Whosoever will serve God must have justice, fear of God, and patience; 6. with confidence in God. 14. Dissemblers, incredulous, and impatient shall be miserable; 18. but the godly shall receive more grace.Whosoeuer wil serue God must haue iustice, feare of God, and patience; 6. with confidence in God. 14. Dissemblers, incredulous, and impatient shal be miserable; 18. but the godlie shal receiue more grace.✦
Son coming to the service of God, stand in justice, and in fear, and prepare thy soul to temptation.SONNE coming to the seruice of God, stand in iustice, and in feare, & prepare thy soule to tentation.✦Fili, accedens ad servitutem Dei sta in justitia et timore, et præpara animam tuam ad tentationem.
2Repress thy heart, and sustain: incline thine ear, and receive the words of understanding: and make no haste in the time of obductionis: a covering over, a time of clouding or adversity.Represse thy hart, & susteyne: incline thine eare, & receiue the wordes of vnderstanding: and make no hast in the time of * obduction.✦Deprime cor tuum, et sustine : inclina aurem tuam, et suscipe verba intellectus : et ne festines in tempore obductionis.
3Sustain the sustentationes: sustainings, upholdings of God: be joined to God, and sustain, that thy life may increase in the later end.Susteyne the sustentations of God: be ioyned to God, and susteyne, that thy life may increase in the later end.✦Sustine sustentationes Dei : conjungere Deo, et sustine, ut crescat in novissimo vita tua.
4All, that shall be applied to thee, receive: and in sorrow sustain, and in thy humiliation have patience:Al, that shal be applied to thee, receiue: and in sorow susteyne, and in thy humiliation haue patience:✦Omne quod tibi applicitum fuerit accipe : et in dolore sustine, et in humilitate tua patientiam habe :
5for gold and silver are tried in the fire, but acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.for gold and siluer are tryed in the fyre, but acceptable men in the fornace of humiliation.✦quoniam in igne probatur aurum et argentum, homines vero receptibiles in camino humiliationis.
6Believe God, and he will recover thee: and direct thy way, and hope in him. Keep his fear, and grow old therein.Beleue God, and he wil recouer thee: and direct thy way, and hope in him. Keepe his feare, and grow old therin.✦Crede Deo, et recuperabit te : et dirige viam tuam, et spera in illum : serva timorem illius, et in illo veterasce.
7Ye that fear our Lord expect his mercy: and decline not from him lest ye fall.Ye that feare our Lord expect his mercie: & decline not from him lest ye fal.✦Metuentes Dominum, sustinete misericordiam ejus : et non deflectatis ab illo, ne cadatis.
8Ye that fear our Lord, believe him, and your reward shall not be void.Ye that feare our Lord, beleue him, and your reward shal not be voyde.✦Qui timetis Dominum, credite illi, et non evacuabitur merces vestra.
9Ye that fear our Lord, hope in him: and mercy shall come to you for your oblectationem: delight.Ye that feare our Lord, hope in him: and mercie shal come to you for your delectation.✦Qui timetis Dominum, sperate in illum, et in oblectationem veniet vobis misericordia.
10Ye that fear our Lord, love him, and your hearts shall be illuminated.Ye that feare our Lord, loue him, & your hartes shal be illuminated.✦Qui timetis Dominum, diligite illum, et illuminabuntur corda vestra.
11Children behold the nations of men: and know ye that none hath hoped in our Lord, and hath been confounded.Children behold the nations of men: and know ye that none hath hoped in our Lord, and hath bene confounded.✦Respicite, filii, nationes hominum : et scitote quia nullus speravit in Domino et confusus est.
12For who hath continued in his commandment, and hath been forsaken? or who hath invocated him, and he despised him?For who hath continewed in his commandment, and hath bene forsaken? or who hath inuocated him, and he despised him?✦Quis enim permansit in mandatis ejus, et derelictus est ? aut quis invocavit eum, et despexit illum ?
13Because God is pitiful and merciful, and will forgive sins in the day of tribulation: and he is protector to all that seek him in truth.Because God is pitiful and merciful, and wil forgeue sinnes in the day of tribulation: and he is protector to al that seeke him in truth.✦Quoniam pius et misericors est Deus, et remittet in die tribulationis peccata, et protector est omnibus exquirentibus se in veritate.
14Woe to them of a double heart, and to wicked lips, and to the hands that do evil, and to the sinner that goeth on the earth two ways.Woe to them of a duble hart, and to wicked lippes, and to the handes that doe euil, and to the sinner that goeth on the earth two wayes.✦Væ duplici corde, et labiis scelestis, et manibus malefacientibus, et peccatori terram ingredienti duabus viis !
15Woe to them that be dissolutis: debauched; slack, unstrung of heart, which believe not God: and therefore they shall not be protected of him.Woe to them that be dissolute of hart, which beleue not God: and therefore they shal not be protected of him.✦Væ dissolutis corde, qui non credunt Deo, et ideo non protegentur ab eo !
16Woe be to them, that have lost patience, and that have forsaken the right ways, and have declined into perverse ways.Woe be to them, that haue lost patience, and that haue forsaken the right wayes, and haue declined into peruerse wayes.✦Væ his qui perdiderunt sustinentiam, et qui dereliquerunt vias rectas, et diverterunt in vias pravas !
17And what will they do, when our Lord shall begin to look on them?And what wil they doe, when our Lord shal begynne to looke on them?✦Et quid facient cum inspicere cœperit Dominus ?
18They that fear our Lord, will not be incredibiles: astonished; unbelieving, without faith to his word: and they that love him, will keep his way.They that feare our Lord, wil not be incredulous to his word: and they that loue him, wil kepe his waye.✦Qui timent Dominum non erunt incredibiles verbo illius : et qui diligunt illum conservabunt viam illius.
19They that fear our Lord, will seek after the things that are well pleasing to him: and they that love him, shall be filled with his law.They that feare our Lord, wil seeke after the thinges that are wel pleasing to him: and they that loue him, shal be filled with his law.✦Qui timent Dominum inquirent quæ beneplacita sunt ei, et qui diligunt eum replebuntur lege ipsius.
20They that fear our Lord, will prepare their hearts, and in his sight will sanctify their souls.They that feare our Lord, wil prepare their hartes, and in his sight wil sanctifie their soules.✦Qui timent Dominum præparabunt corda sua, et in conspectu illius sanctificabunt animas suas.
21They that fear our Lord, keep his commandments, and will have patience even until his visitation,They that feare our Lord, kepe his commandementes, and wil haue patience euen vntil his visitation,✦Qui timent Dominum custodiunt mandata illius, et patientiam habebunt usque ad inspectionem illius,
22saying: If we do not penance, we shall fall into the hands of our Lord, and not into the hands of men.saying: If we doe not penance, we shal fal into the handes of our Lord, and not into the handes of men.✦dicentes : Si pœnitentiam non egerimus, incidemus in manus Domini, et non in manus hominum.
23For according to his greatness, so also his mercy is with him.For according to his greatnes, so also his mercie is with him.✦Secundum enim magnitudinem ipsius, sic et misericordia illius cum ipso est.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.