1THVS sayth our Lord: I brought this people out of bondage, whom I gaue commandments by my seruantes the, prophetes whom they would not heare, but made my counsels voide.stylus2The mother that bare them, sayth to them: Goe ye children, because I am a widow and forsaken.stylus3I brought you vp with gladnes, and I haue lost you with mourning and sorow, because you haue sinned before the Lord God, and haue done euil before him.stylus4But now what shal I doe to you? I am a widow and forsaken: goe ye children, & aske mercie of our Lord.stylus5And I cal thee father a witnesse vpon the mother of the children, because they would not kepe my testament,stylus6that thou bring them to confusion, and their mother to spoile, that there be no propagation of them.stylus7Let them be scatered into the nations, let their name be put out of the earth: because they haue despised my sacrament.stylus8Woe be to thee Assur, which hydest the iniquious with thee: o wicked nation remember what I did to Sodom and Gomorrhe:stylus9whose land lieth in cloddes of pitch and heapes of ashes: so wil I doe to them, that haue not heard me, sayth the Lord omnipotent.stylus10Thus sayth our Lord to Esdras: Tel my people, that I wil geue them the kingdom of Ierusalem, which I had to geue to Israel.stylus11And I wil take their glorie to me, and wil geue them the eternal tabernacles, which I had prepared for them.stylus12The tree of life shal be to them for an ointment of odor, and they shal not labour, nor faynt.stylus13Goe ye and you shal receiue: pray for few dayes to you, that they may be shortened: the kingdom is now prepared for you, watch ye.stylus14Testifie heauen and earth, for I haue broken the euil, and created the good: because I liue, sayth our Lord.stylus15Mother embrace thy children: bring them vp with gladnes, as a doue confirmeth their feete: because I haue chosen thee, sayth our Lord.stylus16And I wil raise vp the dead out of their places, and wil bring them out of the monuments: for I haue knowen my name in Israel.stylus17Feare not mother of the children, because I haue chosen thee, sayth our Lord.stylus18I wil send thee helpe my seruantes Isay, and Ieremie: at whose counsel I haue sanctified and prepared for thee twelue trees burdened with diuers fruites,stylus19and as manie fountaines flowing milke and honie: and seuen most high mountaines, hauing roses and lilies, in the which I wil fil thy children with ioy.stylus20Iustifie the widow, iudge for the pupil, geue to the poore, defend the orphan, clothe the naked,stylus21cure the broken and the weake, laugh not a lame man to scorne, defend the lame,and let the blind man come into the sight of my clearnes.stylus22Kepe the old man and the yong within thy walles,stylus23Wherasour thou findest the dead, signe them, committing them to the sepulchre, & I wil geue thee the first seate in my resurrection.stylus24Pause and be quiet my people, because thy rest shal come.stylus25Nourish thy children good nource, establish their feete.stylus26Of thy seruantes, whom I haue geuen thee, not one shal perish: for I wil require them of thy number.stylus27Be not careful: for when the day of tribulation and distresse shal come, others shal weepe and be sorowful, but thou shalt be merie and haue abundance.stylus28The nations shal enuie thee, and shal be able to doe nothing against thee, sayth our Lord.stylus29My handes shal couer thee, that thy children see not hel.stylus30Be ioyful O mother with thy children, because I wil deliuer thee, sayth our Lord.stylus31Remember thy children that slepe, because I wil bring them out of the sides of the land, and wil shew mercie to them: for I am merciful, sayth the Lord omnipotent.stylus32Embrace thy children, til I come, and shew mercie to them: for my welles runne ouer, and my grace shal not fayle.stylus33I Esdras receiued a precept of our Lord in the mount Horeb, that I should goe to Israel. To whom when I came, they refused me, and reiected the commandement of our Lord:stylus34Therefore to you I say, O nations which heare and vnderstand, expect your pastour, he wil geue you rest euerlasting: for he is nigh at hand, that shal come in the end of the world.stylus35Be readie to the rewardes of the kingdom, because the perpetual light shal shyne to you for euermore.stylus36Flee the shadow of this world: receiue the ioyfulnes of your glorie: I testifie my sauiour openly.stylus37Receiue the gift comended to you, and be ioyful, geuing thankes to him, that hath called you to the heauenlie kingdomes.stylus38Rise and stand, and see the number of the signed in the feast of our Lord.stylus39Which are translated from the shadow of the world, haue receiued splendid stoles from our Lord.stylus40Take thy number O Sion, and shut vp thy whited ones, which haue fulfilled the law of our Lord.stylus41The number of thy children, whom thou didst desire is fulfilled: besech the imperiof our Lord, that thy people may be sanctified, which is called from the beginning.stylus42I Esdras saw in the mount Sion a great multitude, which I could not number, and they al praysed our Lord with songues.stylus43And in the middes of them a yong man of high stature brighter then al they, and he gaue crownes on the head of euerie one, and was more exalted. And I merueled.stylus44Then I asked an Angel, and sayd: Who are these Lord?stylus45Who answering sayd to me: These are they that haue put of the mortal cote, and haue put on the immortal, and haue confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receiue palmes.stylus46And I sayd to the Angel: That yong man, who is he, that crowneth them, and geueth palmes into their handes?stylus47And answering he sayd to me: He is the sonne of God, whom they confessed in the world. And I began to glorifie them, that stood strongly for the name of our Lord.stylus48Then the Angel sayd to me: Goe, and tel my people, how great, and how manie meruelous thinges of the Lord God thou hast seene.stylus
