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. XL.
note
The first matter of spiritual meditation may be mans miserie, contracted by
original sinne, 4. and increased by actual, 17. reliued by Gods grace:
22. which geueth manie benefites, 27. man adding his voluntarie
cooperation.
1 Great trauel is created to al men, and an heauie yoke
vpon the children of Adam, from note the day of their
coming forth of their mothers wombe, vntil the day of their
burying, into the mother of al.
2 Their cogitations, and
feares of the hart, imagination of thinges to come, and the
day of their ending:
3 from him that sitteth vpon the glorious
seate, vnto him that is humbled in earth & ashes.
4 From
him that weareth hyacinth, and beareth the crowne, euen
to him, that is couered with rude linen: furie, enuie, tumult,
wauering, and the feare of death, anger perseuering, and
contention,
5 and in the time of repose in bed, the sleepe
of night changeth his knowlege.
6 A litle is as nothing
in rest, and afterward in sleepe, as in the day of watche.
7 He is trubled in the vision of his hart, as he that hath escaped
in the day of battel. In the time of his safetie he rose vp, and
merueleth at noe feare:
8 With al flesh, from man euen to
beast, and vpon sinners seuenfold.
9 Beside these thinges,
death, bloud, contention, and sword, oppressions, famine,
-- --
and contrition, and scourges:
10 for the wicked al these were
created, and for them the floud was made.
11 Al thinges that
are of the earth, shal turne into the earth, and al waters shal
returne into the sea.
12 Al bribing, and iniquitie shal be cleane
taken away, and fidelitie shal stand for euer.
13 The riches of
the vniust shal be dried vp as a riuer, and they shal sound as
great thunder in rayne.
14 In opening his handes he shal reioyce:
so transgressors shal pine away in consumption.
15 The
nephewes of the impious shal not multiplie boughes, nor vncleane
rootes sound vpon the toppe of a rocke.
16 Ouer al water
grennes, and at the brincke of the riuer it shal be plucked vp
before al grasse.
17 Grace is as paradise in blessinges, and mercie
remayneth for euer.
18 The life of a workeman that is sufficient
for himself shal be sweete, and in it thou shalt finde a
treasure.
19 Children, and building of a citie shal confirme the
name, and an vnspotted woman shal be counted aboue this.
20 Wine and musicke make a ioyful hart: and the loue of wisedom
is aboue both.
21 Shalmes, and Psalterie make sweete
melodie, and a sweete tongue is aboue both.
22 Thine eye wil
desire grace and beautie, and note greene sowen fieldes are aboue
this.
23 A freind and companion meeting together in
time, and aboue them both is a woman with her husband.
24 Bretheren are an helpe in the time of tribulation, and mercie
shal deliuer more then they.
25 Gold and siluer are the establishing
of the feete: and counsel is wel accepted aboue them
both.
26 Riches and strength exalt the hart, and aboue these is
the feare of our Lord.
27 There is no diminution in the feare
of our Lord, and in it there is no neede to seeke for helpe.
28 The feare of our Lord is as a paradise of blessing, and they
haue couered it aboue al glorie.
29 Sonne in thy life time note want
not: for it is better to die then to want.
30 A man that looketh
toward an other mans table, his life is as no life, thinking how
to liue, for he feedeth his soule with an other mans meates.
31 But a man nurtered, and taught wil looke to him selfe.
32 Pouertie wil be sweete in the mouth of the vnwise, and in
his bellie a fire wil burne.
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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