Daniel 3 Cross References - Bishops

¹ Nabuchodonozor ye king made an image of gold, whiche was threescore cubites hie, and sixe cubites thicke: he set it vp in the plaine of Dura, in the prouince of Babylon ² Then Nabuchodonozor the king sent foorth to gather together the dukes, lordes, and nobles, the iudges and officers, the deputies, and sherifes, with all the rulers of the prouinces, that they might come to the dedication of the image whiche Nabuchodonozor the king had set vp ³ So the dukes, lordes, and nobles, the iudges, & officers, deputies, & sherifes, with all the rulers of the prouince, gathered them together vnto the dedicating of the image that Nabuchodonozor the king had set vp, & they stoode before the image whiche Nabuchodonozor had set vp ⁴ Then an herald cryed a loude: To you it is commaunded O people, nations, and languages ⁵ That whe ye heare the noyse of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, dulcimer, and al maner of instrumentes of musicke, ye fall downe and worship that golden image that Nabuchodonozor the king hath set vp ⁶ Whoso then falleth not downe & worshippeth, shall euen the same houre be cast into the mids of a hot firie fornace ⁷ Therfore when all the folke heard the noyse of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, and al instrumentes of musicke, then all the people, nations, and languages fell downe and worshipped the golden image that Nabuchodonozor the king had set vp ⁸ Nowe were there certayne men of the Chaldees, that went euen then, and cried out an accusation of the Iewes ⁹ They spake, and sayde vnto the king Nabuchodonozor: O king, liue for euer ¹⁰ Thou O king, hast made a decree, that euery man that shall heare the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, dulcimer, & all instrumentes of musicke, shall fall downe and worship the golden image ¹¹ And who so then fel not downe, & worshipped not, that he shoulde be cast into the mids of an hot firie fornace ¹² Now are there certayne Iewes, whom thou hast set ouer the charge of the prouince of Babylon: [namely] Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego: these men, O king, regarded not thy commaundement: yea they will not serue thy gods, nor worship the golden image that thou hast set vp ¹³ Then Nabuchodonozor in his anger and wrath commaunded that Sidrach, Misach, & Abednego should be brought vnto hym: so these men were brought before the king ¹⁴ Then Nabuchodonozor spake vnto them, and sayde: Is it true, O Sidrach, Misach, & Abednego, will not you serue my gods, nor worship the golden image that I haue set vp ¹⁵ Nowe therfore be redy when ye heare the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, dulcimers, and al instrumentes of musicke, to fal downe and worship the image whiche I haue made: for if ye worship it not, ye shalbe cast immediatly into the mids of a hot firie fornace: for who is that God that can deliuer you out of my handes ¹⁶ Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego aunswered the king, and sayd: O Nabuchodonozor, we are not carefull to aunswere thee in this matter ¹⁷ Beholde, our God whom we serue, is able to deliuer vs from the hot firie fornace: and he wil deliuer vs out of thy hande O king ¹⁸ And though he will not, yet shalt thou knowe O king, that we will not serue thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set vp ¹⁹ Then was Nabuchodonozor full of indignation, so that the countenaunce of his face chaunged vpon Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego: therefore he charged and commaunded that they should heate the fornace, one seuen times more then it was wont to be heat ²⁰ And he charged the most valiaunt men of warre that were in his armie, to bind Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the hot firie fornace ²¹ So these men were bounde in their coates, hosen, head attire, with their other garmentes, and cast into the mids of the hot firie fornace ²² Therefore, because the kinges commaundement was straite, & the fornace was exceeding hot, the men that put in Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, the flamble of the fire destroyed them ²³ And these three men Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, fel downe in the mids of the hot firie fornace bounde ²⁴ { (3:91) Then Nabuchodonozor the king was astonied, & rose vp in all haste: he spake vnto his counsel, and sayd, Dyd not we cast three men bounde into the mids of the fire? They aunswered and sayde vnto the king: It is true, O king} ²⁵ { (3:92) He aunswered & sayde: Lo, I see foure men loose, walking in the mids of ye fire, and they haue no hurt: and the fourme of the fourth is like the sonne of God} ²⁶ { (3:93) Upon this went Nabuchodonozor vnto the mouth of the hot firie fornace, he spake also, and sayd: O Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, ye seruauntes of the hye God, go foorth, and come hyther. And so Sidrach, Misach, & Abednego came foorth of the mids of the fire} ²⁷ { (3:94) Then the dukes, lordes, and nobles, and the kinges counsel, came together to see these men, vpon whom the fire had no maner of power in their bodies: in so much that the very heere of their head was not burnt, and their clothes vnchaunged, yea there was no smell of fire felt vpon them} ²⁸ { (3:95) Then spake Nabuchodonozor, and sayde: Blessed be the God of Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, which hath sent his angel, and deliuered his seruauntes that put their trust in him, and haue altered the kinges commaundement, and ieoparded their bodies, rather then they would serue or worship any God, except their owne God onely} ²⁹ { (3:96) Therfore I make a decree, that euery people, nation, & language, which speake any blasphemie against the God of Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, shalbe drawen in peeces, and their houses shalbe made a takes: because there is no God that can deliuer after this sort} ³⁰ { (3:97) So the king promoted Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, in the prouince of Babylon}

²³ Ye shall not make therfore with me gods of siluer, neyther shall ye make ye gods of golde

² And Aaron sayd vnto them: Plucke of the golden earynges which are in the eares of your wiues, of your sonnes, & of your daughters, & bring them vnto me ³ And all the people plucked of the golden earinges which they had in their eares, and brought them vnto Aaron ⁴ And he receaued them of their handes, & fashioned it with a grauer, & made of it a calfe of molten mettel: and they said, These be thy gods O Israel, which brought thee out of the lande of Egypt

³¹ Moyses therefore went agayne vnto the Lorde, and sayde: Oh, this people haue sinned a great sinne, and haue made them gods of golde

²⁵ The graue images of their gods shalt thou burne with fire: and couet not the golde and siluer that is on them, nor take it vnto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abhomination before the Lorde thy God

²⁶ And the wayght of ye golden earinges that he required, was a thousand and seuen hundred sicles of golde, besyde chaynes and iewelles, and purple rayment that was on the kynges of Madian, and besyde the chaynes that were about their camels neckes ²⁷ And Gedeon made an Ephod therof, and put it in his citie Ephrah: And all Israel went a whoryng after it in the same place, which thing became a ruyne vnto Gedeon and to his house

²⁸ Wherupon the king toke counsel, and made two calues of golde, and sayd vnto them, It is muche for you to go vp to Hierusalem: Behold O Israel, these are thy goddes, which brought thee out of the lande of Egypt

¹⁷ Of a trueth Lorde, the kinges of Assyria haue destroyed nations and their landes ¹⁸ And haue set fire on their gods: For they were no gods, but the worke of the handes of man, euen of wood and stone: and they destroyed them

¹ It came to passe that in the dayes of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus whiche raigned from India vnto Ethiopia, ouer an hundred and twentie and seuen prouinces

⁴ Their idols are siluer and gold: euen the workes of mens handes ⁵ They haue a mouth and speake not: they haue eyes and see not ⁶ They haue eares and heare not: they haue noses and smell not ⁷ They haue handes and handle not, they haue feete and walke not: and they vtter no sounde out of their throtes ⁸ They that make them are lyke vnto them: euery one that putteth his trust in them

¹⁵ As for the idols of the Heathen they are but siluer and golde: the worke of mens handes

²⁰ In the selfe same day shall man cast away his gods of siluer, and his gods of golde, into the holes of Mowles and Backes, which he neuerthelesse had made to hym selfe to honour them

²² Ye shall destroy also the couering of your siluer images, and the decking of your golden idols, euen as filthynesse shalt thou put them away: And thou shalt say vnto it, Get thee hence

¹⁹ Shall the caruer make hym a carued image? and shall the goldesmith couer hym with golde, or cast hym into a fourme of siluer plates ²⁰ Moreouer, shal the image maker that the poore man which is disposed may haue some thyng to set vp also, seeke out and choose a tree that is not rotten, and carue thereout an image that moueth not ²¹ Knowe ye nothyng? hearde ye neuer of it? hath it not ben preached vnto you since the beginning? haue ye not ben enfourmed of this by the foundation of the earth ²² It is he that sitteth vpon the circle of the world, whose inhabiters are [in comparison of him] but as grashoppers: he spreadeth out the heauens as a couering, he stretcheth them out as a tent to dwell in ²³ He bringeth princes to nothing, and the iudges of the earth as though they were not ²⁴ So that of them it may be sayde, they be not planted nor sowne agayne, neither their stocke rooted agayne in the earth: for assoone as he bloweth vpon them, they wither and fade away lyke the strawe in a whirle winde ²⁵ To whom nowe will ye liken me, and whom shall I be lyke, saith the holy one ²⁶ Lift vp your eyes on high, and consider who hath made those thinges which come out by so great heapes, and he calleth them al by their names: there is nothing hid from the greatnesse of his power, strength, and might ²⁷ Howe may then Iacob thinke, or may Israel say, My wayes are hid from the Lord, and my God knoweth not of my iudgementes ²⁸ Knowest thou not, or hast thou not hearde that the euerlasting God, the Lorde whiche made all the corners of the earth, is neither weerie nor fainte? and that his wysdome can not be comprehended ²⁹ It is he that geueth strength vnto the weerie, and power vnto the faint ³⁰ Children are weerie and faint, and the strongest men fall ³¹ But vnto them that haue their trust in the Lorde, shall strength be increased: Egles winges shall growe vpon them, when they runne they shall not fall, and when they go they shall not be weerie

⁶ Take out siluer and gold out of your purses, and way it, and hyre a goldesmith to make a god of it, that men may kneele downe and worship it

⁹ Siluer is brought out of Tharsis, and beaten to plates, and gold from Ophir, a worke that is made with the hande of the craftesman, and they are clothed with yelowe silke and scarlet: all these are the worke of cunning men

²⁰ Howe can a man make those his gods, which are not able to be gods

³¹ Thou king sawest, and beholde, there [was] a great image: this great image whose brightnesse was excellent, stoode before thee, and the fourme therof was terrible ³² This images head was of fine gold, his brest and armes of siluer, his belly and his thighes of brasse

⁴⁸ So the king made Daniel a great man, and gaue him many & great giftes: he made hym ruler of all the countreys of Babylon, and the chiefe of the rulers aboue all the wyse men of Babylon

³⁰ { (3:97) So the king promoted Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, in the prouince of Babylon}

²³ But hast lift vp thy selfe against the Lorde of heauen, so that the vessels of his house were brought before thee, that thou and thy princes, with thy wyues and concubines, might drinke wine thereout: and thou hast praysed the gods of siluer and golde, of brasse and iron, of wood and stone, which neither see, heare, nor vnderstand: As for the God in whose hande consisteth thy breath and all thy wayes, thou hast not glorified him

⁴ They haue ordeyned kinges, but not through me, they haue made princes, and I knewe it not: of their siluer and golde haue they made them idols, therfore shall they be destroyed

¹⁹ Wo vnto hym that sayth to the wood, Awake: and to the dumbe stone, Rise vp, it shall teache [thee:] beholde it is layde ouer with gold and siluer, & there is no breath in it

²⁹ Forasmuch then as we are the offpring of God, we ought not to thynke that the Godhead is lyke vnto golde, siluer, or stone, grauen by art, and mans deuice

²⁶ Moreouer, ye see and heare, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath perswaded and turned away much people, saying that they be not gods which are made with handes

²⁰ And the remnaunt of the men whiche were not killed by these plagues, repented not of the deedes of their handes, that they shoulde not worship deuyls, and idoles of golde, and syluer, & brasse, and stone, and of wood, whiche neither can see, neither heare, neither go

⁴ And he receaued them of their handes, & fashioned it with a grauer, & made of it a calfe of molten mettel: and they said, These be thy gods O Israel, which brought thee out of the lande of Egypt ⁵ And when Aaron sawe that, he made an aulter before it, and Aaron made proclamation, saying: To morowe is the holy day of the Lorde ⁶ And they rose vp in the mornyng, and offered burnt offeringes, and brought peace offeringes also: and the people sat them downe to eate and drinke, and rose vp agayne to play

² Whiche called the people vnto the sacrifice of their gods: And the people dyd eate, and bowed downe to their gods

²³ Then the lordes of the Philistines gathered them together, for to offer a solempne offring vnto Dagon their God, and to reioyce: For they sayd, Our God hath deliuered Samson our enemie into our handes

³² And Ieroboam made a feast the fyfteene day of the eyght moneth, lyke vnto the feast that is in Iuda, and offered on the aulter: And so did he in Bethel, to offer vnto the calues that he had made: And he put in Bethel the priestes of the hill aulters which he had made

¹² If a prince delight in lyes, all his seruauntes are vngodly

²⁷ { (3:94) Then the dukes, lordes, and nobles, and the kinges counsel, came together to see these men, vpon whom the fire had no maner of power in their bodies: in so much that the very heere of their head was not burnt, and their clothes vnchaunged, yea there was no smell of fire felt vpon them}

¹ It pleased Darius to set ouer his kingdome a hundred and twentie gouernours, which should be ouer the whole kingdome ² Aboue these he set three princes, of whom Daniel was one, that the gouernours might geue accomptes vnto them, and the king shoulde haue no damage ³ Nowe this Daniel was preferred aboue the princes and gouerners, for the spirite of God was plenteous in him: so that the king was minded to set him ouer the whole realme ⁴ Wherfore the rulers and gouernours sought an occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdome, but they coulde finde none occasion nor fault: for he was so faithfull, that there was no blame nor fault founde in him

⁶ Upon this went the princes and lordes together vnto the king, and saide this vnto him: King Darius, liue for euer ⁷ All the rulers of thy kingdome, the officers and gouernours, the counsellers and dukes, haue consulted together to make a decree for the king, & to establish a statute, That who so desireth any petition either of any god or man within these thirtie dayes, except of thee O king, he shalbe cast into the lions denne

² With whom haue committed fornication the kynges of the earth, and the inhabiters of the earth are dronken with the wyne of her fornication

¹ God standeth in the congregation of God: he iudgeth in the midst of God 2 Howe long wyll ye geue wrong iudgement: and accept the persons of the vngodly? Selah ³ Iudge ryght vnto the poore and fatherlesse: dispatch according to iustice suche as be afflicted and in necessitie ⁴ Deliuer the poore and outcast: saue them from the hande of the vngodly ⁵ They knowe nothyng, they vnderstande nothing: they walke on styll in darknesse, [wherfore] all the foundations of the earth be out of course ⁶ I haue sayde ye are gods: and ye all are chyldren of the most highest ⁷ But ye shall dye lyke as a man [doth:] and princes them selues shall fall away lyke as other [do. ⁸ Arise O God, and iudge thou the earth: for thou shalt take all Heathen to thine inheritaunce

³⁴ But when they knewe that he was a Iewe, there arose a shoute almost for the space of two houres, of all men, crying: great is Diana of the Ephesians ³⁵ And when the towne clarke had pacified the people, he sayde: Ye men of Ephesus, what man is it that knoweth not how that the citie of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddesse Diana, and of the [image] whiche came downe from Iupiter

²¹ Because that when they knewe God, they glorified hym not as God, neither were thankefull, but waxed full of vanities in their imaginations, and their foolishe heart was blynded ²² When they counted them selues wyse, they became fooles ²³ And turned the glorie of the immortall God, vnto an image, made not only after the similitude of a mortal man, but also of birdes, and foure footed beastes, and of crepyng beastes ²⁴ Wherefore God gaue them vp to vncleanenesse, through the lustes of their owne heartes, to defyle their owne bodies among them selues ²⁵ Whiche chaunged his trueth for a lye, and worshipped and serued the creature, more then the creator, which is to be praysed for euer. Amen ²⁶ Wherefore God gaue them vp vnto shamefull lustes: For euen their women dyd chaunge the naturall vse, into that which is agaynst nature ²⁷ And likewise also, the men left the naturall vse of the woman, and brent in their lustes one with another, and men with men wrought fylthynesse, and receaued to them selues the rewarde of their errour (as it was accordyng ²⁸ And as they regarded not to knowe God: euen so God deliuered them vp vnto a leude mynde, that they should do those thinges which were not comely

¹¹ There is none that vnderstandeth, there is none that seketh after God

²⁴ But vnto them which are called both of the Iewes and Grekes [we preache] Christe the power of God, and the wisedome of God ²⁵ For the foolishnesse of God, is wiser then men, and the weakenesse of God, is stronger then men ²⁶ Brethren, ye see your callyng, howe that not many wise men after the fleshe, not many myghtie, not many noble [are called.

¹³ And he dyd great wonders, so that he made fyre come downe from heauen on the earth in the syght of men ¹⁴ And deceaued them that dwelt on the earth, by the meanes of those signes which he had power to do in the syght of the beast, saying to them that dwelt on the earth, that they shoulde make the image of the beast which had the wounde of a sworde, and dyd lyue ¹⁵ And he had power to geue a spirite vnto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast shoulde speake, and shoulde cause that as many as woulde not worship the image of the beast, shoulde be kylled ¹⁶ And he made all both smal & great, rich & poore, free & bonde, to receaue a marke in their right hand, or in their forheads

¹³ These haue one mynde, and shal geue their power & strength vnto the beast

¹⁷ For God hath put in their heartes to fulfyll his wyll, and to do with one consent, for to geue their kyngdome vnto the beast, vntyll the wordes of God be fulfylled

⁹ Then were the kinges scribes called at the same time, euen in the thirde moneth (that is the moneth Siuan) on the three and twentie day thereof, and it was written according to all as Mardocheus commauded vnto the Iewes, and to the princes, to the debuties and captaynes in the prouinces which are from India vnto Ethiopia, namely an hundred twentie and seuen prouinces, vnto euery prouince according to the writing thereof, and vnto euery people after their speach, and to the Iewes according to their writing and language

¹³ A foolishe retchlesse woman full of wordes, and suche a one as hath no knowledge ¹⁴ Sitteth at the doore of her house, and in the hye places of the citie ¹⁵ To call such as go by, and that walke straight in their wayes

⁹ Go vp vnto the hye hyll O Sion thou that bryngest good tidinges, lyft vp thy voyce with power O thou preacher Hierusalem, lyft vp without feare, & say vnto the cities of Iuda: Beholde your God

¹ Crye nowe as loude as thou canst, leaue not of, lift vp thy voyce like a trumpet, & shew my people their offences, and the house of Iacob their sinnes

¹ Nabuchodonozor king, vnto all people, natios, and languages that dwel vpon the whole earth, peace be multiplied among you

¹⁴ And cryed mightily, saying thus: Hew downe the tree, breake of his braunches, shake of his leaues, & scatter his fruite abroade: that the beastes may get them away from vnder hym, and the foules from his braunches

²⁵ After this, wrote king Darius vnto al people, nations, & tongues that dwelt in all landes: Peace be multiplied vnto you

¹¹ Ephraim is oppressed and broken in iudgement, because he wyllyngly folowed the commaundement

¹⁶ Ye kepe the ordinaunces of Amri, and all the customes of the house of Ahab, ye walke in their counsels: therfore wyl I make thee waste, and cause thy inhabiters to be hissed at, and ye shall beare the reproche of my people

⁷ Therfore when all the folke heard the noyse of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, and al instrumentes of musicke, then all the people, nations, and languages fell downe and worshipped the golden image that Nabuchodonozor the king had set vp

¹⁰ Thou O king, hast made a decree, that euery man that shall heare the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, dulcimer, & all instrumentes of musicke, shall fall downe and worship the golden image

¹⁵ Nowe therfore be redy when ye heare the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, dulcimers, and al instrumentes of musicke, to fal downe and worship the image whiche I haue made: for if ye worship it not, ye shalbe cast immediatly into the mids of a hot firie fornace: for who is that God that can deliuer you out of my handes

²⁸ And behelde, and lo the smoke of the countrey arose, as the smoke of a furnesse

⁵ Thou shalt not bowe downe to them, neyther serue them: for I the Lord thy God, am a gelous God, and visite the sinne of the fathers vpon the chyldren, vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me

¹⁷ And of the residue he maketh hym a god, and grauen image for him selfe: he kneeleth before it, he worshippeth it, he prayeth vnto it, and saith, Deliuer me, for thou art my god

²² And all the prisoners of Iuda that are in Babylon, shall take this tearme of cursyng, and say: Nowe God do vnto thee as he did vnto Zedekiah & Ahab, whom the kyng of Babylon rosted in the fire

¹⁸ Thou sonne of man, the house of Israel is vnto me as drosse: all they are brasse, tinne, iron, and lead in the middest of the furnace, euen drosse of siluer are they ¹⁹ Therfore thus saith the Lorde God, Forasmuch as ye all are turned into drosse, therfore beholde I wyll bryng you together vnto Hierusalem ²⁰ Lyke as they gather siluer, brasse, iron, tinne, and lead, into the middest of the furnace, and the fire is blowne there vnder to melt them: euen so wyll I gather you in mine anger & in my wrath, and let you remayne [there] and cause you to melt ²¹ I wyll bryng you together, and blowe the fire of my wrath vpon you, and ye shalbe molten in the middest therof ²² Lyke as the siluer is molten in the furnace, so shall ye also be molten therin, that ye may knowe howe that I the Lord haue powred my wrath vpon you

⁵ The king aunswered and sayde to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone fro me: If ye will not make me vnderstand the dreame with the interpretation therof, ye shall be drawne in peeces, & your houses made a lakes

¹² For the which cause the king was wroth with great indignation, & commaunded to destroy al the wise men at Babylon ¹³ So the decree went foorth, and the wise men were slayne: they sought also to slay Daniel, with his companions

¹¹ And who so then fel not downe, & worshipped not, that he shoulde be cast into the mids of an hot firie fornace

²¹ So these men were bounde in their coates, hosen, head attire, with their other garmentes, and cast into the mids of the hot firie fornace

⁷ All the rulers of thy kingdome, the officers and gouernours, the counsellers and dukes, haue consulted together to make a decree for the king, & to establish a statute, That who so desireth any petition either of any god or man within these thirtie dayes, except of thee O king, he shalbe cast into the lions denne

⁹ And sayth vnto hym: All these wyll I geue thee, yf thou wylt fall downe, and worshyp me

⁴² And shall cast them into a furnesse of fyre: There shalbe waylyng and gnasshyng of teeth

⁵⁰ And shall cast them into a furnesse of fyre: there shalbe waylyng and gnasshyng of teeth

²⁷ And immediatlye the kyng sent the hangman, and commaunded his head to be brought in: And he went, and beheaded hym in the pryson

² And he opened the bottomlesse pit, and the smoke of the pit arose, as the smoke of a great fornace, and the sunne and the ayre were darkened by the reason of the smoke of the pit

¹⁵ And he had power to geue a spirite vnto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast shoulde speake, and shoulde cause that as many as woulde not worship the image of the beast, shoulde be kylled ¹⁶ And he made all both smal & great, rich & poore, free & bonde, to receaue a marke in their right hand, or in their forheads ¹⁷ And that no man myght bye or sell, saue he that had the marke or ye name of the beast, other ye number of his name

¹¹ And the smoke of their torment ascendeth vp euermore: And they haue no rest day nor nyght which worship the beast and his image, and whosoeuer receaueth the prynt of his name

⁷ Babylon hath ben in the Lordes hande a golden cuppe, that maketh all landes drunken: of her wine haue all people drunken, therfore are they out of their wittes

¹⁶ The which in tymes past suffred all nations to walke in their owne wayes

¹⁹ We knowe that we are of God, & the whole worlde lieth in wickednesse

⁹ And the great dragon, that olde serpent, called the deuyll & Satanas, was cast out, which deceaueth all the world: And he was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with hym

³ And I sawe one of his heades, as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wounde was healed: And all the world wondred after the beast

⁸ And al yt dwel vpon the earth, worshipped him whose names are not writte in the booke of lyfe of ye lambe, which was killed from the beginnyng of the world

¹⁴ And deceaued them that dwelt on the earth, by the meanes of those signes which he had power to do in the syght of the beast, saying to them that dwelt on the earth, that they shoulde make the image of the beast which had the wounde of a sworde, and dyd lyue

⁸ The beast that thou seest, was, and is not, and shall ascende out of the bottomlesse pyt, and shall go into perdition, and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder (whose names are not written in the booke of lyfe from the begynnyng of the world) when they beholde the beast that was, and is not, and yet is

²⁰ And the beast was taken, and with hym that false prophete that wrought miracles before hym, with which he deceaued them that receaued the beastes marke, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast quicke into a ponde of fire, burnyng with brymstone

¹² Be it knowen vnto the king that the Iewes which came vp from thee to vs, are come vnto Hierusalem, a citie seditious and froward, and builde the same, and set vp the walles thereof, and lay the foundations ¹³ Be it knowen now vnto the king, that if this citie be builded, and the walles made vp againe, then shal not they geue toule, tribute, and custome, & the kinges profite shall incurre damage ¹⁴ And now in the meane season we haue destroyed the temple, and woulde no longer see the kinges dishonour, therefore sent we out also and certified the king ¹⁵ That it may be sought in the booke of the cronicles of thy progenitours, and so shalt thou finde in the booke of the cronicles, and perceaue that this citie is seditious and noysome vnto the kinges and landes, and that they cause other also among them to rebell of olde: and for the same cause was this citie destroyed ¹⁶ Therfore do we certifie the king, that if this citie be builded againe, and the walles thereof made vp, thou shalt hereafter haue no portion beyond the water

⁶ And thought it to litle to lay handes onely on Mardocheus, for they had shewed him the nation of Mardocheus: wherefore he sought to destroy all the Iewes that were throughout the whole empire of Ahasuerus, and that were of the nation of Mardocheus

⁸ And Haman sayde vnto king Ahasuerus: There is here a people scattred abrode, and dispearsed among all people in all the prouinces of thyne empire, and their lawes are diuers from all people, and do not after the kinges lawes, therefore it is not the kinges profite to suffer them after this maner ⁹ If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and so wyll I waye downe ten thousand talents of siluer by the handes of them that haue the charge of this busines, to bring it into the kinges treasurie

¹⁰ Upon this the Chaldees gaue aunswere before the king, and sayde: There is no man vpon earth that can tell the thing which the king speaketh of, yea there is neither king, prince, nor lorde, that euer asked such thinges at a wyse man, soothsayer, or Chaldean

¹² So they came to the king, & spake before him concerning his comaundement, saying: O king, hast thou not sealed the decree, that within thirtie dayes whoso requireth his petition of any God or man, but onely of thy selfe O king, he shalbe cast into the denne of lions? The king aunswered and said, Yea it is true, according to the lawe of the Medes and Perses that altereth not ¹³ Then aunswered they, and saide vnto the king: This Daniel which is of the children of the captiuitie of Iuda, O king, regardeth neither thee, nor thy decree that thou hast sealed: but maketh his petition three times a day

²⁰ And brought them to the officers, saying: These men trouble our citie, being Iewes ²¹ And preache ordinaunces, which are not lawfull for vs to receaue, neither to obserue, seeyng we are Romanes ²² And the people ran agaynst them, and the officers rent their clothes, and commaunded them to be beaten with roddes

⁶ And when they founde them not, they drewe Iason and certaine brethren vnto the heades of the citie, crying: these that trouble the world, are come hyther also ⁷ Whom Iason hath receaued [priuily.] And these al do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another kyng [one] Iesus ⁸ And they troubled the people, and the officers of the citie, when they hearde these thynges

²² But we wyll heare of thee, what thou thynkest: For as concernyng this sect, we knowe that euery where it is spoke agaynst

³ For it is sufficient for vs that we haue spent the tyme that is paste of the lyfe, after the wyll of the gentiles, walkyng in wantonnesse, lustes, in excesse of wynes, in excesse of eatyng, in excesse of drynkyng, and abominable idolatrie ⁴ And it seemeth to them an inconuenient thyng, that ye runne not also with them vnto the same excesse of riote, and therefore speake they euyll of you

⁴ Upon this the Chaldees aunswered the king in the Syrians speache, O king, God saue thy life for euer: Shewe thy seruauntes the dreame, and we shal shewe the interpretation

⁴ Then an herald cryed a loude: To you it is commaunded O people, nations, and languages ⁵ That whe ye heare the noyse of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, dulcimer, and al maner of instrumentes of musicke, ye fall downe and worship that golden image that Nabuchodonozor the king hath set vp

¹⁰ Now the queene by reason of the talke of the king & his princes, came into the banket house: and the queene spake, and sayde, O king, lyue for euer: let not thy thoughtes trouble thee, and let not thy countenaunce be chaunged

⁶ Upon this went the princes and lordes together vnto the king, and saide this vnto him: King Darius, liue for euer

²¹ Then Daniel saide vnto the king: O king, liue for euer

⁷ Geue to euery man therfore his dutie, tribute to whom tribute, custome to whom custome, feare to whom feare, honour to whom honour [belongeth.

¹⁶ When ye do the office of a mydwyfe to the women of the Hebrues, and see in the birth tyme that it is a boy, ye shall kyl it: but if it be a daughter, it shal liue

²² And Pharao charged all his people, saying: All the men chyldren that are borne, cast into the ryuer, and saue the mayde chyldren alyue

²⁰ And Miriam a prophetisse, the sister of Aaron, toke a tymbrell in her hande, and all the women came out after her with tymbrelles and daunces ²¹ And Miriam sang before them: Sing ye vnto the Lorde, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he ouerthrowen in the sea

¹⁸ And he aunswered: It is not the crie of them that haue the masterie, nor of the that haue the worse: [but] I do heare the noyse of them that sing ¹⁹ And assoone as he came nigh vnto the hoast, he sawe the calfe, and the daunsing: and Moyses wrath waxed whot, and he cast the tables out of his handes, and brake them beneath the hyll

¹⁶ And Dauid spake to the chiefe heades of the Leuites, that they should appoynt certaine of their brethren to sing with instrumentes of musicke, psalteries, harpes, and cymbales, that they might make a sounde, and to sing on hie with ioyfulnesse

²⁸ And al they of Israel brought the arke of the Lordes couenaunt with showting, and blowing of the shawme, and trumpettes, making a noyse with cymbales, psalteries, and harpes

⁵ And Asaph was the chiefe, and nexte to him Zacharia, Ieiel, Semiramoth, Iehiel, Mathathia, Eliab, Benaia, Obed Edom, & Ieiel with instruments, psalteries, & harpes: But Asaph made a sounde with cymbales ⁶ Banaia and Iahaziel priestes blewe with trumpettes continually before the arke of the couenaunt of God

¹ And so Dauid and the captaynes of the hoast appoynted out to do seruice the sonnes of Asaph, and Heman, & Ieduthun, which should prophecie with harpes, psalteries, and cymbales: And there was a multitude of the men that were appoynted to the seruice and ministration ² Of the sonnes of Asaph, Zacur, Ioseph, Nathania, and Asarela that wayted on Asaph which prophecied according to the commaundement of the king ³ Of Ieduthun: the sonnes of Ieduthun, Gedeliahu, Zeri, Iesaiahu, Hasabiahu, and Mathathiahu, sixe, vnder the handes of their father Ieduthun, which prophecied with a harpe, for to geue thankes & prayses vnto the Lorde ⁴ Of Heman: the sonnes of Heman, Bucciahu, Matthaniahu, Uzziel, Zebuel, Ierimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliatha, Geddalthi, Romanthi Ezer, Iosbekasa, Malothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth ⁵ All these were the sonnes of Heman which was ye kinges sear in the wordes of God, to lyft vp the horne [of the regall dignitie:] And God gaue to Hema foureteene sonnes, and three daughters ⁶ All these also were at the hand of their father, singing in the house of the Lord, with cymbales, psalteries, and harpes, when Asaph, Ieduthun, and Heman executed the seruice in the house of God at the kinges commaundement

²⁵ And set the Leuites in the house of the Lorde with cymbales, psalteries, and harpes, according to the commaundement of Dauid and of Gad the kinges sear, and Nathan the prophete: For so was the commaundement of the Lord through the hande of his prophetes

¹² Then were the kinges scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first moneth, & there was written according as Haman commaunded vnto all the kinges officers, and to the captaynes that were ouer euery prouince, and to the rulers of euery people in the countryes on euery side according to the writing therof, and to euery nation after their language, in the name of king Ahasuerus was it writen, and sealed with the kinges ring ¹³ { And the letters were sent by postes into all the kinges prouinces, to roote out, to kill, and to destroy all Iewes both young and olde, children and women in one day [namely] vpon the thirteenth day of the twelfth moneth (which is the moneth Adar) & to spoyle the as a pray} ¹⁴ This was the summe of the writing, that there should be a commaundement geuen in al prouinces, and published vnto all people, that they should be redy against the same day

¹ Sing we meryly vnto the Lorde our strength: make a chearefull noyse vnto the Lorde of Iacob ² Take the psalterie: bryng hyther the tabret, the merie harpe, with the lute ³ Blowe vp the trumpet in the newe moone, euen in the time appointed: and vpon our solempne feast day

¹ It is a good thyng to confesse vnto God: and to syng psalmes vnto thy name O thou most hyghest 2 To set foorth in wordes thy louyng kyndnesse early in the mornyng: and thy trueth in the nyght season ³ Upon an instrument of ten strynges, and vpon the Lute: vpon the Harpe with a solemne sounde

²⁰ Shall the seate of wickednesse haue any thyng to do with thee: which [seate] maketh wrong to be enacted for a law

³ They shoulde prayse his name in a daunce: they shoulde sing psalmes vnto hym vpon a tabret and a harpe ⁴ For God hath a pleasure in his people: he wyll beautifie the afflicted with saluation

³ Prayse ye hym in the sounde of a trumpet: prayse ye hym vpon a Lute and an Harpe ⁴ Prayse ye hym with a tabret and a daunce: prayse ye him vpon the stringes and vpon the Organes ⁵ Prayse ye hym vpon the well tuned Cimbales: prayse ye hym vpon the loude Cimbales ⁶ Euery thyng that draweth breath: ought to prayse the Lorde. Prayse ye the Lorde

¹⁶ Moreouer, I sawe vnder the sunne vngodlynes in the steade of iudgement, & iniquitie in steade of righteousnesse

¹ Wo be vnto them that make vnrighteous lawes, and that causeth their actuaries to wryte greeuousnesse

⁴ Then an herald cryed a loude: To you it is commaunded O people, nations, and languages ⁵ That whe ye heare the noyse of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, dulcimer, and al maner of instrumentes of musicke, ye fall downe and worship that golden image that Nabuchodonozor the king hath set vp ⁶ Whoso then falleth not downe & worshippeth, shall euen the same houre be cast into the mids of a hot firie fornace ⁷ Therfore when all the folke heard the noyse of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, and al instrumentes of musicke, then all the people, nations, and languages fell downe and worshipped the golden image that Nabuchodonozor the king had set vp

¹² So they came to the king, & spake before him concerning his comaundement, saying: O king, hast thou not sealed the decree, that within thirtie dayes whoso requireth his petition of any God or man, but onely of thy selfe O king, he shalbe cast into the denne of lions? The king aunswered and said, Yea it is true, according to the lawe of the Medes and Perses that altereth not

⁵ They sing to the sounde of the viole, they inuent to them selues instrumentes of musicke, like Dauid

⁵⁷ The hye priestes and pharisees had geuen a commaundement, that yf any man knewe where he were, he shoulde shewe it, that they myght take hym

⁷ And the women aunswered one another in their play, and sayde: Saul hath slaine his thousand, and Dauid his ten thousand ⁸ And Saul was exceeding wroth, and the saying displeased him, and he sayd: They haue ascribed vnto Dauid ten thousand, & to me but a thousande: and what can he more haue, saue the kingdome ⁹ Wherfore Saul had an eye on Dauid from that day forwarde ¹⁰ And on the morow, the euyll spirite sent of God came vpon Saul, and he prophesied in the middes of ye house: And Dauid played with his hand, like as at other tymes: & there was a iauelyn in Sauls hand ¹¹ And Saul toke the iauelyn, and sayd: I will nayle Dauid to the wall with it. And Dauid auoyded out of his presence two times

⁸ And Haman sayde vnto king Ahasuerus: There is here a people scattred abrode, and dispearsed among all people in all the prouinces of thyne empire, and their lawes are diuers from all people, and do not after the kinges lawes, therefore it is not the kinges profite to suffer them after this maner

⁴ Wrath is a cruell thing, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: but who is able to abide enuie

⁴ Agayne, I sawe that all trauayle and diligence of labour that euery man taketh in hande, was done of enuie agaynst his neighbour: This is also a vayne thyng, and a vexation of mynde

⁴⁹ Then Daniel made request to the king, and he set Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego ouer the charge of the prouince of Babylon: but Daniel [sate] in the kinges gate

¹³ Then aunswered they, and saide vnto the king: This Daniel which is of the children of the captiuitie of Iuda, O king, regardeth neither thee, nor thy decree that thou hast sealed: but maketh his petition three times a day

²⁸ Saying: dyd not we strayghtly commaunde you, that ye shoulde not teache in this name? And beholde, ye haue fylled Hierusalem with your doctrine, and intende to bryng this mans blood vpon vs

⁷ Whom Iason hath receaued [priuily.] And these al do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another kyng [one] Iesus

⁵ But vnto Cain and to his offeryng he had no respect: for the whiche cause Cain was exceedyng wroth, and his countenaunce abated

³⁰ Then was Saul angry with Ionathan, and sayd vnto him: Thou sonne of the wicked rebellious woman, do not I knowe that thou hast chosen the sonne of Isai vnto thyne owne rebuke, and vnto the rebuke and shame of thy mother ³¹ For as long as the sonne of Isai liueth vpon the earth, thou shalt not be stablished, nor yet thy kingdome: Wherfore nowe send and fet him vnto me, for he is the childe of death ³² And Ionathan aunswered vnto Saul his father, and sayde to him: Wherfore should he dye? what hath he done ³³ And Saul lift vp a speare to hit him, wherby Ionathan wist well that it was vtterly determined of his father to slay Dauid

⁵ And when Haman sawe that Mardocheus bowed not the knee vnto him, nor dyd reuerence vnto hym, he was full of indignation ⁶ And thought it to litle to lay handes onely on Mardocheus, for they had shewed him the nation of Mardocheus: wherefore he sought to destroy all the Iewes that were throughout the whole empire of Ahasuerus, and that were of the nation of Mardocheus

¹² It were better to meete a shee beare robbed of her whelpes, then a foole [trusting] in his foolishnesse

³ The stone is heauie, and the sande wayghtie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both

²² An angry man stirreth vp strife, and he that beareth euyll will in his mynde doth much euyll

¹² For the which cause the king was wroth with great indignation, & commaunded to destroy al the wise men at Babylon

¹⁹ Then was Nabuchodonozor full of indignation, so that the countenaunce of his face chaunged vpon Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego: therefore he charged and commaunded that they should heate the fornace, one seuen times more then it was wont to be heat

¹⁸ And ye shalbe brought to the head rulers, and kynges, for my sake, in witnesse to them, and to the Gentiles

⁹ But take ye heede to your selues: For they shall deliuer you vp to councels, and to synagogues, and ye shalbe beaten, yea, and shalbe brought before rulers & kynges for my sake, for a testimoniall vnto them

¹¹ And they were fylled with madnesse, and communed together among them selues, what they myght do to Iesus

¹² But before all these, they shall laye their handes on you, and persecute you, deliueryng you vp to the synagogues, & into prisons, and shall bryng you vnto kynges and rulers for my names sake

²⁵ Then came one and shewed them, saying: Beholde, the men that ye put in pryson, stande in the temple, and teache the people ²⁶ Then went the ruler of the temple, with the officers, and brought them without violence: (For they feared the people, lest they should haue ben stoned ²⁷ And when they had brought them, they set them before the counsell. And the chiefe priest asked them

²⁴ And after certayne dayes, when Felix came, with his wyfe Drusilla, which was a Iewesse, he called foorth Paul, and hearde hym of the fayth which is towarde Christe

¹³ If a man lay not awayte, but God deliuer [him] into his hande, then I wyll poynt thee a place whither he shal flee ¹⁴ If a man come presumpteously vpon his neyghbour to slay hym with guyle, thou shalt take him from myne aulter that he dye

¹ Bel is fallen, Nabo is broken downe, whose images were a burthen for the beastes and cattell, to ouerlade them, and to make them weerie

² Preache among the gentiles, let your voyce be hearde, make a token, crye out, kepe no scilence, but say, Babylon is wonne, Bel is confounded, and Merodach is ouercome, yea their gods be brought to shame, and their images burst in peeces

¹ Nabuchodonozor ye king made an image of gold, whiche was threescore cubites hie, and sixe cubites thicke: he set it vp in the plaine of Dura, in the prouince of Babylon

⁸ Till at the last Daniel came before me (whose name was Baltassar, according to the name of my God) which hath the spirite of the holy gods in hym, & before him I tolde the dreame, saying

² And Pharao sayde: who is the Lorde that I shoulde heare his voyce, and let Israel go? I knowe not the Lorde, neyther wyll I let Israel go

³² And nowe forgeue them their sinne: or if thou wylt not, wype me I pray thee out of thy booke whiche thou hast written

³⁵ And what god is among al the gods of the nations, that hath deliuered his land out of myne hande? Shall the Lorde deliuer Hierusalem out of myne hande

¹⁵ Wherfore nowe let not Hezekia deceaue you, nor persuade you of this fassion, nor yet beleue him: For as no god among all nations and kingdomes, was able to rid his people out of my hand and out of the hand of my fathers: Howe much lesse shall your gods be able to kepe you out of my hande ¹⁶ And yet mo thinges did his seruauntes speake against the Lorde God, and against his seruaunt Hezekia ¹⁷ And Sennacherib also wrote a letter to rayle on the Lord God of Israel, and spake against him, saying: As the gods of the nations of [other] landes haue not ben able to deliuer their people out of my hande: euen so shal not the God of Hezekia deliuer his people out of my hande

¹⁸ Let not Hezekia deceaue you, when he saith vnto you, the Lorde shall deliuer vs: Myght the gods of the gentiles kepe euery mans lande from the power of the kyng of the Assyrians ¹⁹ Where is the god of Hemath and Arphad? where is the god of Sepharuaim? and who is able to defende Samaria out of my hande ²⁰ Or which of all the gods of these landes hath deliuered their countrey out of my power? Is the Lord in deede able to deliuer Hierusalem from my hande

²³ But thou Sennacherib, whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? Agaynst whom hast thou lifted vp thy voyce, and exalted thy proude lokes? euen agaynst the holy one of Israel

⁵ That whe ye heare the noyse of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, dulcimer, and al maner of instrumentes of musicke, ye fall downe and worship that golden image that Nabuchodonozor the king hath set vp ⁶ Whoso then falleth not downe & worshippeth, shall euen the same houre be cast into the mids of a hot firie fornace

¹⁷ Beholde, our God whom we serue, is able to deliuer vs from the hot firie fornace: and he wil deliuer vs out of thy hande O king

²⁸ { (3:95) Then spake Nabuchodonozor, and sayde: Blessed be the God of Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, which hath sent his angel, and deliuered his seruauntes that put their trust in him, and haue altered the kinges commaundement, and ieoparded their bodies, rather then they would serue or worship any God, except their owne God onely} ²⁹ { (3:96) Therfore I make a decree, that euery people, nation, & language, which speake any blasphemie against the God of Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, shalbe drawen in peeces, and their houses shalbe made a takes: because there is no God that can deliuer after this sort}

¹⁶ Then the king commaunded, and they brought Daniel, and they cast him into the lions denne. Nowe the king spake vnto Daniel, & saide: Thy God whom thou alway seruest, euen he wyll deliuer thee

²⁰ Now as he came nye vnto the denne, he cryed with a pitious voyce vnto Daniel, yea the king spake and saide vnto Daniel: O Daniel, thou seruaut of the liuing God, is not thy God whom thou seruest alway, able to deliuer thee from ye lions

¹⁹ But whe they delyuer you vp, take ye no thought, how or what ye shal speake. For it shalbe geuen you, euen in that same houre, what ye shall speake

⁴³ He trusted in God, let hym delyuer hym nowe, yf he wyll haue hym: for he sayde, I am the sonne of God

¹¹ But when they leade you, and present you, be not carefull aforehande, neither take thought what ye shall speake: but whatsoeuer is geuen you in the same houre, that speake ye. For it is not ye that speake, but the holy ghost

⁷ If thou therfore wilt fall downe before me, & worship me, they shalbe all thine ⁸ Iesus aunswered, & sayde vnto hym, Hence from me Satan: For it is writte, Thou shalt worship the Lorde thy God, and hym only shalt thou serue

¹¹ And when they bryng you vnto the synagogues, and vnto the rulers and officers, take ye no thought, how or what thyng ye shall aunswere, or what ye shall speake

⁹ And yf it beare fruite [thou mayest] let it alone: and yf it beare not then, after that shalt thou cut it downe

¹⁴ Be at a sure poynt therefore in your heartes, not to studie before what ye shall aunswere ¹⁵ For I wyll geue you a mouth, and wysedome, where agaynst, all your aduersaries shall not be able to speake nor resist

⁸ Then Peter, full of the holy ghost, sayde vnto them: Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel ⁹ If we this day be examined of the good deede done to the sicke man, by what meanes he is made whole ¹⁰ Be it knowen vnto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Iesus Christe of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raysed agayne from the dead: euen by hym doth this man stande here before you whole ¹¹ This is the stone which was cast asyde of you buylders, which is the head of the corner ¹² Neither is there saluation in any other. For among men vnder heauen, there is geuen none other name, wherin we must be saued

¹⁹ But Peter and Iohn aunswered, and sayde vnto them: Whether it be ryght in the syght of God, to hearken vnto you more then to God, iudge ye

²⁹ Then Peter and the other Apostles aunswered, and sayde: We ought more to obey God then men

¹⁵ And all that sate in the counsell, loking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had ben the face of an angell

¹⁰ The Paul, after that the deputie hym selfe had beckened vnto hym that he shoulde speake, aunswered: With a more quiet mynde do I aunswere for my selfe, forasmuch as I vnderstande, that thou haste ben of many yeres a iudge vnto this nation ¹¹ Because that thou mayest knowe, that there are yet but twelue dayes, sence I went vp to Hierusalem for to worshyp ¹² And they neither founde me in the temple disputyng with any man, either raysyng vp the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the citie ¹³ Neither can they proue the thynges wherof they accuse me

⁷ Unto these the chiefe chamberlayne gaue other names, and called Daniel, Baltassar: Ananias, Sidrach: Misael, Misach: and Azarias, Abednego

¹² Now are there certayne Iewes, whom thou hast set ouer the charge of the prouince of Babylon: [namely] Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego: these men, O king, regarded not thy commaundement: yea they will not serue thy gods, nor worship the golden image that thou hast set vp

¹ When Abram was ninetie yere olde and nine, the Lorde appeared to hym, and sayde vnto hym: I am the almightie God, walke before me, and be thou perfect

¹⁴ Is any thing vnpossible to God? Accordyng to the tyme appoynted wyll I returne vnto thee [euen] according to the time of life: & Sara [shall] haue a sonne

³⁷ And Dauid spake moreouer: The Lord that deliuered me out of the hand of the lion, and out of the hande of the beare, he shal deliuer me also out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul sayd vnto Dauid: Go, and the Lorde [shall] be with thee

⁴⁶ This day shal the Lorde close thee into my hand, and I shall smite thee, & take thyne head from thee, & will geue the carkases of the hoast of the Philistines this daye vnto the foules of the ayre, & to the beastes of the earth, that all they which be in the worlde, maye knowe that there is a God in Israel

¹⁹ He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, & in the seuenth there shall no euil come to thee

²⁹ When he geueth quietnesse, who can make trouble? and when he hydeth his face, who can beholde him? whether it be vpon nations, or vpo one man onely

¹⁰ (18:9) He ridde vpon the Cherub, and he dyd flee: he came fleeyng vpon the wynges of the wynde ¹¹ (18:10) For his secrete place he dyd put darkenesse: and for his pauilion rounde about hym, he dyd put darknesse of waters in cloudes of the ayre

¹ God is my lyght and saluation, whom then shall I feare? God is the strength of my life, of whom then shall I be afraide ² When the malitious approched neare vnto me for to eate vp my fleshe: mine enemies and foes stumbled and fell

¹ My soule truly only stayeth vpon the Lorde: for of him commeth my saluation ² He onlye is my rocke and my sauing helpe: he is my refuge, so that I can not be remoued greatly ³ Howe long wyll ye imagine mischiefe against euery man? ye shalbe slayne all the sort of you: [ye shalbe] as a tottering wall, [and like] a broken hedge ⁴ They deuise only howe to thrust [him] from his promotion: they delight in a lye, they blesse with their mouth, and curse with their heart. Selah ⁵ [Neuerthelesse] O my soule, stay thou only vpon the Lorde: for my confidence is in him ⁶ He only is my rocke and my sauing helpe: he is my refuge, so that I can not be remoued

²⁰ They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked: O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie

³ Truely our Lorde is in heauen: he hath done whatsoeuer pleased him

⁵ God hym selfe is thy keper: God is thy defence vpon thy ryght hande ⁶ The sunne shal not hurt thee by day: neither the moone by nyght ⁷ God wyll preserue thee from all euill: he wyll preserue thy soule

² Beholde, God is my saluation, in who I wyll trust and not be afrayde: for the Lorde God is my strength and [my] song, he also is become my saluation

³ By an assured purpose wylt thou preserue perfect peace, because they put their trust in thee ⁴ Put ye your trust alway in the Lord: for in the Lorde God there is strength for euermore

¹⁴ In ryghteousnesse shalt thou be grounded, & be farre from oppression: for the which thou needest not be afrayde, neither for hinderaunce, for it shall not come nye thee

⁸ Be not afrayde of their faces: for I am with thee to deliuer thee, saith the Lorde

³⁵ And all they that dwel vpon the earth, are to be reputed as nothing, and according to his will he worketh in the armie of heauen, among the inhabitours of the earth: and there is none that may resist his hand, or say vnto him, what doest thou

²⁰ Now as he came nye vnto the denne, he cryed with a pitious voyce vnto Daniel, yea the king spake and saide vnto Daniel: O Daniel, thou seruaut of the liuing God, is not thy God whom thou seruest alway, able to deliuer thee from ye lions ²¹ Then Daniel saide vnto the king: O king, liue for euer ²² My God hath sent his angel, which hath shut the lions mouthes, so that they might not hurt me, for myne vngiltinesse is founde out before him: and as for thee O king, I neuer offended thee

²⁷ It is he that deliuereth and saueth, he doth wonders and marueylous workes in heauen and in earth, he hath preserued Daniel from the power of the lions

³⁷ For with God, shall nothyng be vnpossible

²⁴ But none of these thynges moue me, neither is my lyfe deare vnto my selfe, so that I myght fulfyll my course with ioy, and the ministerie whiche I haue receaued of the Lorde Iesu, to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God

¹³ Then Paule aunswered: What do ye weepyng and vexyng myne heart? For I am redy, not to be bounde only, but also to dye at Hierusalem for the name of the Lorde Iesu

²⁰ And when neither ye sunne nor starres in many dayes appeared, and no small tempest lay vpon vs, all hope that we should be saued, was then taken away ²¹ But after long abstinence, Paul stoode foorth in the middes of them, and sayde: Syrs, ye shoulde haue harkened to me, & not to haue loosed fro Candie, neither to haue brought vnto vs this harme and losse ²² And nowe I exhort you to be of good chere: For there shalbe no losse of any mans lyfe among you, but of the shippe ²³ For there stoode by me this nyght, the Angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serue ²⁴ Saying: Feare not Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar. And lo, God hath geuen thee all them that sayle with thee ²⁵ Wherfore syrs be of good cheare: for I beleue God, that it shalbe euen as it was tolde me

³¹ What shall we then say to these thynges? If God be on our syde, who can be agaynst vs

²⁵ Wherefore he is able also euer to saue them to the vttermost that come vnto God by hym, seyng he euer lyueth to make intercession for them

³ Thou shalt haue none other Gods in my sight ⁴ Thou shalt make thee no grauen image, neyther any similitude that is in heauen aboue, eyther in the earth beneath, or in the waters vnder the earth ⁵ Thou shalt not bowe downe to them, neyther serue them: for I the Lord thy God, am a gelous God, and visite the sinne of the fathers vpon the chyldren, vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me

⁴ Ye shal not looke vnto idols, nor make you moulten goddes: I am the Lorde your God

¹⁵ And yf it seeme euyll vnto you to serue the Lorde, then chose you this day who you wil serue, whether ye goddes which your fathers serued (that were on the other side of the fludde) either ye goddes of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwel: As for me and my house, we wil serue the Lorde

¹⁵ Lo, though he slay me, yet wyl I trust in him: but I wyll reproue myne owne wayes in his sight

¹ The vngodly fleeth when no man pursueth him: but the righteous are bolde as a Lion

¹² Yea I, [euen] I am he that in all thynges geueth you consolation: What art thou then that fearest a mortall man & the childe of man, which goeth away as doth the floure ¹³ And forgettest the Lorde that made thee, that spread out the heauens, and layde the foundation of the earth: but thou art euer afrayde for the syght of thyne oppressour, which is redy to do harme: where is the wrath of the oppressour

²⁸ { (3:95) Then spake Nabuchodonozor, and sayde: Blessed be the God of Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego, which hath sent his angel, and deliuered his seruauntes that put their trust in him, and haue altered the kinges commaundement, and ieoparded their bodies, rather then they would serue or worship any God, except their owne God onely}

²⁸ And feare ye not them, which kyll the body, but are not able to kyll the soule. But rather feare hym, which is able to destroy both soule and body in hell

³² Euery one therfore, that shall confesse me before men, hym wyll I confesse also, before my father, which is in heaues ³³ But whosoeuer shall denye me before men, hym wyll I also denye, before my father, which is in heauens

³⁹ He that findeth his life, shall lose it: and he that loseth his lyfe, for my sake, shall fynde it

² He aunswered & sayde vnto them: when it is euenyng, ye say, [it wyll be] fayre weather: for the sky is redde

³ Therfore, whatsoeuer you haue spoken in darkenesse, shalbe hearde in the light: and that which ye haue spoken in the eare, euen in secrete places, shalbe preached on the toppe of the houses ⁴ And I say vnto you my friendes, be not afrayde of them that kyll the body, and after that, haue no more that they can do ⁵ But I wyll forewarne you who you shall feare: Feare hym, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell, yea I say vnto you, feare hym ⁶ Are not fyue sparrowes bought for two farthynges? and not one of them is forgotten before God ⁷ Also, eue the very heeres of your head are all numbred. Feare not therfore, ye are more of value the many sparrowes ⁸ Also I say vnto you, whosoeuer confesseth me before men, hym shall the sonne of man knowledge also, before the angels of God ⁹ But he that denyeth me before men, shalbe denyed before the angels of God

¹⁰ Be it knowen vnto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Iesus Christe of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raysed agayne from the dead: euen by hym doth this man stande here before you whole ¹¹ This is the stone which was cast asyde of you buylders, which is the head of the corner ¹² Neither is there saluation in any other. For among men vnder heauen, there is geuen none other name, wherin we must be saued ¹³ Nowe when they sawe the boldnesse of Peter and Iohn, and vnderstoode that they were vnlearned and lay men, they marueyled, and they knewe them that they had ben with Iesu

²⁹ Then Peter and the other Apostles aunswered, and sayde: We ought more to obey God then men ³⁰ The God of our fathers raysed vp Iesus, whom ye slewe, & hanged on tree ³¹ Hym hath God lyft vp with his ryght hande, to be a prince and a sauiour, for to geue repentaunce to Israel, and forgeuenesse of sinnes ³² And we are recordes of these thynges which we say, & so is also the holy ghost, whom God hath geuen to them that obey hym

¹⁰ Feare none of those thynges, which thou shalt suffer: Beholde, the deuyll shall caste some of you into prison, to tempt you, and ye shall haue tribulation ten dayes. Be faythfull vnto the death, and I wyll geue thee a crowne of lyfe ¹¹ Let hym that hath an eare, heare what the spirite sayth vnto ye Churches. He that ouercommeth, shall not be hurt of the seconde death

¹¹ And they ouercame hym by the blood of the Lambe, and by the worde of their testimonie, and they loued not their lyues vnto the death

⁵ But vnto Cain and to his offeryng he had no respect: for the whiche cause Cain was exceedyng wroth, and his countenaunce abated ⁶ And the Lorde saide vnto Cain: why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenaunce abated

² And Iacob behelde the countenaunce of Laban, and beholde, it was not towardes hym as it was wont to be

⁹ The enemie sayde, I wyll folowe [on the] I wyll ouertake [them] I wyll deuide the spoyle, and my lust shalbe satisfied vppon them: I wyll drawe my sworde, myne hande shall destroy them ¹⁰ Thou diddest blowe with thy wynde, the sea couered the, they sanke as leade in the myghtie waters

¹⁸ And yf ye wyl not yet for all this hearken vnto me, then wyll I punishe you seuen tymes more for your sinnes

²¹ And if ye walke contrarie vnto me, and wyll not hearken vnto me, I wyll bryng seuen tymes mo plagues vpon you, accordyng to your sinnes

²⁴ Then wyll I also walke contrarie vnto you, and wyl punishe you yet seuen tymes for your sinnes

²⁸ I wyll walke contrary vnto you also in indignation, and wyll chastise you seuen tymes more for your sinnes

³³ And he put the wood in order, and hewed the oxe in peeces, and layed him on the wood, and said: Fill foure barrels with water, and powre it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood ³⁴ And he sayde: Do so againe. And they dyd so the seconde time. And he sayde againe: Do it the thirde time. And they dyd it the thirde time ³⁵ And the water ran round about the aulter, & he filled the pitte with water also

¹⁰ And Benhadad sent vnto him againe, and sayde: Thus and thus do the gods vnto me, if the dust of Samaria be enough for al the people that folowe me, to take euery man an handfull ¹¹ And the king of Israel aunswered, and sayd: Tell him, let not him that putteth on his harnesse boast him selfe, as he that putteth it of

²⁷ I knowe thy dwelling, thy comming out and thy goyng in, and thy fury against me ²⁸ And because thou ragest against me, & thy tumult is come vp to myne eares, I will put my hoke in thy nostrels, and my byt in thy lippes, and wil bring thee backe againe the same way thou camest

⁷ And the king arose from the bancket and from the wine in his displeasure, and went into the palace garden: And Haman stoode vp, and besought queene Esther for his lyfe: for he saw that there was a mischiefe prepared for him of the king alreadie

¹⁰ The fearcenesse of man shall turne to thy prayse: [and] the remnaunt of the fearcenesse thou wylt restrayne

¹⁴ The kinges displeasure is a messenger of death: but a wise man wyll pacifie hym

²⁴ He that is proude and arrogant; is called a scorner, whiche in his wrath worketh presumptuously

³ The stone is heauie, and the sande wayghtie: but a fooles wrath is heauier then them both ⁴ Wrath is a cruell thing, and furiousnesse is a very tempest: but who is able to abide enuie

²³ But I wil put it into their hande that trouble thee, which haue spoken to thy soule, Stoupe downe, that we may go ouer thee, make thy body euen with the grounde, and as the streete to go vpon

¹³ Then Nabuchodonozor in his anger and wrath commaunded that Sidrach, Misach, & Abednego should be brought vnto hym: so these men were brought before the king

⁶ Then chaunged the king his countenaunce, & his thoughtes troubled hym, so that the ioyntes of his loynes were loosed, and his knees smote one against the other

²⁴ And as for those men which had accused Daniel, the king commaunded to bring them, & to cast them into the lions denne, them, their children, & their wyues: so the lions had the maisterie of them, and brake all their bones asunder or euer they came at the grounde of the denne

⁶³ Saying. Sir, we remember that this deceauer sayde whyle he was yet aliue: After three dayes I wil arise agayne ⁶⁴ Commaunde therfore, that the sepulchre be made sure, vntyll the thirde day: lest his disciples come by nyght & steale hym away, and say vnto the people, he is rysen from the dead: & the last error shalbe worse then the first ⁶⁵ Pilate sayde vnto them: Ye haue the watche, go your way, make it as sure as ye knowe ⁶⁶ So they went, and made the sepulchre sure with the watch, and sealed the stone

⁴ And I say vnto you my friendes, be not afrayde of them that kyll the body, and after that, haue no more that they can do ⁵ But I wyll forewarne you who you shall feare: Feare hym, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell, yea I say vnto you, feare hym

³³ When they hearde that, they claue asunder, and sought meanes to slea the

⁵⁴ When they hearde these thynges, their heartes claue a sunder, and they gnasshed on hym with their teeth

⁴ And when he had caught hym, he put hym in pryson also, and delyuered hym to foure quaternions of souldiers to be kept, intendyng after Easter to bryng hym foorth to the people ⁵ And Peter was kept in pryson: But prayer was made without ceassyng of the Churche, vnto God for hym

²³ And when they had beaten them sore, they cast them into pryson, commaundyng the iayler of the pryson to kepe them diligently

²⁵ And at mydnyght Paul and Silas prayed, and lauded God. And the prysoners hearde them

³³ And the Egyptians were fierce vpon the people, that they myght sende them out of the lande in haste: for they sayde, we be all [but] dead men

⁸ The ryghteous shalbe delyuered out of trouble: and the vngodly shall come in his steade

¹⁸ The vngodly shalbe a raunsome for the righteous: and the wicked for the iust

¹⁵ He aunswered and sayde vnto Arioch the kinges captayne: why is the sentence so hastie from the king? Then Arioch tolde Daniel the matter

² Beholde, I wyll make Hierusalem a cuppe of surfet vnto all the people that are rounde about her: yea Iuda him selfe also shalbe in the siege against Hierusalem ³ At the same time wyll I make Hierusalem an heauy stone for all people, so that al such as lyft it vp shalbe torne and rent, and all the people of the earth shal be gathered together against it

⁵ And he cast downe the peeces of siluer in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged hym selfe

¹⁹ And when Herode had sought for hym, and founde hym not, he examined the kepers, and commaunded them to be caryed away. And he descended from Iurie to Cesarea, and there abode

¹⁹ Great are the troubles of the righteous: but God deliuereth him out of all

¹¹ (66:10) Thou broughtest vs into the snare: and layde trouble vpon our loynes ¹² (66:11) Thou sufferedst men to ride ouer our heades: we went through fire and water, and [yet] thou broughtest vs out into a pleasaunt [place.

¹ (124:1a) If God him selfe had not ben of our side Israel may now say 2 (124:1b) if God him self had not ben of our side when men rose vp against vs ³ (124:2) Then they had swalowed vs vp quicke: when their wrath was so inflamed against vs ⁴ (124:3) Then the waters had drowned vs: the running streame had flowed ouer our soule ⁵ (124:4) Then the waters of the proude: had flowed ouer our soule

⁶ Then toke they Ieremie and cast him into the dungeon of Melchiah the sonne of Amelech, that dwelt in the fore entrie of the prison, and they let downe Ieremie with coardes into a dungeon, where there was no water, but mire: So Ieremie stack fast in the mire

⁵² Mine enemies hunted me out sharply like a byrde, yea & that without a cause ⁵³ They haue put downe my life into a pit, and they haue cast stones vpon me ⁵⁴ They haue powred water vpon my head: then thought I, nowe am I vndone

¹⁶ Then the king commaunded, and they brought Daniel, and they cast him into the lions denne. Nowe the king spake vnto Daniel, & saide: Thy God whom thou alway seruest, euen he wyll deliuer thee ¹⁷ And there was brought a stone, & laide vpon ye mouth of the denne, this the king sealed with his owne ring and with the signet of his princes, that the purpose concerning Daniel should not be chaunged

⁸ For we woulde not brethren haue you ignoraunt of our trouble, whiche came vnto vs in Asia: For we were greeued out of measure, passyng strength, so greatly, that we dispayred euen of lyfe ⁹ Yea, we receaued the sentence of death in our selues, that we should not put our trust in our selues, but in God, whiche rayseth the dead ¹⁰ Who delyuered vs from so great a death, and doth deliuer: On whom we trust that yet hereafter he wyll deliuer

¹⁷ For our exceedyng tribulation which is momentanie & lyght, prepareth an exceedyng and an eternall wayght of glorie vnto vs

¹² Dearely beloued, thinke it not straunge concerning the fierie triall, which thing is to trye you, as though some straunge thyng happened vnto you ¹³ But reioyce, in as much as ye are partakers of Christes passions: that when his glory appeareth, ye maye be mery and glad

⁵⁵ When Saul sawe Dauid go foorth against the Philistine, he sayd vnto Abner the captaine of his hoast: Abner, whose sonne is this young man? Abner aunswered: As thy soule liueth (O king) I cannot tell

² Then Nabuchodonozor the king sent foorth to gather together the dukes, lordes, and nobles, the iudges and officers, the deputies, and sherifes, with all the rulers of the prouinces, that they might come to the dedication of the image whiche Nabuchodonozor the king had set vp ³ So the dukes, lordes, and nobles, the iudges, & officers, deputies, & sherifes, with all the rulers of the prouince, gathered them together vnto the dedicating of the image that Nabuchodonozor the king had set vp, & they stoode before the image whiche Nabuchodonozor had set vp

⁹ They spake, and sayde vnto the king Nabuchodonozor: O king, liue for euer ¹⁰ Thou O king, hast made a decree, that euery man that shall heare the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, dulcimer, & all instrumentes of musicke, shall fall downe and worship the golden image

²² It is thou, O king, whiche are great and mightie, for thy greatnesse increaseth, & reacheth vnto the heauen, so doth thy dominion to the endes of the earth

²⁷ Wherfore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable vnto thee, and breake of thy sinnes by righteousnesse, and thyne iniquities by mercie towarde the poore: lo, let there be a healing of thyne errour

¹⁸ O thou king, the most high god gaue vnto Nabuchodonozor thy father a kingdome, and maiestie, and honour, & glorie

²² My God hath sent his angel, which hath shut the lions mouthes, so that they might not hurt me, for myne vngiltinesse is founde out before him: and as for thee O king, I neuer offended thee

²³ Saying: The pryson truely founde we shut with all diligence, & the kepers standyng without, before the doores: But when we had opened, we founde no man within ²⁴ Then when the chiefe priest and the ruler of the temple, and the hye priestes hearde these thynges, they doubted of them, whervnto this woulde growe ²⁵ Then came one and shewed them, saying: Beholde, the men that ye put in pryson, stande in the temple, and teache the people

⁶ And he both tremblyng and astonyed, sayde: Lord, what wylt thou haue me to do? And the Lorde sayde vnto hym: Aryse, and go into the citie, and it shalbe tolde thee what thou must do

¹³ As Peter knocked at the entrie doore, a damsell came foorth to hearken, named Rhoda

¹³ Euen at mydday, O kyng, I sawe in the way, a lyght from heauen, aboue the bryghtnesse of the Sunne, shyne rounde about me and them which iourneyed with me

²⁷ Kyng Agrippa, beleuest thou the prophetes? I wote wel that thou beleuest

⁶ And vpon a day when the children of God came and stoode before the lord, Satan came also among them

⁷ Where wast thou when the morning starres praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced triumphantly

⁷ The angell of God campeth rounde about them that feare hym: and deliuereth them

³ For he wyll delyuer thee from the snare of the hunter: and from the noysome pestilence ⁴ He wyll couer thee vnder his wynges, & thou shalt be safe vnder his fethers: his faythfulnesse shalbe thy shielde and buckler ⁵ Thou shalt not be afrayde of any terrour of the nyght: nor of any arrowe that sleeth by day ⁶ Nor of any pestilence that walketh in the darknesse: nor of any deadly fyt that destroyeth at hygh noone ⁷ A thousande shall fall beside thee, and ten thousande at thy ryght hande: but it shall not come nygh thee ⁸ Thou only with thine eyes shalt beholde: & see the rewarde of the vngodly ⁹ For thou O God art my hope: thou hast set thine habitation very hygh

⁴ Who hath clymed vp into heauen, and come downe from thence? who hath holden the wynde fast in his hande? who hath gathered together the waters in a garment? who hath established all the endes of the worlde: what is his name, and what is his sonnes name, yf thou canst tell

² If thou goest thorow ye water, I wyl be with thee, the strong fluddes shal not ouerwhelme thee: and if thou walkest thorowe the fire, it shall not burne thee, & the flambe shal not kindle vpon thee

¹⁸ And though he will not, yet shalt thou knowe O king, that we will not serue thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set vp

¹⁸ They shall driue away serpentes: and yf they drinke any deadly thyng, it shall not hurte them: They shall lay their handes on the sicke, & they shal recouer

³⁵ And the Angel aunswered, & saide vnto her: The holy ghost shall come vpon thee, & the power of the hyest shall ouershadowe thee. Therefore also that holy thyng whiche shalbe borne, shalbe called the sonne of God

⁷ The Iewes aunswered hym: We haue a lawe, and by our lawe he ought to dye, because he made hym selfe the sonne of God ⁸ When Pilate hearde that saying, he was the more afrayde

⁵ And he shoke of the Uiper into the fyre, and felt no harme

⁴ And hath ben declared to be the sonne of God, with power after the spirite that sanctifieth, by the resurrectio from the dead, of Iesus Christe our Lorde

¹³ Moreouer, who is it that wyll harme you, yf ye folowe that which is good

¹⁸ And Melchisedech kyng of Salem brought foorth breade and wine: & he [was] the priest of the most highest God

¹⁷ And the priestes that bare the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, stoode drie within Iordane, redy prepared, and all the Israelites went ouer thorowe the drie, vntill all the people were gone cleane ouer thorowe Iordane

¹⁰ For the priestes whiche bare the arke stoode in the middes of Iordane, vntyll all was finished that the Lorde commaunded Iosuah to saye vnto the people, accordyng to all that Moyses charged Iosuah: And the people hasted, & went ouer

¹⁶ Commaunde the priestes that beare the arke of the testimonie to come vp out of Iordane ¹⁷ Iosuah therefore commaunded the priestes, saying: Come ye vp out of Iordane ¹⁸ And when the priestes that bare the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, were come vp out of the middes of Iordane, and assoone as the soles of the priestes feete were set on ye drie land, the waters of Iordane returned vnto their place, and went ouer all their bankes as they dyd before

¹¹ But they aunswered vs with these wordes, and saide: We are the seruauntes of him that is God of heauen and earth, and builde the house that was builded of olde and many yeres ago, which the great king of Israel builded, and set vp

¹⁶ Therfore thus saith the Lorde God, Beholde, I lay in Sion for a foundation a stone, euen a tryed stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: who so beleueth, let hym not be to hastie

¹² For ye shall not escape by runnyng, nor by fleeyng away: but the Lorde shall go before you, and the God of Israel shall gather you together

⁴⁷ The king aunswered Daniel, & sayde: Of a trueth your God is a God of gods, and the Lorde of kinges, and a reuealer of secretes, seing thou couldest reueale this secrete

² I thought it good to shewe the signes & marueylous workes that the hie God hath wrought vpo me

¹⁷ The same folowed Paul and vs, and cryed, saying: These men are the seruauntes of the most hye God, which shewe vnto vs the way of saluation

³⁷ Then sayde Paul vnto them: They haue beaten vs openly vncondempned, beyng Romanes, and haue cast vs into pryson: and nowe woulde they thrust vs out priuily? Nay veryly, but let them come them selues, and fet vs out

²³ For there stoode by me this nyght, the Angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serue

¹⁰ Do I nowe perswade men, or God? Other do I seke to please men? For yf I shoulde yet please men, I were not the seruaunt of Christe

⁵ And a voyce came out of the throne, saying: Praise our Lord God all ye that are his seruauntes, & ye that feare hym both small and great

⁴⁶ This day shal the Lorde close thee into my hand, and I shall smite thee, & take thyne head from thee, & will geue the carkases of the hoast of the Philistines this daye vnto the foules of the ayre, & to the beastes of the earth, that all they which be in the worlde, maye knowe that there is a God in Israel ⁴⁷ And all this congregation shal know that the Lorde saueth not with sword, & speare (For the battaile is ye Lordes) and he shall geue you into our handes

¹⁹ Nowe therfore O Lord our God I besech thee, saue thou vs out of his hande, that all the kingdomes of the earth may knowe that thou onely art the Lorde God

¹⁸ And let them knowe that thou in thy name God eternall art only: O thou the most highest ouer all the earth

⁷ Geue vnto God O ye families of the people: geue vnto God glorie & power ⁸ Geue vnto God glorie [due] vnto his name: bryng an offeryng, and come into his courtes ⁹ Worshyp you God in the maiestie of holynesse: be you in dread of his face all [that be in] the earth

¹¹ Lorde, when thy hande is lyft vp to strike, they see it not: but they shall see it, and be confounded with the zeale of the people, and the fire that consumeth thyne enemies shall deuour them

³⁰ Yea, euen all the heeres of your head are numbred

¹⁷ And hated shal ye be of all men for my names sake ¹⁸ And there shall not one heere of your head peryshe

⁶ When this was noysed about, the multitude came together and were astonnyed, because that euery man hearde them speake with his owne language ⁷ They wondred all, and marueyled, saying among themselues: Beholde, are not all these which speake, of Galilee ⁸ And howe heare we euery man his owne tongue, wherin we were borne ⁹ Parthians, and Medes, & Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Iurie, and in Capadocia, in Pontus and Asia ¹⁰ Phrygia, & Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parties of Lybia, which is besyde Cyrene, & straungers of Rome, Iewes and Proselytes ¹¹ Cretes and Arabians: we haue hearde them speake in our tongues, the wonderfull workes of God ¹² They were all amased, and wondred, saying one to another: What meaneth this

²⁶ For the kyng knoweth of these thynges, before whom also I speake freely, neither thynke I, that any of these thynges are hydden from him: For this thyng was not done in a corner

³⁴ Wherfore, I pray you to take meate, for this no doubt is for your health: for there shall not an heere fall from the head of any of you

³⁴ Quenched the violence of fyre, escaped the edge of the sworde, out of weakenesse were made strong, wared valiant in fyght, turned to flyght the armies of the aliantes

²⁶ He sayde moreouer: blessed be the Lord God of Sem, and Chanaan shalbe his seruaunt

¹⁵ And when the mornyng arose, the angels caused Lot to speede him, saying: Stande vp, take thy wyfe, and thy two daughters which be at hande, lest thou perishe in the sinne of the citie ¹⁶ And as he prolonged the tyme, the men caught both him, his wife, and his two daughters by the handes, the Lorde beyng mercyfull vnto hym: and they brought hym foorth, and set hym without the citie

²⁰ And they were helped [of the Lorde] against them, and the Hagarites were deliuered into their hande, and so were all that were with them: For they cryed to God in the battayle, and he heard them, because they put their trust in him

²⁰ And when they arose early in the morning, they gat them out vnto the wildernesse of Thekoa, and as they went out, Iehosaphat stoode and sayd, Heare me O Iuda, and ye inhabiters of Hierusalem: Put your trust in the Lorde your God, that ye may be founde faythfull: Geue credence to his prophetes, and so shall ye prosper

²¹ And the Lord sent an angel, which destroyed all the men of warre and the lordes and captaynes of the hoast of the king of the Assyrians, that he turned his face againe with shame towarde his owne lande: And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came of his owne body slue him there with the sworde

³ Whosoeuer nowe among you is of his people, the Lord his God be with him, and let him go vp to Hierusalem in Iuda, and builde the house of the Lorde God of Israel, he is the God that is at Hierusalem

¹¹ And such a commaundement haue I geuen, that what man soeuer he be that altereth this word, there shall a beame be taken from his house, and set vp, and he shalbe hanged thereon, & his house shalbe made a dounghill for the same thing

²³ Whatsoeuer also is by the commaundement of the God of heauen, let the same be done without any delay for the house of the God of heauen, that he be not wroth against the realme, & against the king and his children ²⁴ And we certifie you, that ye haue no aucthoritie to require taxing and custome and yerely rentes, vpon any of the priestes, leuites, singers, porters, Nethinims, and ministers in the house of his God ²⁵ And thou Esdras, after the wysdome of thy God that is in thyne hande, set iudges and arbitrers [by my aucthoritie] to iudge all the people that is beyond the water, euen all such as know the law of thy God: and them that knowe it not, those see that ye teache ²⁶ And whosoeuer wyll not fulfill the lawe of thy God, and the kinges lawe, let him haue his iudgement without delay, whether it be vnto death, or to be rooted out, or to be condempned in goodes, or to be put in prison ²⁷ Blessed be the Lorde God of our fathers, which so had inspired the kinges heart, to garnishe the house of the Lord that is at Hierusalem ²⁸ And hath enclined mercie vnto me in the presence of the king and his counsailers, and before all the kinges high estates: And I was comforted euen as the hande of the Lord my God was vpon me, and so gathered I the heades of Israel together, that they might go vp with me

⁴ Our fathers hoped in thee: they trusted in thee, & thou didst deliuer them ⁵ They called vpon thee, and they were helped: they did put their trust in thee, and they were not confounded

¹⁸ (33:17) Beholde, the eye of God is vpon them that feare hym: and vpon them that wayteth after his mercy

²¹ (33:20) For our heart shall reioyce in him: because we haue put our trust in his holy name

⁷ The angell of God campeth rounde about them that feare hym: and deliuereth them ⁸ O taste and see how gracious God is: blessed is the man that trusteth in him

²² God redeemeth the soules of his seruauntes: and al they that put their trust in him, shall not be brought to naught

⁸ O ye people, put your trust in hym alway: powre out your heartes before him, for the Lorde is our hope. Selah

¹¹ For God the Lorde is a sunne and a shielde: God geueth grace and worship, he withholdeth no good thyng from them that liue in any perfection ¹² O God of hoastes: blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee

²⁰ Blesse God O ye his angels mightie in operation: who fulfyll his worde in hearkening vnto the voyce of his word

⁵ Who made heauen and earth, the sea and all that therin is: who mainteyneth the trueth for euer ⁶ Who executeth iudgement for those that are oppressed with wrong: who geueth foode to the hungry

¹¹ God delyghteth in them that feare him: [and] in them that put their trust in his mercie

³⁶ Thus the angell of the Lorde went foorth, and slue of the Assyrians hoaste an hundred fourescore and fiue thousande: and when men arose vp early in the mornyng, beholde they were slayne, and all lay full of dead bodyes

⁷ O blessed is the man that putteth his trust in the Lorde, and whose hope is in the Lorde hym selfe ⁸ For he shalbe as a tree that is planted by the water side, which spreadeth out the roote vnto moystnesse, whom the heate can not harme when it commeth, but his leafe shalbe greene: And though there growe but litle fruite because of drouth, yet is he not carefull, but he neuer leaueth of to bryng foorth fruite

¹⁵ Nowe therfore be redy when ye heare the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, shawme, psaltries, dulcimers, and al instrumentes of musicke, to fal downe and worship the image whiche I haue made: for if ye worship it not, ye shalbe cast immediatly into the mids of a hot firie fornace: for who is that God that can deliuer you out of my handes ¹⁶ Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego aunswered the king, and sayd: O Nabuchodonozor, we are not carefull to aunswere thee in this matter ¹⁷ Beholde, our God whom we serue, is able to deliuer vs from the hot firie fornace: and he wil deliuer vs out of thy hande O king ¹⁸ And though he will not, yet shalt thou knowe O king, that we will not serue thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set vp

²⁵ { (3:92) He aunswered & sayde: Lo, I see foure men loose, walking in the mids of ye fire, and they haue no hurt: and the fourme of the fourth is like the sonne of God}

³⁴ When this time was past, I Nabuchodonozor lift vp myne eyes vnto heauen, and mine vnderstanding was restored vnto me: then gaue I thankes vnto the highest, I magnified & praysed hym that liueth for euermore, whose power is an euerlasting power, and his kingdome is from one generatio to another

²² My God hath sent his angel, which hath shut the lions mouthes, so that they might not hurt me, for myne vngiltinesse is founde out before him: and as for thee O king, I neuer offended thee ²³ Then was the king exceeding glad for him, & commaunded to take Daniel out of the denne: So Daniel was brought out of ye denne, & no maner of hurt was founde vpon him, for he put his trust in his God

²⁶ My commaundement is in all my dominion and kingdome, that men feare and stand in awe of Daniels God: for he is the liuing God which abideth euer, his kindgome shall not fayle, and his power is euerlasting

¹⁰ The sayth Iesus vnto hym: Auoyde Sathan. For it is written: Thou shalt worshyp the Lorde thy God, and hym only shalt thou serue

¹⁹ But the Angel of the Lorde by nyght opened the prison doores, and brought them foorth, and sayde

⁷ And beholde, the Angel of ye Lorde was there present, and a lyght shyned in the habitation: And he smote Peter on the syde, and stirred hym vp, saying: Aryse vp quickly. And his chaynes fell of from his handes ⁸ And the Angel sayde vnto hym: gyrde thy selfe, & bynde on thy sandales. And so he dyd. And he sayeth vnto hym: cast thy garment about thee, and folow me ⁹ And he came out and folowed hym, and wyse not that it was trueth which was done by the Angel, but thought he had seene a vision ¹⁰ When they were past the first and the seconde watch, they came vnto the yron gate, that leadeth vnto the citie, which opened to them by the owne accorde: And they went out, and passed through one streate, and foorthwith the Angel departed from hym ¹¹ And when Peter was come to hym selfe, he sayde: Nowe I knowe of a suertie, that the Lorde hath sent his Angel, and hath deliuered me out of the hande of Herode, and from all the waytyng for, of the people of the Iewes

¹ I beseche you therfore brethren, by the mercifulnesse of God, that ye geue vp your bodyes a quicke sacrifice, holy, acceptable vnto God, [whiche is] your reasonable seruice

⁷ For none of vs lyueth to hym selfe, and no man dyeth to hym selfe ⁸ For yf we lyue, we lyue vnto ye Lorde: And if we dye, we dye vnto the Lorde. Whether we lyue therfore, or dye, we are the Lordes

¹² That we shoulde be vnto the prayse of his glorie, whiche before beleued in Christe ¹³ In whom also ye, after that ye heard the worde of trueth, the Gospell of your saluation, wherin also after that ye beleued, were sealed with the holy spirite of promyse

²⁰ Accordyng to my expectation, and my hope, yt in nothyng I shalbe ashamed: but yt with all boldnesse, as alwayes, so now also, Christ shalbe magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death

¹⁴ Are they not all ministring spirites, sent foorth into ministerie for their sakes which shalbe heyres of saluation

³⁷ They were stoned, were hewen asunder, were tempted, were slaine with sword, wandred about in sheepskinnes, and goates skinnes, beyng destitute, afflicted [and] tormented

²¹ Which by his meanes do beleue on God that raysed hym vp from death, and glorified hym, that ye might haue fayth and hope towarde God

³¹ For their god is not as our God: our enemies also them selues are iudges

⁸ Saluation is of God: thy blessing is vpon thy people. Selah

²⁶ My commaundement is in all my dominion and kingdome, that men feare and stand in awe of Daniels God: for he is the liuing God which abideth euer, his kindgome shall not fayle, and his power is euerlasting ²⁷ It is he that deliuereth and saueth, he doth wonders and marueylous workes in heauen and in earth, he hath preserued Daniel from the power of the lions

³⁰ Wherefore the Lorde God of Israel saith: I sayde, that thy house and the house of thy father should walke before me for euer: But nowe the Lorde saith, That be farre fro me: For them that worship me, I wyll worship, and they that despise me, shall come to shame

³ And he shalbe lyke a tree planted by the waters syde, that bryngeth foorth her fruite in due season: and whose leafe wythereth not, for whatsoeuer he doth it shall prosper

¹⁴ Because he hath set greatly his loue vpon me, therfore wyll I deliuer hym: I wyll set hym vp out of all daunger, because he hath knowen my name

²⁶ If any man minister vnto me, let hym folowe me: And where I am, there shall also my minister be. If any man minister vnto me, hym wyll my father honour