And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them.
Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
That the land spew not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you.For whosoeuer shall commit any of these abominations, euen the soules that commit them, shall be cut off from among their people.
Let them alone: they be blinde leaders of the blinde. And if the blinde lead the blinde, both shall fall into the ditch.
And Adam knew Eue his wife, and shee conceiued, and bare Cain, and said, I haue gotten a man from the LORD.
But the men would not hearken to him: so the man tooke his concubine, and brought her foorth vnto them, and they knew her, and abused her all the night vntil the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her goe.
And there appeared a great wonder in heauen, a woman clothed with the Sunne, & the Moone vnder her feete, and vpon her head a Crowne of twelue starres:
With whom the kings of the earth haue committed fornication, and the inhabiters of the earth haue beene made drunk with the wine of her fornication.So he caried me away in the Spirit into the wildernesse: and I saw a woman sit vpō a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, hauing seuen heads, and ten hornes.And the woman was arayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold, and precious stone & pearles, hauing a golden cup in her hand, full of abominations and filthinesse of her fornication.And vpon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots, And Abominations Of The Earth.
In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread, till thou returne vnto the ground: for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and vnto dust shalt thou returne.
Then shall the dust returne to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall returne vnto God who gaue it.
Now there was a day, when the sons of God came to present themselues before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.
Againe there was a day when the sonnes of God came to present themselues before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himselfe before the Lord.
And I saw three vncleane spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, & out of the mouth of the beast, & out of the mouth of the false prophet.For they are the spirits of deuils working miracles, which goe forth vnto the Kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battell of that great day of God Almighty.Behold, I come as a thiefe. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, least hee walke naked, and they see his shame.And hee gathered them together into a place, called in the Hebrewe tongue, Armageddon.
And here is the mind which hath wisedome. The seuen heads are seuen mountaines, on which the woman sitteth.And there are seuen Kings, fiue are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come: and when he commeth, he must continue a short space.And the beast that was, and is not, euen he is the eighth, & is of the seuen, and goeth into perdition.And the tenne hornes which thou sawest, are ten kings, which haue receiued no kingdom as yet: but receiue power as kings one houre with the beast.These haue one minde, and shall giue their power and strength vnto the beast.These shal make warre with the Lambe, and the Lambe shal ouercome them: For he is Lord of Lords, and King of kings, and they that are with him, are called, & chosen, and faithfull.
For I am the Lord your God: yee shall therefore sanctifie your selues, and ye shall be holy, for I am holy: neither shall ye defile your selues with any maner of creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth.
For the bewitching of naughtines doth obscure things that are honest: and the wandring of concupiscence, doth vndermine the simple mind.
Then he brought me to the doore of the gate of the Lords house which was towards the North, and behold, there sate women weeping for Tammuz.
Therefore shall a man leaue his father and his mother, and shall cleaue vnto his wife: and they shalbe one flesh.
And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
The Lord of that seruant will come in a day when hee looketh not for him, and at an houre when hee is not ware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the vnbeleeuers.
And the third day there was a mariage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Iesus was there.And both Iesus was called, and his disciples, to the mariage.And when they wanted wine, the mother of Iesus saith vnto him, They haue no wine.Iesus saith vnto her, Woman, what haue I to doe with thee? mine houre is not yet come.His mother saith vnto þe seruants, Whatsoeuer he saith vnto you, doe it.And there were set there sixe water pots of stone, after the maner of the purifying of the Iewes, conteining two or three firkins apeece.Iesus saith vnto them, Fill the water pots with water. And they filled them vp to the brimme.And hee saith vnto them, Drawe out now, and beare vnto the gouernor of the feast. And they bare it.When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was, (but the seruants which drew the water knew) the gouernor of the feast called the bridegrome,And saith vnto him, Euery man at the beginning doth set foorth good wine, and when men haue well drunke, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine vntill now.This beginning of miracles did Iesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory, and his disciples beleeued on him.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.And the light shineth in darknesse, and the darknesse comprehended it not.There was a man sent from God, whose name was Iohn.The same came for a witnesse, to beare witnesse of the light, that all men through him might beleeue.Hee was not that light, but was sent to beare witnesse of that light.
Yee are the salt of the earth: But if the salt haue lost his sauour, wherewith shall it bee salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be troden vnder foote of men.
Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties were,Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste,The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show,Of mouthed graves will give thee memory,Thou by thy dials shady stealth mayst know,Time's thievish progress to eternity.Look what thy memory cannot contain,Commit to these waste blacks, and thou shalt findThose children nursed, delivered from thy brain,To take a new acquaintance of thy mind. These offices, so oft as thou wilt look, Shall profit thee and much enrich thy book.
Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now,Now while the world is bent my deeds to cross,Join with the spite of fortune, make me bow.And do not drop in for an after loss:Ah do not, when my heart has scaped this sorrow,Come in rearward of a conquered woe,Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,To linger out a purposed over-throw.If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,When other petty griefs have done their spite,But in the onset come, so shall I tasteAt first the very worst of fortune's might. And other strains of woe, which now seem woe, Compared with loss of thee, will not seem so.
Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness,Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport,Both grace and faults are loved of more and less:Thou mak'st faults graces, that to thee resort:As on the finger of a throned Queen,The basest Jewel will be well esteemed:So are those errors that in thee are seen,To truths translated, and for true things deemed.How many Lambs might the stern Wolf betray,If like a Lamb he could his looks translate.How many gazers mightst thou lead away,If thou wouldst use the strength of all thy state? But do not so, I love thee in such sort, As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments, love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O no, it is an ever fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wand'ring bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle's compass come,Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of doom: If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
My Mistress’ eyes are nothing like the Sun,Coral is far more red, than her lips red,If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun:If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head:I have seen Roses damasked, red and white,But no such Roses see I in her cheeks,And in some perfumes is there more delight,Than in the breath that from my Mistress reeks.I love to hear her speak, yet well I know,That Music hath a far more pleasing sound:I grant I never saw a goddess go,My Mistress when she walks treads on the ground. And yet by heaven I think my love as rare, As any she belied with false compare.
