Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. III.
The prayer Tobias, 7. and Sara, in their seueral afflictions, 24. are heard
by God, and the Angel Raphael is sent to releeue them.
1 Then Tobias lamented, and began to pray with teares,
2 saying: Thou art iust ô Lord, & al thy iudgementes are
iust, and al thy waies, mercie, & truth, and iudgement.
3 And
now Lord be mindful of me, and take not reuenge of my
sinnes, neither remember the sinnes of me, or of my parentes.
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4 Because we haue not obeyed thy commandmentes, therfore
we are deliuered in spoile, and captiuitie, and death, and
into a fable, and into reproch to al nations, in which thou
hast dispersed vs.
5 And now Lord great are thy iudgementes,
because we haue not done according to thy preceptes, & haue
not walked sincerely before thee:
6 and now Lord according
to thy wil do with me, & command my spirite to be receiued
in peace: for it is expedient for me to die, rather then to liue.
7 The verie same day therfore it chanced that Sara the daughter
of Raguel in note Rages a citie of the Medes, she also heard
reproch of one of her fathers handmaydes,
8 because she had
beene deliuered to seuen husbandes, & the diuel named note Asmodeus
had killed them, forthwith as they were entred in
vnto her.
9 Therfore when she rebuked the wench for her
fault, she answered her, saying: Let vs no more see sonne of
thee, or daughter vpon the earth, thou murderer of thy husbandes.
10 What wilt thou kil me also, as thou hast now killed
seuen husbandes? At this voice she went into an higher chamber
of her house: and three dayes, and three nightes did not
eate, nor drinke:
11 but continewing in prayer with teares
besought God, that he would deliuer her from this reproch.
12 And it came to passe the third day, whiles she accomplished
her prayer, blessing our Lord,
13 she sayd: Blessed is thy name
ô God of our fathers: who when thou hast bene angrie, wilt
doe mercie, & in the time of tribulation forgeuest them their
sinnes, that inuocate thee.
14 To thee ô Lord I turne my face,
to thee I direct myne eyes.
15 I desire Lord that thou loose me
from the bond of this reproch, or els take me away from
the earth.
16 Thou knowest Lord that I neuer coueted a husband,
and haue kept my soule cleane from al concupiscence.
17 Neuer haue I companied my self with sporters: neither
haue I made my selfe partaker with them that walke in lightnesse.
18 But a husband I consented to take, with thy feare,
not with my lust.
19 And either I was vnworthie of them, or
they perhaps were not worthie for me: because perhaps thou
hast kept me for an other man.
20 For thy counsel is not in
mans power.
21 But this hath euerie one for certayne, that
worshippeth thee, that his life, if it be in probation, shal be
crowned: and if it be in tribulation, it shal be deliuered: and
if it be in correction, it shal be lawful to come to thy mercie.
22 For thou art not delighted in our perditions: because after
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a tempest thou makest a calme, and after teares and weeping
thou powrest in ioyfulnesse.
23 Be thy name God of Israel
blessed foreuer.
24 At that time the prayers of both were heard
in the sight of the glorie of the high God:
25 and the holie Angel
of our Lord Raphael was sent, to cure them both, whose
prayers at one time were note recited in the sight of our Lord.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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