Spiritus est vicarius Christi in terra. The poore mans garden, wherein are flowers of the scriptures, and doctours, very necessarie and profitable for the simple and ignoraunt people to reade: / truely collected and diligently gathered together, by Iohn Northbrooke, minister and preacher of the worde of God. Seene and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queenes iniunctions..

¶ The scriptures are sufficient to d•…•…∣bate, and deside all doubte•…•… and controuersies.

THy woorde is a Lanterne vnto my feete,* 1.1 and a light vnto my pathes.

He sheweth his woorde vnto Iacob, his* 1.2 statutes and ordinaunces vnto Israell.

He hath not dealt so with euery nation,* 1.3 neither haue thei knowē his iudgemētes.

The woorde of God moste high, is the* 1.4 fountaine of wisedome, and the euerlastyng commaundemē∣tes, are an entraunce vnto her.

If thou bee the sonne of God, commaunde that these stones* 1.5 be made bread.

He aunswered and saied, it is written, man shall not liue* 1.6 by bread onely, but by euery worde that proceadeth out of the* 1.7 mouthe of God.

It is written again, thou shalt not tempt the lorde thy God.* 1.8

Auoide Satan, for it is written, thou shalte worshippe the* 1.9 Lorde thy God, and hym onely shalt thou serue.* 1.10

Goe ye and learne what this is, I will haue mercie, and not* 1.11 Sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentaunce.

Haue ye not read what Dauid did, when he was an hunge∣red,* 1.12 and thei that were with hym?

How he entered into the house of God, and eate the shewe* 1.13 bread, whiche was not lawfull for hym to eate. &c.* 1.14

Or haue ye not reade in the lawe, how on the Sabboth daie* 1.15 the priest in the Temple, brake the Sabboth, and are blame∣lesse.* 1.16

As Ionas was three daies and three nightes in the Wha∣les bellie: so shall the sonne of man bee three daies and three nightes in the harte of the earth.

O hypocrites, Esaias prophecied well of you, saiyng: This* 1.17 people draweth nere vnto me with their mouthe, and honou∣reth me with their lippes, but their harte is farre of from me.* 1.18

The wicked generation, and adulterous seketh a signe, and there shall no signe be giuen it, but the signe of the Prophete Ionas.

And concernyng the resurrection of the deade, haue ye not* 1.19

read what is spoken vnto you of God, saiyng.

I am the GOD of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the* 1.20 God of Iacob? God is not the god of the dead, but of the liuyng.* 1.21

Maister, whiche is the great commaundement in the lawe?* 1.22 Iesus saied to hym, thou shalte loue the Lorde thy God with* 1.23 all thyne harte. &c.* 1.24

Then the Pharisées came and asked hym if it were lawful* 1.25 for a man to put awaie his wife, and tempte hym.* 1.26

At the beginnyng of creation, God made them male and fe∣male.

For this cause shal man leaue his father and mother, and* 1.27 cleaue vnto his wife.* 1.28

Ought not Christe to haue suffered these thynges, and to* 1.29 enter into his glory?

And he began at Moises, and at all the Prophetes, and in∣terpreted* 1.30 vnto them in all the scriptures, the thinges whiche were written of hym.

Thei haue Moises and the prophetes: let them heare them.* 1.31

It is written, mine house is the house of praier, but ye haue* 1.32 made it a denne of théeues.

Is it not written in your lawe? I saied ye are Goddes.* 1.33

But this is that, whiche was spoken by the Prophete Ioel.* 1.34

And it shall bee in the laste daies, saieth God, I will powre* 1.35 out of my spirite vpon all fleshe. &c.

To hym also giue all the Prophetes witnesse, that through* 1.36 his name all that beleeue in hym, shall receiue remission of* 1.37 synnes.* 1.38

For, mightily he confuted publikely the Iewes with greate vehemencie, shewyng by the Scriptures, that Iesus was Christe.* 1.39

As it is written: There is none righteous, no not one.

There is none that vnderstandeth: there is none that see∣keth* 1.40 * 1.41 God. &c.

For, what saieth the scripture? Abraham beleued God, and* 1.42 it was compted to hym for righteousnes.

It was saied vnto her, the elder shall serue the yonger.* 1.43

As it is written, I haue loued Iacob, and haue hated Esau.* 1.44 * 1.45

For he saieth to Moises, I will haue mercie on him, to whō* 1.46 I will shewe mercie: and will haue compassion on hym, on* 1.47 whom I will haue compassion.

The weapons of our warfare are not carnall, but mightie* 1.48 through God, to cast downe holdes.

•…•…astyng downe the immaginations, and euery high thyng* 1.49 that is exalted againste the knowledge of God, and bryngyng into captiuitie euery thought, to the obedience of Christ.* 1.50

For, I haue receiued of the Lorde, that whiche I also haue deliuered vnto you, to witte, that the Lorde Iesus in the night that he was betraied, tooke bread. &c.

The whole scripture is giuen by inspiration of God, and is* 1.51 profitable to teache, to improue, to correcte, and to instructe in righteousnesse.

The worde of God is liuely, and mightie in operation, and* 1.52 sharper then any twoo edged sworde, and entreth through, euen vnto the diuidyng a sonder of the soule and the spirite, and of the ioyntes, and the marie, and is a discerner of the thoughtes, and the intentes of the harte.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Psal. 119. 105
• * 1.2

  Psal. 147. 20.
• * 1.3

  21.
• * 1.4

  wisedome 1. 5.
• * 1.5

  Matth. 4. 3.
• * 1.6

  4.
• * 1.7

  Deut. 8. 3.
• * 1.8

  Psalm. 92. 11.
• * 1.9

  10.
• * 1.10

  Deut 6. 13. and 10. 20.
• * 1.11

  Matth. 9. 13. Hosea. 6. 7.
• * 1.12

  Matth. 12. 3.
• * 1.13

  4.
• * 1.14

  1. Sam. 21. 6.
• * 1.15

  5.
• * 1.16

  Leuit. 8. 31. Exod. 29. 33. Nomb. 28. 9. Matth 12. 40. Ionas. 2. 8.
• * 1.17

  Matth. 15. 7. 8.
• * 1.18

  Esaie. 29. 12. Matth. 16. 4.
• * 1.19

  Matth. 22. 31.
• * 1.20

  32.
• * 1.21

  〈◊〉〈◊〉. 3. 6.
• * 1.22

  36.
• * 1.23

  Deut. 6. 5.
• * 1.24

  37.
• * 1.25

  Mark. 10. 2.
• * 1.26

  6.
• * 1.27

  Gene. 1. 27.
• * 1.28

  7.
• * 1.29

  Gen. 19. 4. Luke. 24. 26.
• * 1.30

  27.
• * 1.31

  Luk. 16. 29.
• * 1.32

  Luke. 19. 46. Icremy. 7. 1.
• * 1.33

  Iohn. 10. 34.
• * 1.34

  Psal. 82. 6.
• * 1.35

  Actes 2. 16. Ioel. 2. 28.
• * 1.36

  17.
• * 1.37

  Actes. 10. 43. Ierem. 31. 34.
• * 1.38

  Micah. 7. 11. Chap. 15. 9. Actes. 18. 28.
• * 1.39

  Rom. 3. 10.
• * 1.40

  11.
• * 1.41

  Psalme. 14. •…•…. Rom. 4. 3.
• * 1.42

  Gen. 15. 6. Rom. 9. 12.
• * 1.43

  Gene. 25. 23.
• * 1.44

  13.
• * 1.45

  Mala•…•…. •…•…. 2.
• * 1.46

  15.
• * 1.47

  Exod. 33. 19.
• * 1.48

  2. Cor. 10. 4.
• * 1.49

  5.
• * 1.50

  1. Cor. 11. 23.
• * 1.51

  2. Tim. 3. 16.
• * 1.52

  Hebre. 4.