
God
for
hys
greate
mercie
,
yeue
verye
repentaunce
to
hem
that
thus
pursuen
tru
men
:
and
graunte
patience
,
mekenes
and
charitie
to
hem
that
benne
thus
pursuyd
.
Amen
.
The.
xii
Chapiter
.
But
it
is
to
wytte
,
that
holy
scripture
hath
.
iiii
.
vnderstondyngis
.
Literal
,
Moral
Aligorike
,
&
Anagogike
.
The
Literal
vnderstondyng
teachith
the
thynge
done
in
dede
.
And
litteral
vnderstandynge
is
ground
and
foundement
of
.
iii.
gostli
vnderstondingis
In
so
mych
as
Austen
in
hys
Epistle
to
Uincent
&
other
doctours
seyne
.
Only
by
the
lytteral
vnderstondyng
a
man
maie
argu
ayens
an
aduersari
.
Aligorike
is
a
gostli
vndirstōding
that
teachyth
what
thyng
men
owen
to
beleue
of
Chryste
eyther
of
holye
Churche
.
Morall
,
is
a
gostly
vnderstandyng
that
teachyth
menne
what
vertues
they
owen
to
sue
,
and
what
vyces
they
owne
to
flee
.
Anagogik
,
is
a
gostly
vnderstandynge
that
teacheth
men
what
blisse
they
shullenne
haue
in
heauen
.
And
thes.
iiii
.
vnderstondingys
moune
be
taken
in
thys
worde
Ierusalem
.
For
why
,
to
the
literall
vnderstondynge
it
sygnifieth
an
earthly
cytie
,
as
London
or
such
an
other
.
To
Alygorye
it
syngnyfyeth
holy
churche
in
earth
y●
fytyth
ayens
sennis
and
Fendis
.
To
morall
vnderstonding
,
it
singnifyeth
a
Christen
sowlle
.
To
anagogike
it
sygnifyeth
holy
church
reynyng
in
blysse
,
eyther
in
heauen
,
and
tho
that
benne
therin
.
And
these
three
Gostlye
vnderstondyngis
ben
not
autentike
,
either
of
beleue
:
no
but
tho
ben
growndyd
openly
in
the
text
of
holy
Scripture
in
oo
place
ether
in
other
,
either
in
open
reason
that
may
not
be
distryid
▪
Either
whan
the
Gospelars
either
other
Apostles
:
take
Allegorie
of
the
olde
Testament
and
confirmen
it
.
As
Poul
in
the
Epistil
to
Galathies
the.
iiii
.
chapiter
,
preuyth
,
that
Sarai
the
fre
wyfe
and
principall
of
Abraham
,
wyth
Isaac
hyr
sonne
:
signifieth
by
Alegorie
,
the
newe
Testament
,
and
the
sonnis
of
byhest
.
And
Agar
the
handmayde
with
hyr
sonne
Ismael
:
signifieth
by
Alegory
the
olde
Testament
,
and
fleshly
men
that
shulen
not
be
receyuyd
into
the
heritage
of
God
,
wyth
the
sonnis
of
byheste
,
that
holden
the
trewth
and
fredome
of
Christis
Gospeil
wyth
endelesse
Charitie
.
Also
holy
Scripture
hath
manye
figuratife
speachis
.
And
as
Austin
seyeth
in
the
thryd
boke
of
christen
teachyng
:
that
Autours
of
holy
Scriture
vsen
moe
figuris
,
that
is
moe
figuratyfe
speachis
,
than
gramariens
moune
gesse
that
readen
not
the
figurys
in
holye
Scripture
.
It
is
to
be
ware
in
the
begynyng
:
that
we
take
not
to
the
Letter
a
figuratyfe
speach
.
For
than
(
as
Poule
seythe
)
the
Letter
sleayth
:
but
the
Spirite
,
that
is
Gostly
vnderstondyng
,
quyckennythe
.
For
whanne
a
thynge
whyche
is
seyed
figuratyfely
,
is
taken
so
as
if
it
be
seyed
propirly
:
me
vnderstondyth
fleshly
.
And
none
is
clepyd
more
couenable
the
Death
of
Soull
:
than
whan
vnderstonding
that
passith
Beastis
,
is
made
sogette
to
the
fleshe
in
suyng
the
Letter
.
Whateuer
thyng
in
Gods
worde
may
not
be
referrid
propirli
to
honestie
and
vertuis
,
neither
to
the
truth
of
feyth
:
it
is
figuratife
speach
.
Honesti
of
vertuis
perteinith
to
the
loue
of
God
and
our
neyghbours
.
Truth
of
feyth
perteynith
to
knowe
God
and
thy
neighboure
.
Holy
scripture
commaundith
nothyng
but
charitie
:
it
blamith
nothyng
no
but
couetise
.
And
in
that
maner
it
enformith
the
good
vertus
either
the
good
conditions
of
men
.
Holy
scripture
affirmith
nothing
:
no
but
christen
feith
,
by
thyngis
passid
,
present
,
and
to
commyng
.
All
these
thyngis
perteinen
to
nourish
charitie
and
make
it
strong
,
and
to
ouircome
&
quench
couetise
.
Also
it
is
figuratife
speache
:
where
the
wordis
maken
Allegorie
,
either
a
dearke
lykenes
either
a
Parable
.
And
it
is
figuratife
speach
in
the
first
chapter
of
Ieremie
.
To
daie
I
haue
ordeinid
the
on
folckis
and
rewmis
:
that
thou
drawe
vp
by
the
rote
and
dystry
and
bylde
and
plante
.
That
is
,
that
thou
drawe
out
olde
synnis
,
and
dystry
circomstauncis
either
causis
of
tho
:
and
bylde
vertuis
&
plant
good
werckis
and
customis
.
Al
thyngis
in
holy
scripture
that
semen
to
vnwise
men
to
be
ful
of
wykidnes
ayens
a
man
himsilfe
ether
ayens
his
neyghboure
:
ben
figuratife
spechis
,
and
the
priuities
eyther
gostly
vnderstondyngis
shulden
be
sought
oute
of
vs
,
to
the
fedyng
eyther
kepyng
of
Charitie
.
Such
a
rule
shal
he
kepte
in
figuratife
spechis
,
that
so
loug
it
be
turnid
●…n
mynde
by
diligent
consyderation
:
tyl
the
expownyng
either
the
vnderstondyng
be
brought
to
the
rewme
of
Charitie
.
And
if
any
speach
of
scriptur
sowne
propitly
Charitie
:
it
o
with
not
to
be
gessid
a
figuratife
spech
.
And
if
it
for
byd
wickidnes
either
commaunde
profite
either
good
doyng
:
it
is
no
figuratife
speach
.
If
it
seme
to
commaunde
crueltie
either
wyckidnes
,
eyther
to
for
byd
profyte
eyther
good
doinge
:
it
is
a
fyguratife
spech
.
Christe
seith
If
ye
eatten
not
the
fleshe
of
manis
sonne
,
&
drynken
not
hys
bloud
:
you
shoullen
not
haue
lyfe
in
you
.
Thys
speache
semyth
to
commaunde
wyckidnes
eyther
crueltye
:
therfore
it
is
a
fyguratyfe
speache
,
and
commaundith
men
to
commune
wyth
Christis
passi
on
,
and
to
kepe
in
mynde
swetly
and
profinablie
,
that
Christis
flech
was
woundid
and
crucifiede
for
vs
.
Also
whan
holy
scryptur
seyth
.
If
thyne
enimie
hunger
,
fede
thou
hym
,
if
he
thryste
:
geue
thou
drynke
to
hym
:
it
commaundyth
benefyte
eyther
good
doynge
.
Whan
it
seyth
,
thou
shalte
gather
togyther
coles
on
his
heade
:
it
semith
that
wickednes
of
euyl
wil
is
commaundyd
.
Thys
is
seyd
by
fyguratyfe
speach
:
that
thou
vnderstoud
that
the
coolis
of
fyre
,
ben
brenyng
weilyngis
either
mourningis
of
pennaunce
:
by
whych
the
pryde
of
hym
is
made
whole
,
whyche
soroweith
that
he
was
enimie
of
that
man
,
that
helpith
and
releuith
his
wrechednes
Also
the
same
worde
,
either
the
same
thynge
in
Scripture
:
is
taken
some
tyme
in
good
and
some
tyme
in
Euyll
.
As
a
Lion
signifiyth
some
tyme
Christe
:
and
in
an
other
place
it
signifith
the
deuil
.
Also
sowr
dough
is
set
some
time
in
euil
:
wher
Christ
seith
,
beware
of
the
sowre
dough
of
the
Phariseis
,
which
is
Hypocrisie
.
Sowre
dough
is
set
also
in
good
:
whan
Christe
seyth
,
the
rewme
of
heauens
is
lyke
sowre
dough
&c.
And
whan
not
oo
thyng
alone
but
tweyne
eyther
moe
ben
felyd
eyther
vnderstonden
by
the
same
wordis
of
scripture
,
though
it
be
hyd
that
he
vnderstode
that
wrote
:
it
is
no
peryle
if
it
maye
be
preuid
by
other
placis
of
holy
scripture
,
that
ech
of
the
things
accordith
wyth
truth
,
and
in
hap
the
autour
of
scripture
seith
the
ilke
sentence
in
the
same
wordis
,
which
we
wolen
vnderstonde
.
And
certis
the
Spirite
of
God
that
wrought
these
thyngis
by
the
Autour
of
scripture
:
byfore
seeth
wythouten
doubt
that
the
ilke
sentence
shulde
come
to
the
readar
either
to
the
hearar
.
Yea
the
Holygoste
purueied
that
that
ilke
sentence
(
for
it
is
groundid
on
truth
)
shuld
come
to
the
redadar
,
either
hearar
.
For
what
myghte
be
purueyed
of
God
largelyer
and
plētuouselyer
in
Gods
spechis
:
than
that
the
same
wordis
be
vnderstonden
in
many
maners
:
which
maners
other
wordis
of
God
that
ben
not
of
lesse
autoritie
,
make
to
be
preuid
?
Austine
in
the.
iii.
boke
of
christen
teachyng
,
seyth
all
thys
and
myche
more
in
the
bygynyng
therof
.
Also
he
,
whose
herte
is
full
of
charitie
:
comprehendith
wythouten
any
erroure
,
the
manifold
aboundaunce
,
&
largist
teching
of
Gods
scripture
.
For
why
,
Paul
seith
.
The
fulnes
of
law
is
chariti
.
And
in
an
other
place
The
ende
of
law
(
that
is
perfection
eyther
,
fyllynge
of
the
lawe
)
is
charitie
of
clene
herte
and
of
good
conscience
and
of
feyth
not
feynyde
.
And
Iesu
Chryst
seyth
.
Thou
shalte
loue
thy
lorde
God
of
al
thyne
herte
,
and
of
al
thy
soule
and
of
al
thy
mynde
:
and
thy
neighbour
as
thy selfe
.
For
in
thes
two
commaundementis
,
hangith
all
the
lawe
and
the
prophetis
.
And
as
the
rote
of
all
euillis
is
couetyse
:
so
the
rote
of
al
goodnes
is
charitie
.
Charitie
by
which
we
louen
God
and
the
neghbour
:
holdyth
sykerlye
al
the
greatnes
&
largenes
of
Gods
speachis
.
Therfore
,
if
it
is
not
leisure
to
seke
al
holi
scripturs
,
to
expowne
al
the
wlappings
of
words
,
to
perse
all
the
priuities
of
scrypturis
:
holde
thou
charite
wher
al
thyngis
hang
,
so
thou
shalte
holde
that
,
that
thou
lernidest
there
.
Also
thou
shalt
holde
that
,
that
thou
lernydiste
not
.
For
if
thou
knowe
charitie
:
thou
knoweste
somthynge
wheron
also
that
hangyth
,
that
in
hap
thou
knowiste
not
.
And
in
that
that
thou
vnderstondist
in
scriptur
:
charitie
is
open
,
and
in
that
that
thou
vnderstondysie
not
,
charitie
is
hyd
.
Therfor
,
he
that
holdith
charitie
in
vertuys
either
in
good
condicions
:
holdyth
boeth
that
,
that
is
open
and
that
,
that
is
hid
in
Goddis
wordis
.
Austyne
seyth
al
thys
and
mich
more
in
a
sermon
of
the
preising
of
charitie
.
Also
.
vii
.
rue●…is
of
Tyco
,
nie
and
of
Austine
:
declar●…n
manye
thyngis
of
holie
scripturis
.
The
firstrule
is
of
Iesu
Christe
and
of
his
holi
spirite
.
Do
persone
of
the
head
&
of
the
bodie
,
that
is
of
Christ
and
of
holy
chyrche
:
is
shewid
to
vs
in
this
rule
.
For
it
is
not
seid
in
vain
to
feythful
men
,
ye
bene
the
seede
of
Abraham
:
whan
there
is
●…o
seede
of
Abraham
,
whych
seede
is
Chryste
.
Dout
we
not
,
when
scriptur
goth
fro
the
hed
to
the
bodi
,
ether
fro
the
bodi
to
the
hed
,
&
netheles
it
goth
not
awey
fro
one
&
the
same
persone
.
For
w●…ye
oo
persone
spekith
in
Esai
.
He
settid
a
mi●…er
to
me
as
to
a
spouse
:
&
he
hono
rid
me
as
a
spouses
,
with
an
ornament
.
And
nethles
it
is
to
vnderstond
,
what
of
these
.
ii
.
accordith
to
the
hed
,
that
is
Christ
:
&
what
accordith
to
the
bodi
,
that
is
holi
chirch
.
For
wh●…a
myter
accordith
to
Christ
which
is
the
spouse
:
&
an
ornament
acordith
to
holi
chirch
,
which
is
the
spouses
of
Chryst.
The.
ii
,
rule
,
as
Ticonie
seith
,
is
of
the
bodi
of
Christ
:
which
bodi
is
departyd
into
tweyne
.
But
certis
th●…s
bodie
of
Christe
ought
not
to
be
clepid
so
.
For
trulye
it
is
not
the
bo●…i
of
Christe
:
wh●…che
shal
not
be
with
him
without
end
.
But
it
shal
be
seid
of
the
veri
body
&
of
the
medlid
bodi
of
Christ
,
ether
of
the
veri
bodi
&
of
the
feinid
bodi
of
Christ
.
For
why
,
hypocritis
shoullen
be
seid
to
be
not
wyth
Chryste
,
not
onelye
withouten
end
:
but
also
now
,
though
they
semen
to
bee
in
the
Churche
of
Chryst.
Wherefore
,
this
rule
might
be
clepyd
thus
:
that
it
were
seyde
of
the
medlid
chyrch
that
is
that
comprehendyth
chosen
men
to
blisse
,
and
also
Hipocritis
that
shoulen
be
damnid
.
And
this
rule
axeth
a
waking
ether
dylygente
reader
.
Whan
it
speakyth
of
other
men
,
it
semith
to
speak
nowe
as
to
the
same
men
whych
it
speake
before
.
Either
it
semyth
to
speake
of
the
same
men
:
whane
it
speakyth
of
other
men
,
as
if
oo
body
be
of
euereither
,
for
temporall
medlynge
,
and
communynge
of
Sacramentys
.
To
thys
rule
it
perteyneth
that
the
chirch
seyth
in
songis
of
Songys
:
I
am
blacke
and
fayre
,
as
the
tabernacles
of
Cedar
,
as
the
skynnys
of
Solomon
.
The
Churche
seyde
that
she
is
euereither
for
temporal
vnitie
wythin
oo
nette
of
good
fyshys
,
and
of
euyll
fyshes
.
For
whye
,
the
tabernacles
of
Cedar
,
perteinen
to
Ismaell
,
that
shall
not
be
Heyre
wyth
the
sonne
of
the
free
wyfe
,
The
thyrde
rule
is
of
byheestis
and
lawe
.
Thys
rule
maye
be
sayd
also
of
the
spirite
and
letter
:
and
maye
be
sayde
also
of
grace
,
and
of
commaundemente
.
And
Ticonie
errid
in
seying
,
that
wercks
ben
yeuen
to
vs
of
God
for
merite
of
feyth
:
but
feyth
it selfe
is
so
of
vs
,
that
it
is
not
of
God
to
vs
.
The
fourth
ruele
is
of
all
and
of
partye
.
Whan
some
of
a
thing
is
set
for
all
,
eyther
ayenwarde
,
all
is
sette
for
a
partie
.
The.
v.
rule
is
of
tymes
.
And
thys
is
by
a
fygure
clepyd
Sinodoches
,
whan
the
parte
is
set
for
all
,
eyther
al
is
set
for
a
parte
.
One
Euangelyste
seyth
that
it
was
done
after
.
viii
.
dayes
:
whannethe
face
of
Christe
shynyde
as
the
sunne
.
And
an
other
gospeller
seith
,
that
it
was
done
aftir
.
vi
.
dais
.
Euerether
might
not
be
forth
that
is
seyde
of
the
numbre
of
dai●…
〈◊〉
but
n●…
that
seid
aftir
.
viii
.
dais
,
be
〈◊〉
●…en
to
haue
set
for
the
whole
daie
,
the
last
parte
of
the
daye
syth
Christ
biforesei●…
it
to
come
,
and
to
haue
set
for
the
whole
daye
the
first
part
of
the
daie
,
in
the
which
he
shewith
that
the
apearing
of
Christs
face
was
fully
done
.
And
that
he
that
seyde
,
aftir
vi
.
dais
,
reckenyd
all
the
whole
daies
&
the
midle
days
&
none
other
,
By
thys
kynde
of
spech
by
whyche
kynd
al
is
singnified
bi
a
part
:
the
ilk
question
of
Christis
rysynge
ayene
is
assoyled
.
The
last
parte
of
the
day
wyth
the
nyght
passed
before
,
and
the
fyrste
parte
of
the
sundaye
in
whose
morowe
tyde
he
rose
ayene
:
is
taken
for
al
sundaye
and
the
nyght
before
goynge
.
And
the
Sabot
wyth
the
whole
nyght
byfore
goynge
is
al
an
whole
daie
and
night
.
If
these
daies
and
nyghtys
were
not
taken
thus
:
there
moute
not
be
.
iii.
dayes
and
thre
nyghtis
,
in
which
he
byforseyde
that
he
shoulde
be
in
the
herte
of
the
earth
.
Also
this
rule
of
tymes
is
taken
for
lawful
numbres
as
ben
.
vii
.
x.
xii
.
and
such
mo
.
For
ofte
suche
noumbris
ben
set
for
all
tyme
,
as
thys
that
Dauid
seyth
.
Seuensytis
in
the
daye
,
I
seyd
preisynge
eyther
he
riyng
to
the
,
is
none
other
thyng
than
thus
Hys
heriyng
be
euer
in
my
mouth
.
Also
by
an
.
C.
&
.
xliii
.
in
Apocal:
is
signified
the
vniuersitie
ether
al
the
multitud
of
seintis
.
The
vi
.
rule
is
of
recapitulation
,
either
rehersing
a
thing
done
bifore
:
not
in
order
as
it
is
set
,
for
whi
some
things
been
seid
so
,
as
if
tho
●…uen
in
the
order
of
time
,
ether
been
teld
bi
continuing
things
,
that
been
ioynid
next
togidir
,
whan
the
teling
is
clepid
priuily
to
the
former
things
that
weren
lefte
oute
.
And
if
men
vnderstonden
not
such
seiyng
is
by
this
rule
:
thei
erren
.
As
in
genesis
,
it
is
seyde
.
God
plantid
paradise
in
Eden
at
the
east
,
and
settyd
there
the
man
that
he
formyd
.
And
Godde
brought
forth
yet
of
the
earth
ech
fayre
tree
&c.
This
is
seyd
by
recapitulation
.
In
lyke
manner
,
ther
the
londe
was
of
oon
lyppe
,
that
is
speache
:
it
is
seid
●…i
recapitulacion
The
vii
,
rule
is
of
the
deuyle
and
of
hys
bodye
.
For
he
is
head
of
al
wickyde
men
,
that
●…ene
hys
boddye
in
a
maner
,
and
shulen
go
wyth
him
into
torment
&
euerlasting
fire
:
as
Christ
is
the
heade
of
holy
chyrche
which
is
hys
bodie
,
and
shall
be
wyth
hym
in
rewme
and
glorie
euerlastinge
.
Also
they
that
han
lykynge
to
studie
in
holye
wrytte
:
shulen
be
chargyde
that
they
kunne
the
kyndys
and
maners
of
speakyngs
in
holy
scripturis
and
that
they
perceyuen
dylygentlye
and
holdenne
well
in
mynde
,
howe
a
thyng
is
wont
to
be
seid
in
holi
scripture
.
Also
,
that
is
souerayne
helpe
and
moste
nedefull
:
preye
theye
that
God
yeue
to
hem
the
verye
vnderstondynge
of
holye
Scrypture
For
they
readen
in
tho
scripturis
,
about
which
they
been
studiouse
:
that
God
yeuith
wisedome
and
cunning
&
vnderstonding
of
his
face
,
that
is
yift
and
grace
.
Also
if
here
study
be
done
wyth
mekenes
&
loue
of
christen
lore
,
it
is
of
God
.
Austine
wrytith
al
thys
in
.
iii.
boke
of
christen
teachyng
aboute
the
middle
and
in
the
ende
.
I
sidre
in
the
fyrste
boke
of
souerayne
good
:
teach
these
rules
shortlyer
,
but
I
haue
hym
not
nowe
.
And
Lire
in
the
bygynynge
of
the
Bible
:
touchyth
more
openly
these
rulis
,
but
I
haue
him
not
nowe
.
And
Armacan
in
the
beginyng
of
his
boke
Dequestionibus
Armenotū
.
yeuith
many
good
growndis
to
vnderstond
holy
scripture
to
the
letter
and
gostly
vnderstondynge
also
:
but
I
haue
him
not
now
.
Also
nothing
maiseme
to
be
wyser
,
nothynge
of
more
Eloquence
:
than
is
holy
scripture
,
&
the
autors
therof
that
weren
enspirid
of
God
.
And
they
oughten
not
to
speake
in
other
maner
than
thei
dyden
.
And
the
Pro
phetis
(
&
most
Amos
)
weren
full
eloquent
.
And
Paul
was
full
eloquent
in
his
Epistlis
.
Also
the
authours
of
holy
Scripture
spaken
full
dearkly
,
that
the
preuities
therof
ben
hyd
to
vnfeythfull
men
,
and
good
men
ben
exercisid
either
occupied
,
and
that
in
expownynge
holy
Scripture
,
they
haue
a
nwe
grace
diuers
fro
the
first
autours
,
Austine
in
the
beginning
of
the.
iiii
.
boke
of
christen
teachynge
.
Also
as
the
little
rychesse
of
Iewis
whiche
they
baren
awey
fro
Egypt
weren
in
comparison
of
richesse
which
they
hadden
afterwarde
in
Ierusalem
in
the
tyme
of
Solomon
,
so
great
is
the
profytable
kunnynge
of
phylosophers
bokis
,
if
it
be
comparisoned
to
the
kynnynge
of
holye
scripturis
.
For
why
,
what
thynge
euer
a
man
●…earneth
withouten
holy
wryt
,
if
the
thing
be
veyne
,
it
is
damnyd
in
holi
writ
,
if
it
be
profitavle
,
it
is
foū
did
ther.
And
whan
a
man
findith
ther
al
things
which
he
lernid
profitably
in
or
〈◊〉
place
,
he
shal
find
mich
more
plēt●…ly
tho
thingis
in
holy
scripture
,
which
he
lernyd
neuer
in
other
place
,
but
be
lerned
onli
in
the
wonderful
highnes
&
in
the
wonderful
meknes
of
holy
scriptur
.
Austine
seith
this
in
the
end
of
the
.ii
.
boke
of
christen
teching
.
Also
holy
scripture
conteinith
al
profy
table
trueth
&
al
other
sciencis
preuily
in
the
vertue
of
wyttis
either
vndurstādingis
,
as
wynes
ben
conteyned
in
grapis
,
as
ripe
corne
is
conteined
in
the
seede
,
as
bowis
ben
conteyned
in
the
rotis
,
&
as
trees
bene
conteyned
in
the
kiruels
.
Grosted
in
a
sermon
.
Premouitus
a
venerabili
patre
.
Also
ho
ly
scriptur
wlatith
sophimis
&
seith
.
He
that
speakyth
sophistically
eyther
by
Sophisinis
:
shal
be
hatfull
,
&
he
shal
be
defraudid
in
eche
thyng
,
as
the
wise
man
seyth
in
the.
xxxvii
.
Chapiter
of
Ecclesiasticus
.
If
Philosophers
,
and
moste
the
distiples
of
Plato
,
seyden
any
truth
is
and
profitable
to
our
feyth
:
not
only
tho
truthis
owen
not
to
be
drede
:
but
also
tho
shulen
be
calengyd
into
oure
vse
either
profyte
fro
hem
,
as
fro
vniuste
possessouris
.
And
as
Iewis
token
by
autoritie
of
God
,
the
golde
and
clothis
of
Egyptians
:
so
Christians
owen
to
take
the
trwe
seyingis
of
Hhilosophers
,
for
to
worship
oo
God
,
and
of
techyng
of
vertuis
.
Whych
truth
is
the
Philosophers
founden
not
,
but
dyggiden
oute
of
the
metalis
of
Gods
purueyaunce
,
whych
is
shed
euerie
where
.
So
dyd
Ciprian
the
swetest
Doctoure
and
most
blessed
martyr
.
So
did
Lactantius
,
Uictorinus
,
and
,
Illarie
,
and
Grekis
wythouten
noumber
.
Austyne
in
the.
ii
.
boke
of
christen
teachyng
.
By
these
rulis
of
Anstine
&
by
.
iiii
.
vnder
stondyng
is
of
holy
scripture
,
&
by
wise
knowyng
of
figuratife
speachis
,
wyth
good
lyuyng
and
mekenes
and
studiyng
of
the
Bible
:
simple
men
moune
somedeal
vnderstond
the
text
of
holy
write
,
&
edifie
myche
hemsylfe
and
other
men
.
But
for
gods
loue
ye
simple
men
beth
ware
of
pryde
,
and
veyne
ianglynge
and
chydyng
in
wordis
ayens
proude
clerkis
of
scholis
and
veyne
religiouse
,
&
answere
ye
mekely
and
prudently
,
to
enimies
of
Gods
lawe
and
prey
ye
hertli
for
hem
,
that
God
for
hys
great
mercie
yeue
to
hem
verie
knowing
of
scripturis
and
mekenes
and
charitie
.
And
euer
be
ye
redy
what
man
teachith
any
trueth
of
God
:
to
take
that
mekely
,
and
wyth
greate
thankis
to
God
.
And
if
any
man
in
earth
either
angel
of
heauen
techith
you
the
contrarie
of
holy
write
,
either
any
thyng
ayens
reason
&
charitye
,
fle
fro
him
in
that
,
as
fro
the
foule
fend
of
hel
&
hold
ye
stedfastly
to
life
&
death
,
the
trueth
&
fredom
of
the
holy
gospel
of
Iesu
Christ
▪
and
take
ye
mekely
menis
seyingis
&
lawis
,
only
in
as
miche
as
they
accorden
with
holy
wryte
&
good
consciences
,
&
no
ferther
,
for
lyfe
neyther
for
death
.
The.
xiii
.
Chap.
ALso
holy
Scripture
is
better
knowne
by
lyknesses
,
&
by
derknessys
it
doeth
awaye
anoies
.
And
we
owen
to
thyncke
,
and
bileue
that
the
thinge
that
is
wrytten
in
holy
scryptur
,
yea
though
it
be
hyd
either
not
knowen
,
is
better
and
truer
,
than
that
we
moune
vnderstond
bi
vss●…lfe
,
&
worship
fulli
&
helthfuli
the
holi
gost
mesurid
so
holy
scripturs
▪
that
in
open
placis
he
settid
remedi
to
our
honger
,
&
in
darke
placis
he
wipt
awei
anoies
.
For
almost
nothing
is
seene
in
tho
dearkenessis
,
which
thyng
is
not
founden
seid
full
plainli
in
other
placis
.
Therfore
,
byfore
al
things
it
is
nedful
that
a
man
be
conuertid
by
Gods
drede
,
&
be
mylde
by
piti
either
christen
religion
,
&
that
he
ayense●…e
not
holy
Scripture
where
it
be
vndurstōdē
,
though
it
smyte
any
sinnis
of
ours
,
whether
it
be
not
vnderstonden
,
as
if
we
moune
vnderstond
better
,
either
commaunde
,
either
teache
better
.
By
the
yifte
of
dred
&
of
pitie
▪
me
comith
to
the
degre
of
●…uning
For
why
,
ech
fruc●…uo
use
man
of
holy
scripturis
,
exercisith
him selfe
in
this
thynge
,
and
to
fynd
none
other
thing
in
tho
:
than
forto
loue
God
for
God
himsilfe
,
&
forto
loue
his
neighbour
for
God
.
Than
thilke
drede
by
which
he
thinckith
on
goddis
dome
,
&
thilk
pitie
by
which
he
must
nedis
bileue
,
&
yeue
sted
to
autoritie
of
holi
bokis
:
compellith
hym
to
biweile
himselfe
,
for
whye
,
this
kunnynge
of
good
hope
makyth
a
man
not
to
auaunte
hymsylfe
,
but
byweyle
himsylfe
.
And
by
thys
affection
either
good
wyll
,
he
gettith
by
bysy
preyars
the
conforte
of
Godis
helpe
,
that
he
be
not
broken
by
dispeyre
.
He
bigynith
to
be
in
the
fourth
degree
of
gostely
strength
:
in
whych
he
hungrith
and
thyrstith
ryghtfulnes
.
Than
in
the.
v.
degre
,
that
is
in
the
councell
of
merci
:
he
purgith
the
soull
that
makith
noies
and
vnrestefulnes
of
couetise
&
earthly
thyngis
.
And
than
he
dyspysyth
fylthys
of
soule
,
and
louyth
God
and
neyghbours
,
yea
enimies
.
By
thys
he
styith
to
the.
vi
.
degree
:
where
he
purgyth
the
iygh
of
soule
:
by
whych
iygh
God
maye
be
seene
as
mych
as
he
maye
be
seen
,
of
hem
that
dyen
to
thys
worlde
,
as
mych
as
they
moune
.
For
in
so
mych
they
seene
God
in
here
soul
,
thorow
feyth
&
loue
:
howe
mych
they
dien
to
this
worlde
.
And
in
as
mich
as
thei
liuen
in
this
world
they
seene
not
God
.
And
in
thys
degre
wherin
a
man
dyeth
to
the
world
he
neyther
preferrith
nether
makyth
euen
hym selfe
neyther
hys
neiboure
wyth
the
truth
of
holy
write
.
Therfore
thys
holy
man
shal
be
so
simple
and
clenne
of
herte
:
that
neyther
for
plesaunce
of
men
he
be
drawen
awey
fro
truth
,
neither
bicause
to
eschew
any
harmes
to
hym selfe
,
that
been
contrari
to
this
life
.
Such
a
child
stieth
to
very
wysdome
,
whych
is
the
last
and
the
seuenth
:
whych
he
vsyth
in
peace
and
in
reste
.
Seint
Austen
seyth
al
this
:
in
the
bigining
of
the
second
boke
of
christen
teachynge
.
Heare
is
a
blyssed
entrynge
by
thes
seuen
vertues
to
the
cuninge
of
holy
scriptnr
in
this
lyfe
to
haue
here
rest
of
soule
,
and
afterwarde
ful
reste
of
body
and
soule
,
in
heauen
wythouten
ende
.
Alas
,
what
done
proude
and
coueitouse
wretchis
at
holy
scriptur
that
sekenne
the
worlde
and
f●…eshlye
●…ase
,
and
wolen
not
conuerte
hem
fro
these
curssidnesses
.
They
dysceyuen
heme
sylfe
and
the
Puple
that
gesse
hemme
wyse
menne
,
whanne
they
ben
open
foles
,
and
makenne
heme
felfe
deper
damnydde
,
and
othere
menne
also
that
suen
here
follye
,
and
Blasphemen
Godde
.
These
worldlye
folys
shoulen
wytte
:
that
holye
lyfe
is
a
lanterne
to
brynge
a
man
to
verye
kunnynge
as
Chrysostome
seith
.
And
the
dred
and
loue
of
Godde
,
is
the
begynynge
and
perfection
and
kunnyng
of
wysdome
.
And
whan
these
fylthye
Apys
and
worldly
molde
warpys
,
han
neyther
the
begynnyng
of
wysdome
neyther
desyren
it
:
what
done
they
at
holye
Scrypture
to
shenshyp
of
hem
selfe
and
of
other
men
?
As
longe
as
Pryde
and
Couetyse
of
worldli
goodis
and
honoure
is
rotyde
in
her
herte
:
theye
maken
homage
to
Satanas
,
and
offerne
to
hym
bothe
bodye
and
soule
and
al
her
wytte
and
fyndynge
Suche
folys
shoulenne
thynke
,
that
wysdome
shal
not
enter
into
an
iuill
wyllyd
soule
:
neyther
shall
dwell
in
a
bodye
soget
to
synnys
.
And
Iesu
Christe
seyth
that
the
Father
of
heauen
hydyth
the
priuities
of
holye
Scripture
from
wyse
menne
and
Prudent
to
the
worlde
,
and
in
her
owne
syght
,
and
she
wyth
tho
to
meke
men
.
Therfore
worldlye
foles
,
do
ye
fyrste
penaunce
for
your
synnis
,
and
forsake
Pryde
and
Couetyes
:
and
be
ye
meke
and
drede
ye
God
in
all
thyngs
,
and
loue
hym
ouer
al
othere
thingis
,
and
your
neiboure
as
your
sylfe
,
and
than
you
shoulen
profyte
in
studye
of
holy
wryte
.
But
alas
,
alas
,
alas
.
The
moste
abomination
that
euer
was
hearde
among
chrysten
clerkis
:
is
now
purposid
in
Englond
,
by
worldli
clerks
and
feynede
relygiouse
.
And
in
the
chife
vniuersitye
of
oure
rewme
(
as
mani
true
men
tellen
wyth
gret
weylyng
)
thys
horrible
and
deuilys
cursydnes
is
purposid
,
of
Christis
enymies
and
traytourys
of
all
chrysten
puple
:
that
no
man
shall
learne
diuinitie
neyther
holy
wryte
,
no
but
he
that
hath
done
hys
fourme
in
arte
,
that
is
,
that
hath
commencyd
in
arte
,
and
hath
be
regente
twoe
yere
after
.
This
woulde
be
.
ix
yere
or
.
x.
before
that
he
learne
holye
write
,
after
that
he
can
commenlye
well
hys
gramer
:
though
he
haue
a
good
wytte
and
traueile
ful
sore
and
haue
good
findyng
.
ix
vere
eyther
.
x.
after
hys
gram
mer.
Thys
semith
vtterli
the
Diuils
purpose
:
that
fewe
men
eyther
none
shulen
learne
and
kun
Goddis
law
.
But
God
seyth
by
Amos
on
three
greate
trespasses
of
Damaske
:
and
on
the
fourth
I
shal
not
conuert
him
.
Where
Ierom
seyth
,
the
fyrst
synne
is
to
thynke
euylis
,
the.
ii
.
synne
is
to
consent
to
wey
ward
thoughtis
,
the
thyrde
synne
is
to
fyll
in
werke
,
the
fourth
synne
is
to
do
not
penaunce
after
the
sinne
,
and
to
please
him
silfe
in
hys
sinne
.
But
Damaske
is
interpretyde
Drynkynge
either
byrlyng
bloude
.
Lorde
,
where
Oxenforde
drinkyth
bloude
and
byrlith
bloude
,
by
sleaynge
of
quicke
men
and
doynge
of
Sodomies
,
in
leasiug
a
parte
of
mans
blude
wherby
a
chyld
might
be
formid
:
deme
thei
that
knowen
.
And
where
Oxenford
drynk
bloud
of
synne
,
and
styrre
other
men
of
the
lond
to
do
syn
by
boldnes
of
clarkis
deme
they
iustly
that
seene
it
at
eigh
and
knowen
by
experience
.
Loke
nowe
,
where
Oxenford
,
is
in
thre
orryble
synnis
,
and
in
the
forth
,
on
whyche
God
restythe
not
tyll
he
punyshe
it
.
Somtyme
,
chyldren
and
younge
men
Artitars
werenne
deuoute
and
clene
as
Angeles
in
comparyson
of
other
:
nowe
men
seine
they
ben
full
of
pryde
and
lecherye
,
and
dyspytuouse
othys
nedelesse
and
false
,
and
dyspyseynge
of
Goddys
hestys
.
Somtyme
Ciuili●…ns
&
Canonistis
,
weren
deuoute
,
and
so
bysy
in
here
learnynge
,
that
they
token
full
lyttle
reste
on
bedde
:
nowe
men
seyne
,
that
they
bene
ful
of
pride
,
and
nice
araie
,
enuye
and
couetise
,
wyth
lecherye
,
glottonnye
and
Idelnes
.
Sometyme
Dyuynis
werenne
full
holye
and
deuoute
,
and
dyspisyden
vtterlye
the
worlde
and
lyuyden
as
angellis
,
in
mekenes
,
cleenesse
,
soueraynue
chastytye
,
and
charytye
,
and
taughten
truly
Godds
lawe
in
werk
and
word
:
now
men
seine
they
bene
as
delycate
of
her
mouth
&
wombe
and
as
couetyse
as
other
worlddlye
men
,
and
flatteren
&
maken
leasings
in
preachynge
,
to
eschewe
bodylye
persecution
,
and
to
gette
benefycys
.
The
fyrste
greate
synne
is
generalli
in
the
vniuersitie
(
as
men
dre
den
and
seene
at
eigh
)
the
second
orible
synne
is
sodomys
,
and
stronge
meyntenaunce
therof
,
as
it
is
knowen
to
many
persons
,
of
the
rewme
.
And
at
the
last
parliamente
,
alas
diuinis
,
that
shulden
passe
other
men
in
cleanes
&
holines
(
as
an
gellis
of
heauen
,
passen
frele
men
in
vertuis
)
bene
moste
slaundred
of
this
curssed
sinne
ayens
kynde
.
The
thryde
horible
synne
is
Simonie
and
for
sweryng
in
the
semble
house
,
that
shulde
be
an
house
of
rightfulnes
&
holynes
,
where
euillis
shullen
be
redressyd
.
This
Simonie
wyth
purtenauncis
therof
,
is
mych
worse
and
more
abominable
than
bodily
sodomies
.
Yet
on
these
three
abominations
God
wolde
graciousely
conuert
clerkis
:
if
they
wollen
do
very
penaunce
and
yeue
hem
wholy
to
vertuis
.
But
on
the
fourthe
abomination
,
purposid
no
we
to
letten
christen
men
,
yea
priestis
and
curats
,
to
learne
fre
ly
Gods
lawe
,
tyll
they
han
spendyd
ix
.
yere
or
.
x.
atarte
,
that
comprehendyth
many
strong
errouris
of
Heathen
men
ayens
christen
byleue
:
it
semyth
well
that
God
wole
not
cease
of
vengeaunce
,
til
it
and
other
ben
punishid
sore
.
For
it
semith
that
worldly
clerkis
and
feynid
religiouse
done
thys
:
that
simple
men
of
wytte
and
fyndyng
knowe
not
Godis
lawe
,
to
preache
it
generally
ayens
synnis
in
the
rewme
.
But
witte
ye
worldly
clerkis
and
feinid
relygiouse
:
that
God
both
can
and
maye
(
if
it
lykyth
hym
)
spede
simple
men
oute
of
the
Uniuersitie
,
as
mych
to
kunne
holye
wrytte
:
as
maisters
in
the
Uniuersitie
.
And
therfore
no
greate
charge
thoughe
neuer
man
of
good
wyll
,
be
poysonyde
wyth
Heathen
mens
errouys
nyne
yere
eyther
tenne
,
but
euer
lyue
well
and
studye
holy
wryte
by
elde
Doctouris
and
Newe
:
and
preach
truely
and
freely
ayens
open
synnys
to
hys
death
.
See
therfore
what
Ierome
seyth
on
Amos.
God
byfore
seeth
Euilys
to
commynge
:
that
men
heare
and
amende
hemsilf
,
and
be
delyueryd
fro
peryle
nyghynge
.
Eyther
if
that
they
dyspisen
:
they
ben
punished
iustlyer
.
And
God
that
before
seeth
peynes
:
wole
not
punish
men
that
synnen
,
but
that
they
be
amendid
.
Ierome
seyth
this
in
the
ende
of
the
fyrste
boke
of
Amos.
God
for
his
greate
mercie
graunt
that
clerkis
heare
the
greate
vengeaunce
manassyd
of
God
,
and
amende
hemsylfe
truely
,
that
God
punishe
not
hem
.
For
if
they
amende
not
hemsilfe
,
they
ben
Heritykis
,
made
harde
in
here
synnis
.
But
se
what
Ierome
seyth
ayens
Heretikis
:
and
in
commending
of
holy
scripture
.
He
seythe
thus
on
Amos.
Heretikis
that
seruen
the
wombe
and
Glotonie
,
bene
clepid
righfully
fattest
kyne
,
or
kyne
ful
of
shenshipe
.
We
owen
to
take
holy
scripture
on
three
maners
.
Fyrste
we
owen
vndurstonde
it
by
the
letter
:
and
to
all
thyngis
that
ben
commaunded
to
vs
therin
.
The.
ii
.
tyme
by
Allegorye
,
that
is
gostlye
vnderstonding
.
And
in
the
thryde
tyme
,
by
blysse
of
thyngis
to
comynge
.
Ierome
seyth
thus
in
the
seconde
boke
on
Amos
,
&
in
the.
iiii
.
Chapter
of
Amos.
Nethelesse
for
Lire
came
late
to
me
:
se
what
he
seyth
on
the
vndurstonding
of
holy
scripture
.
He
●…oriteth
thus
in
the.
ii
.
prolog
on
the
Byble
.
Iohn
seyth
in
the
fyfth
Chapter
of
Apocalips
.
I
sygh
a
boke
written
wythin
and
wythout
forth
,
in
the
honde
of
the
sytter
on
the
trone
.
This
boke
is
holy
Scripture
which
is
seyde
written
wythout
forth
,
as
to
the
literall
vnderstondynge
,
and
within
,
as
to
the
priuie
and
gostly
vnderstondynge
.
And
in
the
fyrste
prologe
,
he
declaryth
foure
vnderstondyngis
of
holy
write
in
this
manner
.
Holye
wryte
,
hathe
this
specyaltye
that
vnder
oo
letter
,
it
conteyneth
manye
vnderstandyngis
.
For
the
principall
autour
of
holy
write
,
is
God
him selfe
.
In
whose
powre
it
is
not
only
to
vse
wordes
to
signifie
a
thynge
as
men
done
:
but
also
he
vsith
thyngis
signified
by
wordis
to
signifie
other
thyngis
.
Therfore
by
the
signifiyng
by
wordis
,
is
taken
the
litterall
vnderstondynge
either
historiall
of
holy
scripture
:
and
by
the
signifiynge
which
is
made
by
thyngis
,
is
taken
the
priuie
either
goftly
vndurstondyng
which
is
.
iii.
maneris
.
Allegorike
,
morall
either
Tropologike
,
and
Anogogike
.
If
thyngis
signified
by
wordis
ben
referrid
to
signifie
tho
thyngis
that
owen
to
be
bileuid
in
the
newe
testamente
:
so
it
is
taken
the
sense
of
Alegorike
.
If
thyngis
ben
referrid
to
signifie
tho
thyngis
which
we
owen
to
do
:
so
it
is
moral
sense
either
Tropologike
.
If
thyngis
ben
referred
to
signifie
tho
thingis
that
shulen
be
hopid
in
blisse
to
comynge
:
so
it
is
Anagogike
sense
.
The
letter
teachith
what
is
done
,
Allegorye
teachith
what
thou
owiste
to
bileue
,
Morall
teachith
what
thou
oweste
to
do
.
Anagogie
teachithe
whyther
thou
owist
to
go
.
And
of
these
.
iiii
.
sensis
either
vndurstondingis
:
maye
be
set
ensample
in
this
worde
Ierusalem
.
For
by
the
litterall
vnderstondynge
,
Ierusalem
signifieth
a
Citie
,
that
was
sometyme
the
chiefe
Citie
of
the
rewme
of
Iude.
And
Ierusalem
was
foundid
fyrste
of
Melchisedech
,
and
aftirward
it
was
alargid
&
made
strong
by
Solomon
.
By
morall
sence
,
it
sig
nifieth
a
faithfull
soule
.
By
whiche
sense
it
is
seyd
in
the.
lii
.
Chapter
of
Esaie
.
Rise
thou
,
rise
thou
,
sitte
thou
Ierusalem
.
By
sense
Allegorike
,
it
signifiethe
the
chirche
fyghtynge
ayens
synnis
and
fendis
,
by
whiche
sense
it
is
seyde
in
the
▪
one
&
twentye
of
the
Apocalips
.
I.
sygh
the
holy
Citie
newe
Ierusalem
comynge
downe
from
heauen
,
as
a
spouse
ourned
to
hir
housbonde
.
By
sense
Anagogik
it
signifieth
the
chirch
reignynge
in
blysse
.
By
this
sense
it
is
seyde
in
the.
iiii
.
Chapter
to
Galathies
.
Thilke
Ierusalem
whiche
is
aboue
,
which
is
oure
mother
:
is
fre
.
And
as
ensample
is
set
in
oo
worde
,
so
it
myght
be
set
in
oo
reasone
.
And
as
in
one
,
so
and
in
other
.
Lire
seyth
al
this
in
the
fyrst
prologe
on
the
bible
.
(
:
)
The.
xiiii
.
Chapter
.
NEtheles
,
al
gostly
vnderston
dings
setten
bifore
either
requirē
,
the
litteral
vnderstonding
,
as
the
foundement
.
For
why
,
as
a
bilding
bowing
awaie
fro
the
foundement
,
is
desposid
to
fallynge
:
●…o
a
gostly
exposition
that
discordith
fro
the
litteral
sense
,
owith
to
be
erectid
vnsēli
&
vncouenable
,
ether
les
semely
&
lesse
couenable
.
And
therfore
it
is
nedeful
for
hem
that
wolen
profite
in
the
studye
of
holy
scriptur
,
to
bigyne
at
the
vndurstondynge
of
litteral
sence
.
Most
sithen
by
the
litteral
sense
alone
,
(
&
not
by
gostly
sense
)
maye
be
made
an
argument
,
either
priefe
,
to
priuyng
either
declaring
of
a
doubt
,
as
Austen
seith
in
his
Epistle
to
Uincent
Donatiste
.
S.
Isidre
in
the
first
boke
of
So
ueraine
good
.
xx
.
Chap.
settith
.
vii
.
rulis
to
expound
holy
scripture
.
And
some
clepen
these
rulis
,
the
keis
of
scrip
tur
,
for
by
these
rulis
the
vnderstonding
of
scriptur
is
opened
in
many
thingis
.
The
fyrst
rule
is
of
our
Lorde
Iesu
Chryste
,
and
of
his
gostly
bodye
,
whiche
is
holy
chirche
.
For
why
,
for
knyttynge
togidir
of
the
heade
to
the
bodie
:
holy
scripture
speakith
sometyme
of
euereither
vnder
oo
reasone
,
as
vnder
oo
persone
,
and
passith
fro
one
to
an
other
.
In
ensample
,
in
.
lxi
.
Chapter
of
Esaie
it
is
seyde
.
He
clothide
me
wyth
clothis
of
health
,
and
he
cumpassid
me
wyth
clothingis
of
ryghtfulnes
,
as
a
spoule
made
fayre
wyth
a
corowne
,
as
a
spousesse
ourned
with
hir
brochis
.
For
why
,
this
that
is
seyde
as
of
spouse
,
is
vnderstonden
of
Christe
.
And
this
that
suith
,
as
spousesse
:
is
vnderstonden
of
holy
chirche
.
Also
in
the
fyrst
Chapter
of
Songis
,
it
is
seyde
.
Kysse
he
me
with
the
coss●…
of
his
mouthe
:
for
thy
tetis
ben
better
than
wyne
.
For
when
it
is
seyde
,
Kysse
heme
.
&c.
It
is
the
worde
of
the
spousesse
desyringe
to
haue
the
spouse
.
And
this
that
suith
,
for
thy
tetis
.
&c.
is
the
word
of
the
spouse
preysyng
the
spouses
.
Wherfore
in
such
things
knite
so
togidir
bi
resone
byfore
seyde
:
a
prudente
readar
oweth
to
perceyue
,
what
accordith
to
the
heade
,
&
what
to
the
dodye
.
The
▪
ii
rule
is
of
the
verie
body
&
of
the
feynid
body
of
oure
Lorde
Iesu
Christ
.
For
why
holy
chirch
which
is
the
gostly
body
of
Christ
,
is
a
net
which
is
not
yet
drawen
to
the
brynk
.
Therfore
it
hath
euel
men
medlyd
with
good
men
tyll
to
the
dome
,
in
which
these
shulen
be
departed
fro
hem
.
And
therfore
in
holy
scripture
:
euill
men
ben
preised
some
tyme
wyth
good
men
,
wyth
the
which
they
ben
medeled
.
As
in
the.
xi
.
Chapter
of
Osee
,
God
seyth
thus
.
Israell
is
a
chylde
,
and
I
loued
hym
.
And
ayene
warde
sometyme
good
men
ben
blamed
with
euell
men
,
as
in
the
fyrst
Chapter
of
Esay
.
An
Oxe
knewe
his
Lorde
,
and
an
Asse
knew
the
cratch
of
his
Lord
but
Israel
knew
not
me
&
my
puple
vnderstode
not
.
And
sometime
in
the
same
reson
it
is
expressyd
,
what
pertaineth
to
good
men
:
&
what
to
euil
men
.
As
in
the
.i.
chap.
of
songs
it
is
seid
I
am
blak
but
fair
,
ye
doughters
of
Ierusalem
as
the
tabernacles
of
Cedar
as
the
skins
of
Solomon
.
Thes
ben
the
words
of
the
spouses
which
for
reson
of
euil
men
conteinid
in
the
chirch
seith
,
I
am
blak
,
but
for
reson
of
good
men
:
it
addith
,
But
fair
.
And
this
that
suith
as
for
ensample
.
As
the
tabernacles
of
Ce
dar
:
is
referryd
to
euil
men
.
For
why
Cedar
was
the
sonne
of
Ismael
as
it
is
seid
in
the
.xxv.
of
Genesis
:
of
whome
Saracens
camen
forth
.
And
this
that
is
addid
,
as
the
skyns
of
Solomon
,
is
referrid
to
good
men
.
Therfore
bi
Solomon
,
here
is
vnderstonden
God
him
silfe
:
bi
christen
expositours
&
Hebrus
And
therfore
the
skins
of
Solomon
ben
seyde
tho
with
whych
the
tabernacle
was
hylyd
.
in
whych
tabernacle
good
men
worshypen
God
.
The.
iii.
rule
is
of
the
spryte
and
of
the
Letter
.
Thys
rule
is
expounyd
thus
cominlye
:
that
the
hystorial
either
Lytterall
sense
and
the
mystike
eyther
gostlye
sence
,
is
taken
vnder
the
same
letter
.
For
whie
the
trueth
of
the
storie
shal
be
holden
:
and
nethelesse
it
shal
be
referryd
to
the
gostlye
vnderstondyng
.
Thys
rule
maye
be
expounyde
also
in
an
other
manner
that
it
be
referryd
also
to
the
lytteral
sense
,
as
other
rulys
benne
.
Aboute
whych
thynge
it
is
to
se
that
the
same
letter
hath
some
tyme
double
litterall
sense
,
in
ensample
in
the
first
boke
of
paralipomenon
the.
xvii
.
chapiter
God
seyth
to
Solomon
.
Ishal
be
to
hym
into
a
father
,
and
he
shal
be
to
me
into
a
sonne
.
And
thys
to
the
letter
is
vnderstonden
of
Solomon
:
in
as
mich
as
he
was
the
sonne
of
God
bi
grace
in
youth
.
Therfor
N●…
than
the
prophet
clepid
him
amiable
to
the
lorde
in
the.
ii
.
boke
of
Kyngis
xii
.
chapiter
.
Also
the
forsayde
auto●…ytie
.
I
shal
be
to
hym
into
a
father
&c.
is
brought
in
of
Paule
,
in
the
firste
chapiter
to
Ebrus
,
as
seyd
to
the
letter
of
Christe
hym
syl●…e
.
And
this
is
open
by
thys
that
Paule
bryngyth
in
to
priue
:
that
Chryste
is
more
than
Angellis
.
But
suche
pryu●…nge
may
not
be
made
by
gostli
sense
:
as
Austyne
seyth
ayens
Uyncent
Donatiste
Forsoth
the
forsayde
autorltie
was
fyllyd
to
the
letter
in
Solomon
.
Netheles
perfectly
:
for
he
was
the
sonne
of
God
only
bi
grace
.
But
it
was
fyllyde
perfectlyer
in
Chryst
that
was
the
sonne
of
God
bi
kynd
.
But
nethelesse
euereyther
exposition
is
lytterall
vtterlye
.
Nethelesse
the
seconde
exposition
,
whych
is
of
Chryst
:
is
gostly
and
pryuie
in
some
manuer
,
in
as
mych
as
Solomon
was
the
fygure
of
Chryste
.
The.
iiii
.
rule
is
of
all
and
of
parte
.
For
why
:
scrypcure
passyth
fro
one
to
an
other
:
and
ay●…newarde
.
As
in
the.
xiii
.
chapiter
of
Esaie
:
the
scripture
spekyth
fyrste
ayens
Babylon
specially
,
whan
it
is
seyde
.
The
byrt●…im
of
Babilon
.
And
than
the
scripture
passyth
to
vnderstond
the
worde
generallye
of
al
the
worlde
:
by
thys
that
suyth
.
The
lord
comyth
fro
the
hyghnes
of
heauen
:
and
the
vessellis
of
his
strong
vengeaunce
camen
,
that
he
distrye
all
earth
.
Afterwarde
the
scryptur
turnyth
ayene
to
speake
ayens
Babylon
speciallye
:
whan
it
is
seyde
.
Lo
,
I
shall
reise
on
you
Medeis
:
that
shulen
not
seke
syluer
.
For
why
Darius
Medes
,
wyth
Cirus
hys
cosenne
,
toke
Babilon
and
kyllede
Baltasar
,
the
Kynge
of
Babylon
,
as
it
is
seyde
in
the
fyfte
chapyter
of
Danyel
.
The.
v.
rule
is
of
tymes
:
whych
rule
byfallyth
in
.
iiii
.
maners-In
oo
maner
,
by
a
fygure
clepid
Sinodoches
:
whan
a
parte
of
tyme
is
set
for
all
the
tyme
.
As
it
is
seyde
in
the
gospel
,
that
Chryst
laye
.
iii
dayes
in
the
Sepulchre
,
and
nethelesse
,
the
fyrste
day
and
the
thyrd
weren
not
whole
dayes
.
In
an
other
maner
thys
rule
byfallyth
for
smalle
partis
of
tyme
that
bene
noumbrede
sometyme
inscripture
:
and
somtyme
ben
left
out
.
And
by
thys
the
scrypture
that
spea
kyth
of
some
noumbre
of
yeres
in
many
placys
:
settyth
somtime
moe
yers
recknyng
the
forseyde
smale
partis
.
In
an
other
place
,
it
settyth
fewe●…e
yeres
:
in
leauing
out
the
smale
parts
.
In
the
thyrde
manner
thys
rule
byfalleth
,
for
that
the
recknyng
of
yeris
begynnith
in
oon
place
at
the
former
terme
,
and
in
an
other
place
at
the
latter
terme
.
As
in
the
xv
.
chapyter
of
Genises
,
it
was
seyd
to
Abraham
.
That
his
seed
shall
be
a
pylgrime
by
.
iiii
.
hundrid
yere
.
And
in
the.
xii
.
Chap.
of
Exodi
,
it
is
seyd
of
this
pilgrimag
that
the
dwellinge
of
the
sonnis
of
Israell
in
the
londe
of
Egipt
was
of
.
iiii
.
hundred
yere
and.
xxx
.
For
the
rikenyng
of
this
more
noumbre
,
biginyth
at
the
tyme
,
in
whiche
it
was
seyde
to
Abraham
in
thee
.
xii
.
of
Genesis
.
Go
out
of
the
londe
.
&c.
And
the
rikening
of
the
lesse
numbre
,
biginith
at
the
natiuitie
of
Isaac
that
was
xxx
.
yere
aftir
the
goyng
out
of
Abraham
fro
Aran.
The
fourth
time
,
this
rule
falith
,
for
that
holy
scripture
speakith
of
thyng
to
coming
,
by
the
maner
of
thing
passid
.
As
in
the.
ix
.
Chap.
of
Esaie
.
A
lyttle
childe
was
borne
to
vs
&c.
And
this
is
to
signifie
the
certentie
of
prophecie
whose
bifalling
of
time
coming
is
so
certeine
,
as
if
it
were
passid
now
.
And
this
is
for
certenti
of
godis
bifore
knowing
,
by
whych
the
reuelacion
is
made
to
the
prophet
.
Nethlesse
,
such
maner
of
spech
hath
no
place
n●…
but
in
prop
hecie
of
predestinacion
eythere
full
determinynge
of
God
whiche
Prophecie
is
whan
a
thinge
to
coming
in
none
certeine
to
manis
knowinge
is
shewid
to
the
Prophete
in
that
maner
,
by
which
it
is
in
y●
byfore
knowynge
of
God
,
whiche
byfore
knowynge
as
God
biholdith
,
so
wythouten
feailynge
thyngis
to
comynge
,
as
thyng
is
presente
&
passid
.
But
in
Prophecie
of
manassynge
,
suche
maner
of
speach
hath
no
place
,
whiche
prophecie
of
manas
is
,
whan
any
peyue
worthy
to
be
brought
in
on
any
puple
or
on
a
persone
,
is
shewid
to
the
prophete
.
Not
by
that
that
it
is
in
the
byfore
knowinge
of
God
,
but
by
the
order
of
second
causis
,
as
by
the
euyll
deserueyngis
of
men
.
As
is
that
Prophecie
of
Ionas
.
iii.
chapter
.
Yet
fourtye
dayes
,
and
Niniuie
shall
be
distried
.
For
why
,
the
sinnis
of
that
citie
hadden
deseruid
this
distriynge
.
Netherlesse
,
for
such
a
cause
is
chaungable
,
therfore
sometyme
the
effecte
(
that
is
peyne
manassid
)
sueth
not
,
as
here
,
for
Niniuitis
didden
penaunce
and
so
the
Lorde
brought
not
in
the
peyne
manassyd
.
The.
vi
.
rule
is
of
recapitulation
.
That
is
of
rehersing
of
thyngis
done
byfore
.
And
of
Anticipation
either
byfore
takynge
,
that
is
settynge
in
of
thyng
byfore
it
is
done
.
For
in
holye
scrypture
,
not
euerye
storye
and
dedis
ben
wrytten
in
the
same
order
in
whiche
tho
bene
done
.
And
therefore
whan
latter
thyngis
bene
set
byfore
,
it
is
seyde
Anticipacion
either
bifore
takyng
.
Whan
the
foremer
thingis
bene
set
byhinde
,
it
is
seyde
recapitulacion
,
either
rehersyng
of
thing
done
bifore
.
As
in
the
tenth
Chapter
of
Genisis
it
is
seyde
of
the
Sonnis
of
Noe.
The
Ilis
of
the
heathen
folke
in
here
contreys
,
weren
departid
of
the
sonnes
of
Noe
:
eche
man
by
his
langage
.
And
within
the
same
.
x
Chapter
it
is
seyde
.
These
●…en
the
sonnis
,
of
Cham
,
in
kynreddes
and
langagis
.
And
afterwarde
it
is
seyd
in
the
xi
.
Chapter
.
The
londe
was
of
oon
langage
,
and
of
the
same
wordis
.
Wherof
it
is
open
that
this
that
is
byfore
seyde
of
the
departyng
of
langagis
,
is
seyde
by
Anticipacion
.
In
like
maner
in
.
ii
.
Chapter
of
Genesis
After
that
Moses
in
.
i.
Chapter
had
discreuid
the
creation
either
making
of
nought
of
heauen
and
of
earth
,
&
the
departing
&
ourning
of
the
world
,
he
sayde
,
these
benethe
generations
of
heauen
and
of
earthe
,
in
the
daie
in
whiche
tho
weren
made
.
Wherof
it
is
open
,
that
this
is
seyde
:
by
recapitulacion
,
either
rehersyng
of
thing
done
bifore
.
The.
vii
.
rule
is
of
the
deuell
&
of
his
body
.
For
as
Gregorye
seyth
in
the
tenth
.
Homelie
.
Certis
the
deuill
is
heade
of
al
wicked
men
.
And
all
wycked
men
be
membres
of
thys
heade
.
And
therfore
the
knettynge
togither
of
the
hede
to
the
membres
,
the
scripture
that
speakith
of
one
:
passith
in
the
same
knittinge
togither
of
reason
,
to
speake
of
the
tother
.
As
in
the.
xiiii
.
Chapter
of
Esaie
.
Wher
the
scripture
weake●…h
of
the
king
of
Babilon
,
that
was
a
membre
of
the
deuil
:
it
passith
to
speake
of
prince
of
fendis
,
whan
〈◊〉
is
seyd
there
.
Lucifer
that
risidiste
●…ly
,
howe
feldist
thou
downe
fro
heauen
.
And
in
the.
xxviii
.
chapter
of
Ezechiel
,
wher
the
scriptur
speaketh
of
the
prince
of
Tire
it
passith
to
speak
of
the
deuil
,
when
it
is
addid
.
Thou
a
signet
eyther
a
printe
of
the
lykenes
of
God
,
were
full
of
wysedome
and
perfecte
in
fayrnes
,
in
the
delicite
of
Paradise
of
God
.
Lire
seyth
al
this
in
the
seconde
prologe
of
Genesis
.
Here
Lire
rehersyth
the
sentence
of
S.
Austin
&
of
Isidre
in
these
rulis
:
and
declarith
hem
openly
by
holye
Scripture
and
reasone
,
and
countrith
not
Austin
,
but
declarith
hym
full
myche
to
simple
mens
wyt
,
and
addith
more
by
Scripture
and
reasone
,
that
Austine
touchith
not
.
Though
these
rulis
and
keyes
of
Scripture
bryngin
men
to
greate
understanding
therof
:
yet
men
moten
take
hede
what
is
seyde
of
Chryste
of
his
godheade
,
and
what
by
hys
manheade
.
For
Chryst
by
his
manheade
,
is
seyd
lesse
than
the
father
,
and
by
the
godhead
he
is
seyde
euen
wyth
the
father
.
And
for
asmuch
as
Chryst
is
boeth
God
and
man
,
we
graunten
that
God
was
deadly
and
dyed
on
the
Crosse
.
Not
by
his
godheade
,
but
by
the
manhead
of
Chryste
,
that
was
ioyned
in
oneheade
of
persone
wyth
the
godhead
.
And
we
graunt
,
as
the
Gospel
doth
that
man
whyle
he
was
deadly
vpon
earth
:
was
in
heauen
,
for
his
godheade
was
ther
,
&
he
also
by
reasone
therof
.
Also
we
moun
graunte
well
that
a
man
made
both
heauen
and
earth
.
For
Christe
by
his
godheade
,
(
which
Christe
is
and
was
man
)
dyd
thus
.
Also
holy
Scriptur
tellith
oft
the
thoughtis
of
men
and
of
the
wordis
&
dedis
.
And
whan
the
thoughtis
&
wordis
and
dedis
of
men
ben
contrari
,
oo
Gospellar
tellith
the
thoughtis
,
a nother
tellith
the
wordis
,
and
by
this
equiuocation
either
diuers
speakinge
,
they
bene
accordid
.
Yea
whan
they
semen
contrarie
in
wordis
.
Also
ofte
in
storiall
mattir
,
scripture
rehersyth
the
commone
opinion
of
men
,
and
affirmeth
not
that
it
was
so
in
dede
.
In
this
maner
the
Gospel
seith
that
Ioseph
was
the
father
of
Chryste
:
though
he
neuer
gendrid
Christ
.
For
Mary
Christis
mother
was
euer
clene
virgine
.
Thus
the
Gospell
seyth
,
that
at
the
beheadyng
of
Iohn
Baptiste
,
Herod
was
sorie
,
&
yet
as
doctours
seyne
,
he
was
full
glad
therof
.
But
he
feined
him
sory
▪
for
the
puple
,
&
the
puple
gessid
hym
sory
.
Also
though
scriptur
do
reherse
how
holimen
liuiden
&
,
doth
commend
hem
grea●…li
:
it
appreuith
not
all
here
dedis
.
For
many
great
sanctis
erridē
foule
in
many
points
.
And
thoughe
scripture
do
tel
the
stories
of
euil
men
and
dampnid
,
it
repreueth
not
herefore
all
thyngis
which
thei
diden
.
For
though
thei
weren
hemsilfe
ful
cursid
:
thei
diden
many
good
dedis
of
kynd
,
&
sometime
peraduenture
many
good
dedis
of
vertue
,
if
they
weren
in
grace
for
a
tyme
.
At
the
laste
,
take
ye
good
hede
whan
the
scripture
speakith
by
commaundement
to
all
men
,
&
whan
it
geueth
commaundement
to
certen
personnes
of
dyuers
statis
.
In
the
fyrste
poynte
all
men
moten
do
as
it
seith
.
In
the
seconde
tyme
,
the
personis
of
statis
spicified
,
moten
nedis
obeye
.
Whan
scripture
speakith
only
by
counsell
,
men
mouue
be
saued
though
they
do
not
the
counsell
:
As
full
many
men
and
women
moune
be
saued
,
though
they
take
not
virginitie
neither
continence
,
neither
yeue
all
here
goodis
to
poore
men
.
And
yet
these
bene
here
counsellis
of
Iesu
Christ
in
the
Gospell
.
The.
xv
Chapter
.
EOr
as
mych
as
Christ
seith
that
the
gospel
shal
be
prea
chid
in
all
the
worlde
,
and
Dauid
seyth
of
the
Apostlis
and
here
preachyng
,
the
sowne
of
hem
yede
out
into
eche
londe
,
&
the
wordis
of
hem
yeden
oute
into
the
endes
of
the
worlde
:
&
efte
Dauid
seith
,
the
Lorde
shall
tell
in
the
scriptures
of
puples
,
and
of
these
pryncis
that
weren
in
it
,
that
is
in
holye
chirche
:
as
Ie●…ome
seyth
on
that
verse
,
holy
wryte
is
the
scripture
of
puples
,
for
it
is
made
that
al
puples
shulden
know
it
,
and
the
princis
of
the
chirch
that
weren
therin
,
benthe
Apostlis
that
hadden
autoritie
to
writen
holye
wryte
(
for
by
that
same
that
the
Apostlys
wryttyden
here
scripturis
by
autoryti
and
confyrmynge
of
the
holy
goste
,
it
is
holy
scripture
and
feyth
of
chrysten
men
)
And
thys
dygnitie
hath
no
man
aftir
hem
,
be
he
neuer
so
holy
,
neuer
so
kunnynge
(
as
Ierome
wytnessyth
on
that
verse
)
also
Chryste
seyth
of
the
Iewis
that
criden
Osanna
,
to
him
in
the
temple
,
that
though
they
weren
styll
,
stonis
shoulden
crye
:
and
by
stonis
he
vnderstondith
heathen
men
,
that
worshipen
stonis
for
here
Goddis
:
and
we
English
men
ben
commen
of
heathen
men
,
therfore
we
ben
vnderstonden
bithese
stones
that
shulen
crye
holy
write
,
and
(
as
Iewes
inter
pretyd
knoleching
)
singnifien
clerks
,
that
shulden
knowlech
to
Godde
by
repentaunce
of
synnis
,
and
bi
voice
of
Gods
heriynge
:
so
oure
lewide
men
suing
the
corner
stone
Christ
,
moun
be
syngnyfyede
by
stonys
that
bene
harde
and
abydinge
in
the
foundement
for
though
couetouse
clarkys
bene
wode
bi
simoni
heresie
,
&
mani
other
sinnis
,
and
dispisen
and
stoppen
holy
write
as
mych
as
they
moune
,
yet
the
lewde
puple
cryethe
after
holye
wryt
to
kun
it
and
kepe
it
with
grete
cost
and
perile
of
here
lyfe
.
For
these
reasones
and
other
,
wyth
commune
charitye
to
saue
al
men
in
our
rewme
which
God
wol
haue
sauide
:
a
symple
creature
hath
translatyde
the
Bible
oute
of
latyne
into
Englishe
.
Fyrste
thys
symple
creature
,
had
mych
trauaile
wyth
diuers
felowis
&
helpars
to
gather
mani
eld
Bibles
and
other
doctouris
&
comune
glo●…is
,
&
to
make
oo
latine
Bible
somedell
trwe
,
and
than
to
studie
it
of
the
newe
,
the
text
with
the
glose
,
&
other
doctours
as
he
might
get
:
and
specially
Lire
on
the
elde
testamente
,
that
helpyd
full
miche
in
hys
werke
The
thyrde
tyme
to
Counsell
wyth
elde
elde
gramariens
and
elde
diuinis
,
of
harde
wordis
and
harde
sentensis
,
how
thy
myght
best
be
vnderstanden
&
translated
.
The
fourth
tyme
,
to
translate
as
cle●…rly
as
he
could
to
the
sentence
,
and
to
haue
many
good
felowis
and
kunnyng
,
at
the
correctinge
of
the
translation
.
First
it
is
to
know
that
the
beste
transsatyng
out
of
Latyne
into
Englysh
is
,
to
translate
after●…he
sentence
,
and
not
onely
after
the
wordis
.
So
that
the
sentence
be
as
opyn
(
either
opener
)
in
Englyshe
as
in
latyne
,
and
go
not
farre
fro
the
letter
.
And
if
the
letter
may
not
be
suid
in
the
translatynge
,
let
the
sentence
euer
be
whole
and
open
.
For
the
wordis
owen
to
serue
to
the
entente
and
sentence
:
and
ellis
the
wordis
bene
superfluouse
either
false
.
In
translatyng
into
English
,
many
resolusiōs
moune
make
the
sentence
open
,
as
an
ablatyfe
case
absolute
maye
he
resolued
into
these
thre
words
with
couenable
verb
the
while
,
for
,
if
,
as
gramariens
seine
.
As
thus
.
The
master
reding
,
Istōd
maye
be
resolued
thus
,
while
the
master
readith
,
I
stonde
.
Either
if
the
master
read
,
ether
for
the
master
.
&c.
And
somtime
it
wold
accord
well
with
the
sentence
to
be
resoluid
into
whan
,
ether
into
aftirward
,
thus
,
whan
the
master
red
,
Istode
.
Either
,
after
the
master
read
I
stode
.
And
sometime
it
may
well
be
resolued
into
a
verbe
of
the
same
tyme
,
as
other
ben
in
the
same
reason
,
and
into
this
worde
et
,
that
is
,
and
,
in
English
,
as
thus
.
Aresentibus
hominibus
pre
timore
.
That
is
And
men
shulen
wexe
drie
for
dread
.
Also
a
participle
of
a
presente
tens
,
either
pretertens
of
actyfe
voicis
,
either
passife
:
may
be
resolued
into
a
verbe
of
the
same
tens
,
and
a
coniūetion
copulatyfe
,
as
thus
.
Dicens
.
that
is
seynge
maye
be
resolued
thus
,
and
seythe
,
eyther
that
seythe
.
And
thys
wole
in
many
placis
make
the
sentence
open
:
where
to
englyshe
it
after
the
word
,
wold
be
derke
and
doubtfull
.
Also
a
relatyfe
whyche
maye
be
resoluyd
into
hys
anticedent
wyth
a
coniuncion
copulatife
:
as
thus
,
which
ren●…ith
.
And
he
renneth
.
Also
whan
oon
worde
is
once
sette
in
a
reasone
it
maye
be
set
forth
as
ofte
as
it
is
vnderstonden
,
either
as
ofte
as
rea
,
sone
and
●…e
axen
.
And
this
worde
autem
either
,
vero
maye
stonde
for
forsoth
,
eyther
for
but.
And
thus
I
vse
communlye
.
And
sometime
it
may
sto●…de
for
and
,
as
elde
gramariens
seyne
.
Also
whan
ryghtful
construction
is
lettyd
by
relation
,
I
resolue
openly
thus
.
Where
thys
reason
Dum
formidabunt
aduersarii
,
eius
shuld
be
englyshid
thus
bi
the
letter
.
The
lorde
hys
aduersaries
sholden
dred
:
I
english
it
thus
by
resolucyon
The
aduersaries
of
the
lorde
shulen
dread
hym
.
And
so
of
other
reasons
that
bene
like
.
At
the
byginynge
I
purposyde
wyth
Goddys
helpe
:
to
make
the
sentence
as
true
&
open
in
englyshe
as
it
is
in
latine
,
either
more
trwe
and
moore
open
than
it
is
in
latyne
.
And
I
praye
for
charitie
and
commune
profyte
of
chrysten
soulys
,
that
if
any
wyseman
fynd
any
defaut
of
the
trueth
of
translation
:
let
hym
set
in
the
true
sentence
and
open
the
holy
wryte
.
But
loke
that
he
examyne
trulye
hys
latyn
byble
:
for
no
doubt
he
shall
fynde
many
byblis
in
latyne
ful
false
,
if
he
loke
mani
.
And
namely
newe
,
and
the
commune
latyne
bybles
han
more
nede
to
be
correctyd
(
as
many
as
I
haue
sene
in
my
life
)
than
hath
the
english
bible
late
transsated
.
And
where
the
Hebru
,
by
witnes
of
Ierom
of
Lire
&
other
expositours
dyscordith
fro
our
Latyne
biblis
:
I
haue
set
in
the
margent
bi
manner
of
a
glose
what
the
Hebreu
hath
&
howe
it
is
vnderstouden
in
some
place
.
And
I
did
this
most
in
the
psalter
,
that
of
al
our
bokis
discordith
most
fro
Hebru
For
the
chirch
readith
not
the
psalter
by
the
laste
translātion
out
of
Hebru
into
Latine
:
but
an
other
translacion
of
other
men
that
hadden
mich
lasse
kunninge
,
and
holinesse
than
Ierome
had
.
And
in
fulfewe
bokis
the
chirch
readith
the
translacion
of
Ierome
,
as
it
maye
be
preued
by
the
propre
originallis
of
Ierome
whiche
he
gloside
.
And
wher
I
haue
translatid
as
openly
or
openlier
in
English
as
in
latin●…
,
lete
wyse
men
deme
that
knowne
wel
boeth
langagis
,
and
knowen
well
the
sentence
of
holy
scripture
.
And
wher
I
haue
do
thus
or
naye
,
ne
doubt
,
they
that
kunne
well
the
sentence
of
holy
wryte
and
Englishe
togider
,
&
wolen
trauayle
with
goddis
grace
there
aboute
:
moune
make
the
bible
as
true
&
as
opine
,
yea
&
opinliar
in
Englysh
than
it
is
in
Latyne
.
And
no
doubte
to
a
simple
man
,
with
goddis
grace
&
great
trauayle
men
mighten
expoune
mich
opēlier
&
shortlier
the
Bible
in
englysh
:
than
the
elde
great
doctours
han
expoūid
it
in
latine
&
mich
sharp
lier
&
groūdlier
than
mani
late
Postil
latours
either
expositours
han
don
.
But
God
of
his
great
merci
yeue
to
vs
grace
to
liue
wel
,
&
to
seie
the
truth
in
couenable
maner
,
&
acceptable
to
God
&
his
puple
,
&
spil
not
our
time
,
be
it
shorte
be
it
long
at
Gods
ordynaunce
.
But
some
that
semen
wise
&
holy
:
seine
thus
.
If
men
now
weren
as
hol●…
as
Ierome
was
:
thei
mighten
translate
oute
of
latine
into
englysh
,
as
he
dyd
out
of
Hebrue
&
greke
into
latine
,
&
els
thei
shulden
not
translatte
now
,
as
hem
thynkith
,
for
defaut
of
holynes
&
kūing
.
Thow
this
replicacion
seme
colourable
:
it
hath
no
good
grounde
nether
reson
nether
chariti
.
For
why
this
replicacion
is
more
ayens
.
s.
Ierom
,
&
ayens
the
first
lxx
.
translators
&
ayens
holi
chirch
,
than
ayens
simple
men
that
translaten
nowe
into
Englyshe
.
For
Seinte
Ierome
was
not
so
holy
as
the
Apostlis
and
Euangelestis
whose
bokis
he
translatid
into
Latyne
,
neither
he
had
so
high
yistis
of
the
holy
goste
as
they
hadden
.
And
myche
more
the.
lxx
.
translatouris
weren
not
so
holy
,
as
Moses
,
and
the
Prophetis
,
and
specially
Dauid
.
Neither
they
hadden
so
greate
yestis
of
God
,
as
Moses
&
the
Prophetis
hadden
.
Forthermore
,
holy
chirch
appreueth
not
only
the
true
translacion
of
meane
Chrysten
men
,
stidfast
in
Chrysten
fayth
:
but
also
of
opine
Heretikis
,
that
dyden
aweye
manye
mysteries
of
Iesu
Chryst
by
gyleful
translacion
,
as
Ierome
wytnessithe
in
oo
Prologe
on
Iob
,
and
in
the
prologe
on
Daniel
.
Mych
more
lette
the
Chirche
of
Englande
appreuie
the
trew
and
holye
translacion
of
simple
men
,
that
wollen
for
no
good
in
erth
by
hir
wyttynge
and
powre
put
awaye
the
lest
truth
,
yea
the
lest
letter
eyther
tytle
of
holy
wryte
,
that
beareth
substaunce
either
charge
.
And
dispute
they
not
of
the
holines
of
men
nowe
lyuyng
in
this
deadly
lyfe
:
for
thei
knowen
not
theron
,
&
it
is
reserued
only
to
godis
dome
.
If
they
knowen
anye
notable
faute
by
the
translatours
either
helpars
of
hem
,
let
hem
blame
the
defaute
by
charitie
,
and
mercye
,
and
let
hem
neuer
dampne
a
thynge
that
maye
be
done
lefully
by
goddis
lawe
.
As
wearing
of
a
good
cloth
for
a
tyme
,
eyther
rydinge
on
an
horse
for
a
greate
iourney
:
whan
they
wytten
not
wherfore
it
is
done
.
For
such
thyngis
moune
be
done
of
simple
men
,
wyth
as
greate
charitie
,
and
vertue
:
as
some
that
holden
hem
greate
and
wyse
,
kunnen
ryde
in
a
gylte
sadle
,
eyther
vse
●…uissins
and
beddis
and
clothis
of
golde
and
of
sylke
with
other
vanities
of
the
worlde
.
God
graunte
pitie
,
mercie
,
and
charitie
&
loue
of
comon
profite
,
and
put
aw
ay
suche
domis
that
bene
ayens
reason
and
charitie
.
Yet
worldly
clerkis
axen
greatly
,
what
spirite
makith
Idiotis
hardy
to
translate
nowe
the
bible
into
Englishe
,
sethe
the
foure
great
doctours
dursten
neuer
do
this
.
This
replication
is
so
lewid
that
it
nedith
none
answer
,
no
but
stilnes
either
curties
scorne
.
For
these
greate
doctouris
weren
none
Englyshe
men
,
neyther
they
weren
conuersaunt
amonge
Egleshe
men
neyther
in
caase
they
co●…den
the
langage
of
Englyshe
men
.
But
they
ceasydē
neuer
tyl
they
hadden
holy
write
,
in
here
mother
tonge
of
here
owne
puple
.
For
Ieron
that
was
a
Latyne
man
of
byrth
translatyd
the
Byble
bothe
out
of
Hebru
and
oute
of
Greke
into
Latyne
,
and
expounded
full
mych
therto
.
And
Austyne
,
&
many
mo
Latins
,
expouneden
the
Bible
for
many
partis
into
Latyne
,
to
Latyne
men
,
amonge
whiche
they
dwellyden
.
And
Latine
was
a
commone
langage
to
here
puple
about
Rome
:
and
biyandis
and
on
this
halfe
:
as
Englishe
is
commone
langage
to
our
puple
,
&
yete
this
daye
:
the
comon
puple
in
Italye
speakith
Latten
corrupt
,
as
trwe
men
seine
that
han
bene
in
Italye
.
And
the
noumber
of
translatouris
out
of
Greke
into
Latine
:
passith
mans
knowynge
:
as
Austyne
wytnesseth
in
the.
ii
boke
of
chrysten
teachynge
:
and
seyth
thus
.
The
translatouris
oute
of
Hebrue
into
Greke
,
moune
be
noumbred
.
But
Latyne
translatoures
,
eyther
they
that
translatiden
into
Latine
,
moune
not
be
noumbred
in
any
maner
.
For
in
the
fyrste
tymes
of
feyth
,
ech
man
as
a
Greke
boke
came
to
him
and
he
semed
to
hymselfe
to
haue
some
kun
:
nynge
of
Greke
and
of
Latyne
,
was
hardy
to
translate
.
And
this
thinge
helped
more
than
lettyd
vnderstondynge
if
readars
be
not
negligente
.
For
whye
,
the
biholding
of
many
bokis
,
hath
shewid
oft
either
declarid
,
some
derker
sentencis
.
Thus
seyth
Austyne
ther.
Therfore
Grosted
seyth
that
,
it
was
goddis
wyl
,
that
diuers
men
translatiden
,
&
that
diuers
translations
be
in
the
chirche
.
For
wher
one
seyd
derkly
,
one
either
more
seyden
openly
.
Lorde
God
,
sithin
at
the
bigynyng
of
feyth
so
many
men
translatiden
into
Latine
,
and
to
greate
profite
of
Latyne
men
:
lete
oo
simple
creature
of
God
,
translate
into
Englishe
for
profite
of
English
men
.
For
if
worldly
clarkis
lokē
,
well
here
Cronicles
and
bokis
,
they
shulen
fynd
that
Bede
translatid
the
Byble
and
expowned
mych
in
saxon
,
that
was
Englishe
either
comone
langage
of
this
londe
in
his
tyme
.
And
not
onely
Bede
but
also
Kyng
Alured
that
founded
Oxenforde
:
translated
in
his
last
daies
,
the
bigining
of
the
Psalter
into
Saxon
,
&
wold
more
,
if
he
had
liued
longer
.
Also
Frenshmen
,
Bemers
and
Britons
,
han
the
Byble
&
other
bokis
of
deuocion
and
of
exposition
,
translated
in
here
Mother
langage
.
Whye
shulden
not
Englishe
men
,
haue
the
same
in
here
Mother
langage
?
I
can
not
wit
.
No
but
for
falsenes
and
neglegence
of
clerkis
either
for
oure
puple
is
not
worthy
to
haue
so
great
grace
&
yist
e
of
God
in
peyne
of
here
olde
synnes
.
God
for
his
mercye
amend
these
euil
causis
:
&
make
our
puple
to
haue
and
kunne
and
kepe
truly
holy
wryte
to
lyfe
and
deathe
.
But
in
translatyng
of
wordis
equiuoke
(
that
is
,
that
hath
many
significacions
vnder
oon
letter
)
maye
lyghtly
be
perile
.
For
Austine
seyth
in
the
.ii
boke
of
christen
teachinge
,
that
if
equiuoke
word
is
be
not
translated
into
the
sence
either
vnderstonding
of
the
autoure
it
is
erroure
.
As
in
that
place
of
the
Psalter
The
feete
of
hem
be
swyfte
to
shed
oute
blude
:
the
greke
worde
is
equiuoke
to
sharpe
and
swyfte
.
And
he
that
translatyd
sharpe
feete
:
erryd
.
And
a
boke
that
hath
sharpe
feete
,
is
false
and
mut
be
amendyd
.
As
that
sentence
.
Unk●…nde
younge
trees
shulen
not
yeue
depe
rootis
:
oweth
to
be
thus
.
Plantyngis
of
auoutre
:
shulen
not
yeue
depe
roots
Austine
saith
this
there
.
Therfore
a
translatoure
hath
greate
nede
to
studye
well
the
sentence
both
before
and
after
:
&
loke
that
such
equiuoke
wordys
accorde
wyth
the
sentence
.
And
he
hath
nede
to
lyue
a
clene
lyfe
and
be
ful
deuout
in
praiers
,
&
haue
not
his
wyt
occupied
about
worldly
thyngis
,
that
the
holy
spirite
,
au
,
toure
of
wysdome
and
kunyng
and
trueth
:
dresse
hym
in
hys
werke
,
and
suffer
hym
not
for
to
erre
.
Also
thys
worde
ex
syngnyfyeth
somtyme
of
,
and
somtime
it
sygnyfyeth
by
as
Ie
rome
seyth
.
And
thys
worde
Enim
.
signyfyeth
commonly
forsoth
,
and
as
Ierom
seyth
,
it
syngnifyeth
cawese
as
thus
.
For
why
.
And
thys
worde
Secundum
.
is
taken
for
after
,
as
mani
men
sayne
and
comonlye
.
But
it
sing
nyfyeth
wel
:
by
,
eyther
,
vp
,
thus
.
By
youre
worde
,
eyther
vp
youre
word
Many
such
Aduerbis
,
coniunctions
and
prepositions
:
ben
set
ofte
one
for
an
othere
,
&
at
fre
choyse
of
autoris
somtyme
.
And
nowe
tho
shoulenne
be
taken
:
as
it
accordyth
best
to
the
sentence
.
By
thys
maner
wyth
good
lyuynge
and
greate
traueyle
:
men
moūe
com
to
trueth
and
clere
translatynge
,
and
trwe
vnderstonding
of
holye
wryte
,
seme
it
neuer
so
harde
at
the
begynynge
.
God
graunt
to
vs
al
to
kune
wel
and
kepe
wel
holy
write
and
suffer
ioifully
some
peyne
for
it
at
the
last
.
Amen
Finis