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A16573	The complaynt of veritie, made by Iohn Bradford. An exhortacion of Mathewe Rogers, vnto his children. The complaynt of Raufe Allerton and others, being prisoners in Lolers tower, & wrytten with their bloud, how god was their comforte. A songe of Caine and Abell. The saieng of maister Houper, that he wrote the night before he suffered, vppon a wall with a cole, in the newe In, at Gloceter, and his saiyng at his deathe	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Rogers, Matthew. Instruction of a father to his children.; Allerton, Ralph. A lamentable complaynt of the afflicted, unto god our onely healper.; Allerton, Ralph. A briefe rehersal of parte of the aucthours trouble, entituled God is my comforte.; Allerton, Ralph. Songe of the poore prisoners in Lolers tower.; Hooper, John, d. 1555. Wordes of Maister Houper at his death.; Hooper, John, d. 1555. These are the wordes that Maister John Houper wrote on the wall with a cole, in the newe inne in Gloceter, the night before he suffered.	1559 (1559)	STC 3479; ESTC S112643	64,740	174

the Citie they which are of the Countrey Princes Prelates and people let all euery one repent depart frō that euill which he hath in hand and turne wholy to the Lord. And I do humbly beseech thy Maiestie O glorious Lord Iesus which didst come to blesse Israel turning euery one of them from their sinnes to worke nowe by thy Spirit in our hearts the same sound repentance which thy Holinesse did preach to men when thou saydest Repent for the Kingdome of God is at hand This work in vs O gracious God our Sauior Amen And now Reader I leaue thee to the reading and practising of that repentance which Bradford here teacheth FINIS To the Christian Reader Iohn Bradford wisheth the true knowledge and peace of Iesus Christ our alone and sufficient Sauiour GReat and heauy is Gods anger against vs as the most grieuous plague of the death of our late King a Prince of all that euer was sithen Christs assension into heauen in any Region peerelesse now fallen vpon vs doeth prognosticate For when Gods iudgement hath begunne with his Childe this our deare darling let other men thinke as they can I surely cannot bee perswaded otherwise but that a grieuous and bitter cuppe of Gods vengeance is ready to bee powred out for vs English men to drinke of The whelpe God hath beaten to fray the bandogge Iudgement is begunne at Gods house In Gods mercie to him-wards he is taken away that his eyes should not see the miseries which we shall feele He was too good to tary with vs so wicked so froward so peruers so obstinate so malicious so hipocritical so couetous vnclean vntrue proud and carnall a generation I will not goe about to paynt vs out in our colours All the world which neuer sawe England by hearesay seeth England God by his plagues and vengeance I feare me will paynt vs out point vs out ▪ We haue so mocked with him and his Gospell that we shall feele it is no bourding with him Of long time we haue couered our couetousnesse and carnality vnder the cloake of his Gospell so that all men shall see vs to our shame when he shall take his Gospell away and giue it to a people that will bring foorth the fruites of it then shall we appeare as we be To let his Gospell tarry with vs he cannot for we despise it contemne it are glutted with it We disdaine his Manna it is but a vile meate thinke we We would be agayne in Egypt and sit by the greasie fleshpottes to eate agayne our garlike onyons and leekes Sithens Gods Gospell came amongst vs we say nowe we had neuer plentie therefore againe let vs goe and worship the Queene of heauen Children beginne to gather stickes the fathers kindle the fire and the women make the cakes to offer to the Queene of heauen and to prouoke the Lord to anger The earth can not abide nowe the words and Sermons of Amos. The cause of all rebellion is Amos and his preaching It is Paul and his fellowes that make all out of order Summa the Gospell is nowe ●antonpripsica and catharoa tou eobou The outcast and curse of the Realme and ●o are the Preachers therefore out of the doores with them So that I say God ●annot let his Gospell tarrie with vs but must needes take it away to doe vs some pleasure therein for so shall we thinke for ● time as the Sodomitanes thought when ●ot departed from them as the old world ●hought when Noe crept into his Arke as ●he Ierusolomitanes thought when the A●ostles went thence to Peltis Then were ●hey mery then was al pastime When Mo●es was absent then went they to eating drinking and rose againe to play Then was ●ll peace all was well nothing amisse But ●las suddenly came the flood and drowned ●hem Gods wrath waxed hotte against them Then was weale away mourning and woe then was crying out wringing o● handes renting of clothes sobbing and sighing for the miseries fallen out of the which they could not scape But Oh ye● mourners criers out ye renters of clothes why mourne ye what is the cause of your miserie The Gospell is gone Gods word is little preached you are not disquieted with it Noe troubleth you not Lot is departed the Apostles are gone What now is the cause of these your miseries Will you at the length confesse it is your sinnes Nay nowe it is too late God called vpon you and you would not heare him therefore yell and crye out nowe for he will not heare you You bowed your eares from hearing of Gods law therefore your praier is execrable But to come againe to vs English men I feare me I say for our vnthankfulnes sake for our impietie and wickednesse as God hath taken away our King so will he take away his Gospell yea so we would haue it then should all be well thinke many Well if he take that away for a time perchaunce we shal be quiet but at length we shall feele the want to our woe at length he will haue at vs as at Sodome at Ierusalem and other places And now hee beginneth to brew such a brewing wherein one of vs is like to ●estroy an other and so make an open ●appe for forraine enemies to deuoure vs ●nd destroy vs. The father is against the ●nne the brother against the brother and ●orde with what conscience O bee thou ●ercifull vnto vs and in thine anger remember thy mercie suffer thy selfe to be ●treated be reconciled vnto vs nay recon●ile vs vnto thee O thou God of iustice ●udge iustly O thou sonne of God which ●amest to destroy the woorkes of Sathan ●estroy his furours now smoaking and almost set on fire in this Realme Wee haue ●nned we haue sinned and therefore art ●hou angrie O be not angrie for euer Giue ●s peace peace peace in the Lord set vs to worke against sinne against Sathan against our carnall desires and giue vs the victorie ●his way This victorie we obtaine by faith This faith is not without repentaunce as her Gentleman Vsher before her Before her I say in discerning true faith from false faith lip-faith Englishmens faith for else it springs out of true faith This Vsher then Repentance if we truely possessed we should bee certaine of true faith and so assured of the victorie ouer death hell and Sathan His woorkes then which hee hath stirred vp would quaile God would restore vs politique peace right should be right haue right Gods Gospell should tarrie with vs Religion should be cherished Superstition suppressed and so we yet something happie notwithstanding the great losse of our most gratious Liege soueraigne Lord. All these would come to passe you see if the Gentleman Vsher I speake of I meane Repentance were at Inne with vs. As if he be absent we may be certaine that Ladie Faith is absent Wherefore we can not but be vanquished of the world the flesh and

in him should ●ot perish but haue euerlasting life Loe ●r hee saith not that some might haue life ●ut all sayth he And what all All y t loue ●im with all their hearts all y t haue liued a ●odly life Nay all that beléeue in him Al●hough thou hast liued a most wicked hor●ible life if now thou beléeue in him thou ●halt be saued Is not this swéet geare Againe sayth Christ Come vnto me all ●ee that labour and are laden and I will re●esh you Let vs a litle looke on this letter Come vnto me Who should come Lords Priests Holy men Monkes Friers Yea ●oblers Tinkers whores théeues mur●herers also if they lament their sinnes Come vnto me sayth he all ye that labour ●nd are laden that is which are afrayd of ●our sinnes And what wilt thou do Lord And I wil refresh you sayth he O what a thing is this And I will re●esh you Wot you who spake this Hée ●hat neuer told lye He is the trueth there ●as neuer guile found in his mouth and ●ow wil he be vntrue to thée good brother ●hich art sorie for thy grieuous sinnes No ●rsooth heauen and earth shal passe and pe●ish but his word shall neuer fayle Saint Paul sayth God would haue al men saued Loe he excepteth none And to Titus The grace of God bringeth saluation to all men As from Adam al haue receiued sinne to damnation so by Christ all haue grace offered to saluation if they reiect not the same I speake not now of Infants I say nor I néed not to enter into the matter of Predestination In preaching of repentance I would gather where I could with Christ As surely as I liue sayth God I wil not the death of a sinner Art thou a sinner Yea. Loe God sweareth hée will not thy death How canst thou now perish Consider with thy selfe what profite thou shouldest haue to beléeue this to bee true to others if not to thy selfe also Sathan doth so Rather consider with Peter that the promise of saluation perteineth not onely to them which are nie that is to such as are fallen a little but also to all to whō the Lord hath called be they neuer so farre off Loe now by mee the Lord calleth thée thou man thou woman that art very farre off The promise therefore pertayneth to thée néeds must thou be saued except thou with Sathan say God is false And yet if thou doe so God is faithfull and can not denie himselfe as thou shalt féele by his plagues in hell for so dishonouring God to thinke that hée is not true Will hée bée found false now The matter hangeth not on thy worthines but it hangeth on Gods trueth Clap hold on it and I warrant thée Christ is the propitiation for our sins yea for the sinnes of the whole world beléeue this man I know thou beléeuest it say therefore in thy heart still Domine audage mihi fidem Lord encrease my fayth Lord helpe my vnbeleefe Blessed are they which sée not by reason this geare but yet beléeue Hope man past all hope as Abraham did And thus much for a taste of these promises which are euery where not onely in the new Testament but also in the old Reade the last end of Leuiticus 26. The Prophet Esay 30. Where hee saith God tarrieth looking for thee to shew thee mercie Also the 40. and so foorth to the 60. Reade also y e 2. Reg. 24. Psa 33. Ioel. 2. c. Howbeit if this geare will not serue i● yet thou féelest no faith no certaine perswasion of Gods loue then vnto prayer and diligent considering of the frée and vniuersall promises of the Gospell Thirdly set before thée those benefits which God hath to foregiuen thée and presently giueth thée Consider how hee hath made thée a man or a woman which might haue made thée a Toade or a Dog And why did hée this Verily because he loued thée And trowest thou that if hee loued thée when thou wast not to make thée such a one as he most graciously hath made thée will he not now loue thée béeing his handy worke Doth he hate any thing that he made Is there vnablenesse with him Doth he loue for a day and so farewell No forsooth he loueth to the end his mercie endureth for euer Say therefore with Iob Operi manuum tuarum porrige dexteram that is To the worke of thy hands put thy helping hand Againe hath hée not made thée a Christian man or woman where if hee would hée might haue made thée a Turke or Paynim This thou knowest hee did of loue And doost thou thinke his loue is lessened if thou lament thy sinne Is his hand shortened for helping thee Can a woman forget the child of her wombe And though shee should doe it yet will not I forget thée sayth the Lord. He hath giuen thée lyms to sée heare goe c. He hath giuen thée wit reason discretion c. Hee hath long spared thée and borne with thée when thou neuer purposedst to repent and now thou repenting will hee not giue thee mercie Wherefore doth hee graunt thée to liue at this present to heare him to speake this and mee to speake this but of loue to vs all Oh therefore let vs pray him that he would adde to this that wee might beléeue these loue tokens that hee loueth vs and indéed hee wil doe it Lord open our eyes in thy gifts to sée thy gracious goodnesse Amen But to tarie in this I will not Let euery man consider Gods benefites past and present publike and priuate spirituall and corporal to the confirming of his faith concerning the promises of the Gospell for the pardon of his sinnes I wil now go about to shew you a fourth meane to confirme your faith in this geare euen by examples Of these there are in the Scriptures very many as also dayly experience doth diuersly teach the same if wee were diligent to obserue things accordingly wherefore I will bee more briefe héerein hauing respect to time which stealeth fast away Adam in Paradise transgressed grieuously as the painfull punishment which we all as yet doe féele prooueth if nothing else Though by reason of his sinne he displeased God sore and ran away from God for hée would haue hid himselfe yea hée would haue made GOD the causer of his sinne in that he gaue him such a mate so farre was he from asking mercie yet all this notwithstanding God turned his fierce wrath neither vpon him nor Eue which also required not mercie but vpon the Serpent Sathan promising vnto them a séed Iesus Christ by whom they at the length should be deliuered In tokē whereof though they were cast out of Paradise for their nurture to serue in sorrow which would not serue in ioy yet hee made them apparell to couer their bodies a visible Sacrament and token of his inuisible loue and grace concerning their soules If God was so mercifull to Adam which so sore

by our eies by our nose by our taste and by our handling also And therefore the Sacrament full well may bee called séeable sensible tasteable and touchable words As therefore when many windowes be opened in an house the more light may come in then when ●here is but one opened euen so by the perception of the Sacraments a Christian mans conscience hath more helpe to receiue Christ then simply by the woord preached heard or meditated And therefore mee thinketh the Apostle full well calleth the Sacraments obsignations or sealings of Gods promise Read Rom. the 4. of Circumcision And thus much for the answere to the obiection aforesayd Now to returne from whence wée came namely to the consideration of the second thing what the Sacrament is I haue told you that it is not simply bread and wine but rather Christs body so called of Christ and so to be called and estéemed of vs ▪ But héere let vs marke what body and what blood Christ called it The Papists still babble This is my body This is my blood But what body it is what blood it is they shew not Looke therefore my dearely beloued on Chr●sts owne words and you shal see that Christ calleth it his body broken and his blood shedde Marke I say that Christ calleth it his body which is broken his blood which is shedde presently and not which was broken or shall bee broken which was shedde or shall be shedde as the Greeke Texts doe plainely shew thereby teaching vs that as God would haue the Passeouer called not which was the Passeouer or which shall be the Passeouer but plainely the Passeouer to the end that in the vse of it the passing ouer of the striking Angell should be set before their eyes as present so in the celebration of the Lords Supper the very Passion of Christ should be as present beholden with the eies of faith For which end Christ our Sauiour did specially institute this Supper saying Doe ye this in remembrance of mee or as Paul sayth Shew you the Lords death till hee come The Supper of the Lord then is not simply Christs body and blood but Christs body broken and his bloud shed Wherefore broken Wherefore shedde Forsooth that teacheth Christ himselfe saying Broken for you Shed for your sinnes and for the sinnes of many Héere now then wee haue occasion in the vse of the Sacrament to call to mind the greatnesse and grieuousnesse of sinne which could not be taken away by any other meanes then by the shedding of the most precious blood and breaking of the most pure body of the onely begotten sonne of GOD Iesus Christ by whom all things were made all things are ruled and gouerned c. Who considering this geare shall not bee touched to repent Who in receite of this Sacrament thinking that Christ saith to him Take eate this is my body which is broken for thee This is my blood which is shedde for thy sinnes Can but tremble at the grieuousnesse of his sinnes for the which such a price was payd If there were no plague at all else to admonish man of sinne how grieuous a thing it is in Gods sight surely that one were enough But alas how are our hearts bewitched through Sathans subtilties and the custome of sinne that wee make sinne a thing of nothing God open our eyes in time and giue vs repentance which we sée this Sacrament doth as it were enforce vs vnto in the reuerence and true vse of the same Againe in hearing that this which wee take and eate is Christs body broken for our sinnes and his bloud shedde for our iniquities wée are occasioned to call to mind the infinite greatnes of Gods mercie and trueth and of Christs loue towards vs. For what a mercie is this that God would for man béeing lost through his wilfull sinnes be content yea desirous to giue his owne onely Sonne The Image of his substance the brightnesse of his glorie béeing in his owne bosome to bée made man for vs that wee men by him might be as it were made Gods What a mercie is this that GOD the Father should so tender vs that hee would make this his Sonne béeing equall with him in diuinitie a mortall man for vs that wée might be made immortall by him What a kindnesse is this that the almightie Lord should send to vs his enemies his deare darling to bee made poore that wee by him might be made rich What bowels of compassion was this that the omnipotent Creator of Heauen and earth would deliuer his owne onely beloued Sonne for vs creatures to be not onely flesh of our flesh and bone of our bones that wee might by him through the holy Ghost be made one with him and so with the Father by communicating the merits of his flesh that is righteousnesse holinesse innocencie and immortalitie but also to be a slaine Sacrifice for our sinnes to satisfie his iustice to conuert or turne death into life our sinne into righteousnesse hell into Heauen miserie into felicitie for vs What a mercie is this that GOD will rayse vp this his sonne Christ not onely to iustifie and regenerate vs but also in his person to demonstrate vnto vs our state which we shall haue for in his comming we shall be like vnto him Oh wonderfull mercie of God which would assume this his Christ euen in humane body into the heauens to take and keepe there possession for vs to leade our captiuitie captiue to appeare before him alwaies praying for vs to make the throne of Iustice a throne of mercy the seat of glory a seat of grace so that with boldnesse we may come and appeare before God to aske and find grace in time conuenient Againe what a veritie and constant trueth in God is this that he would according to his promise made first to Adam and so to Abraham and others in his time accomplish it by sending his sonne so graciously Who would doubt hereafter of any thing that he hath promised And as for Christs loue oh whose heart can bee able to thinke of it any thing as it deserueth He being God would become man hée being rich would become poore he being Lord of all the world became a seruant to vs all hée beeing immortall would become mortall miserable and taste of all Gods curses yea euen of hell it selfe for vs. His blood was nothing too deare his life hee nothing considered to bring vs from death to life But this his loue néedeth more heartie weighing then many words speaking and therefore I omit and leaue it to your considerations So that in the receiuing of this Supper as I would you would tremble at Gods wrath for sinne so would I haue you to couple to that terrour and feare true faith by which ye might be assuredly perswaded of Gods mercie towards you and Christs loue though all things else preached the contrary Doe euery of you surely thinke when you heare these words Take eate this

IOHN BRADEFORD The complaynt of Veritie made by Iohn Bradford An exhortacion of Mathewe Rogers vnto his children The complaynt of Raufe Al●erton and others being prisoners in Lolers tower wryten with their bloud how god was their comforte ¶ A songe of Caine and Abell The saieng of maister Houper that he wrote the night before he suffered vppon a wall with a cole in the newe In at Gloceter and his saiyng at his deathe ANNO DOMINI 1559. ❧ The complaint of Veritie O Heauen O earth to thee I cal To witnes what I saye whych am causelesse in England thrall and put to great decay Veritie of all thinges the light I am that thus do mourne Sent from God to teache them right whiche in this world be borne And that of me none might it dout ●heron so euer I preache I haue for me the word throughout ●s Christes Gospell doth teache This truthe to Englande haue I taught with trauel and with paine And for my hyre now am I sought ●ruelly to be slaine I that from bondage dyd the shield whiche was before opprest ●m now by the as captiue held ●or prechyng to the best From death to life I did thee bring that thou might liue for aye And now my life for wel doing to death thou seekest a pray was there euer age so cruell that thus coulde me rewarde So soone to cast into exile whome they did once regarde what vnrighteousnes haue ye founde on me whome thus ye spite Let them speake that wold me cōfound by reason and by write I seke without vnfained clokes to mayntayne that is right But falsitie with her painted lokes wyll not abyde that syght O false time of iniquitie O season most vniust where exiled is Veritie and cast downe to the dust what though false Iudges doe me dam as Susan was most chaste yet by a Daniell sure I am to be absolued at the laste The Lord send me a iudge vpright to listen to my cause Then dout I not to put to flight those that nowe lye and glose Now whether shall I for remedy seeke that I may it fynde Thou Lord direct my steppes ready to some that will me frende The clergy say I am heresy with me they fyght apace For fashed blindes them so wilfully they haue no better grace Learned men which did me defend doe now their iudgement turne For liuynges sake they do intend lyke wandering starres to runne The lawiers say they could not thriue since Scripture came in place Their vauntage is whē men do striue and not by truth and peace The gentlemen whiche once me had ●n praise and eke in price Now say for them I am to sad and would haue them be wise The Marchaunt man saith he must lyue and cannot with me gaine But all to riches his mind doth giue with much daunger and paine Wemen say they must nedes obey thir husbandes when they lyst Therfore in them I may not say to haue anye greate trust The common sort vnlearned be to them I may not leane They knowe not by deuinitie my cause for to maintaine Thus haue all persons som pretence from me quite to decline And am put to my owne defence to keepe my selfe from ruyne yet in this may I glory plaine that though with fewe I stand I am of power and strength certaine more then all my foes band For God so hath indued my tonge with wysdome and with grace That I can shew ther doings wrong which dare stand face to face Therfore mine enemies vilanously put me from mens hearinges Least I should most manifestly tell them of their leasynges For this they would out of mennes eyes Gods worde to kepe so hie That where they preache boldly lyes none might agaynst them replye Al to maintaine their pompe pryde their belly slouth and ease They force me in thraldome to bide for that I them displease Ah England what is the trespas that against god thou hast done That thou wouldst loue darkenes alas more then light of the Sunne Ah I le of moste nobilitie why art thou become bande To that proude harlots falsitie the ruine of all the lande Woo that I must that day beholde whiche came to make the free I would I had thee neuer tolde ●he trueth in eache degree Then were thy synne muche more les whiche knowledge maketh great And of the same mightst seeke redres to turne away the threate This dampnacion God doth say the father of all right That light is come nowe of the day yet in darkenes men more delight Thus do I wepe w t aboundāt teares with sighes and eke with grones Ah that men wil not geue their eares vnto my lawfull mones Finis quod Iohn Bradforde ¶ The instruction of a Father to his Children which he wrote a few dayes before his burnynge GIue eare my Chyldren to my wordes Whome God hathe dearelye bought Lay vp his lawes within your hertes and print them in your thought For I your father haue foresene the frayle and fylthy way Which flesh bloud would folow faine euen to their owne decay For all and euery liuyng beast their cribbe do knowe full well But Adams heyres aboue the rest are ready to rebell And all the creatures of the earth full well do kepe their way But Adams heires euē frō their birth are apt to goe astray For earth and ashes is his strength his glory and his gayne And into ashes at the length he shall returne againe For fleshe doth florishe lyke a floure and growe vp like a grasse And is consumed in an houre as it is come to passe For I the ymage of your yeares your treasure and your trust Am nowe dyeng before your face and shal consume to dust For as you see your Fathers fleshe consumed into clay Euen so shall ye my children deare consume and weare away The sun the moone eke the stars that serue the day and night The earth and euery earthly thinge shall be consumed quyte And al the worship that is wrought that hath bene heard or sene Shal clean cōsume turne to nought as it had neuer bene Therfore see that ye folowe me your father and your frende And enter into the same lande which neuer shall haue ende I leaue you here a little booke for you to looke vpon That you may see your fathers face when he is dead and gon Who for the hope of heauenly thinges while he did here remayne Gaue ouer all his golden yeares in prisone and in payne where I among mine iron bandes inclosed in the darke A fewe dayes before my death did dedicate this warke And in example of your youth to whome I wishe all good I preche you here a perfect trouth and seale it with my bloud To you mine heires of erthly things wich I do leaue behinde That you may reade vnderstande and keepe it in your minde That as ye haue bene heires of that whiche once shall weare a way Euen so ye

Naboth brought their bloud to the ground for dogs to eate yea their children were hanged vp and slaine for this geare but wee continue in malice enuie and murther as though wee were able to wage warre with the Lord. Dauids adulterie with Bethsabe was visited on y e child borne on Dauids daughter defiled by her brother and on his children one slaying another his wiues defiled by his owne sonne and himselfe driuen out of his Realme in his old age and otherwise also although he most heartily repented his sinne But wee are more déere vnto God then Dauid which yet was a man after Gods owne heart or else we could not but tremble and begin to repent The rich gluttons gay paunch filling what did it it brought him to hell and haue we a placcard that God will doe nothing to vs Achans subtill theft prouoked Gods anger against all Israel and our subtiltie yea open extortion is so fine and politike that God can not espie it Gehezi his couetousnesse brought it not the Leprosie vpon him and on all his séed Iudas also hanged himselfe But the couetousnesse of England is of another cloth colour Well if it were so the same Tallor will cut it accordingly Anania and Saphira by lying linked to them sudden death but ours now prolongeth our life the longer to last in eternall death The false witnes of the two Iudges against Susanna lighted on their own pates and so will ours doe at length But what goe I about to auouch ancient examples where dayly experience doth teach The Sweate the other yéere the stormes the Winter following will vs to weigh them in the same balances The hanging and killing of men themselues which are alas too rife in all places require vs to register thē in the same roules At the least in Children Infants and such like which yet cannot vtter sinne by word or déed wée sée Gods anger against sinne in punishing them by sicknesse death mishappe or otherwise so plainly that we cannot but grone and grunt againe in that we haue gushed out this geare more aboundantly in word and déed And héere with me a little looke on Gods anger yet so fresh that we cannot but smel it although wee stoppe our noses neuer so much I pray God we smell it not more fresh hereafter I meane it forsooth for I know you looke for it in our déere late Soueraigne Lord the Kings Maiestie You al know he was but a Child in yéeres defiled he was not with notorious offences Defiled quoth he nay rather adorned with so many good gifts and wonderfull qualities as neuer Prince was from the beginning of the world Should I speake of his wisedome of his ripenesse in iudgement of his learning of his godly zeale heroical heart fatherly care for his Commons nurcely solicitude for Religion c. Nay so many things are to bee spoken in commendation of Gods excéeding graces in this Child that as Salust writeth of Carthage I had rather speake nothing then too litle in that too much is too little This gift God gaue vnto vs English men before all Nations vnder the Sunne and that of his excéeding loue towards vs. But alas and welaway for our vnthankefulnes sake for our sinnes sake for our carnalitie and prophane liuing Gods anger hath touched not onely the body but also the mind of our King by a long sicknesse and at length hath taken him away by death death cruell death fearefull death O if Gods iudgement be begun on him which as he was the chiefest so I thinke the holyest and godlyest in the Realme of England alas what will it be on vs whose sinnes are ouergrowne so our heads that they are climed vp into heauē I pray yo● my good brethren know that Gods anger for our sin towards vs cannot but be great yea too fell in that we sée it was so great that our good King could not beare it What followed to Iewrie after the death of Iosias God saue England and giue vs repentance my heart will not suffer me to tarie longer héerein I trow this will thrust out some teares of repentance If therefore to prayer for Gods feare the tooting in Gods glasse and the tag thereto will not burst open thy blockish heart yet I trow the tossing to and fro of these examples and specially of our late King and this troublesome time will tumble some teares out of thine heart if thou still pray for Gods spirit accordingly For who art thou thinke alwayes with thy selfe that GOD should spare thée more then them whose examples thou hast heard What friends hast thou Were not of these Kings Prophets Apostles learned and come of holy stocks I deceiue my selfe thinke thou with thy selfe if I beléeue that God béeing the same God that he was wil spare me whose wickednesse is no lesse but much more then some of theirs Hee hateth sinne now as much as euer hee did The longer hee spareth the greater vengeance will fall the déeper hee draweth his Bow the sorer will the shaft pierce But if yet thy heart be so hardened that all this geare will not mooue thée surely thou art in a very euill estate and remedie now I know none What said I none Know I none Yes there is one which is suresby as they say to serue if any thing will serue You looke to know what this is Forsooth the Passion and death of Iesus Christ You know the cause why Christ became man and suffered as he suffered was the sinnes of his people that he might saue them from the same Consider the greatnesse of the sore I meane sinne by the greatnes of the Surgion and the salue Who was the Surgion No Angell no Saint no Archangell no power no creature in heauen nor in earth but onely hée by whom all things were made all things are ruled also euen Gods owne deareling and onely beloued Sonne becomming man Oh what a great thing is this that could not be done by the Angelles Archangelles Potentates Powers or all the creatures of God without his owne Sonne who yet must néeds be thrust out of heauen as a man would say to take our nature and become man Heere haue yee the Surgion great was the cure that this mightie Lord tooke in hand Now what was the salue Forsooth déere geare and of many compositions I cannot recite all but rather must leaue it to your hearty considerations Thrée and thirtie yéeres was he curing our sore Hée sought it earnestly by fasting watching praying c. The same night that hee was betrayed I reade how busie he was about a plaister in the garden when he lying flat on the ground praying with teares and that of bloud not a few but so many as did flow downe on the ground againe crying on this sort Father sayth hée if it bee possible let this cup depart from me That is If it be possible that else the sinnes of mankind can be taken away graunt that it may be so

whom he loueth he loueth to the end So that now where aboundance of sinne hath beene in thee the more is the aboundance of grace But to what end Forsooth that as sinne hath raigned to death as thou séeest to the killing of Gods Sonne so now Grace must raigne to Life to the honouring of Gods Sonne who is now aliue and can not die any more So that they which by faith féele this cannot any more die to God but to sinne whereto they are dead and buried with Christ As Christ therefore liueth so doe they and that to God to righteousnesse and holinesse The life which they liue is In fide Filii Dei In the faith of the Sonne of God Whereby you sée that now I am slipt into that which I made the third part of penance namely newnesse of life which I could not so haue done if that it were a part of it selfe indéed as it is an effect or fruit of the second part that is of faith or trust in Gods mercie For he that beléeueth that is is certainely perswaded sinne to be such a thing that it is the cause of all miserie and of it selfe so greatly angereth God that in heauen nor in earth nothing could appease his wrath saue alonely the death and precious bloodshedding of the Sonne of GOD in whom is all the delight and pleasure of the Father hee I say that is perswaded thus of sinne the same cannot but in heart abhorre and quake to doe or say yea to thinke any thing willingly which Gods Law teacheth him to bee sinne Againe hee that beléeueth that is is certainely perswaded Gods loue to bée so much towards him that where through sinne he was lost and made a firebrand of hell the eternall father of mercy which is the omni-sufficient God néedeth nothing to vs or of any thing that we can doe to deliuer vs out of hell and to bring vs into heauen did send euen his owne most déere Sonne out of his bosome out of heauen into hell as a man would say to bring vs as I said from thence into his owne bosome and mercie wee béeing his very enemies hee I say that is thus perswaded of Gods loue towards him and of the price of his redemption by the deare bloud of the Lambe immaculate Iesus Christ the same man cannot but loue God againe and of loue doe that and heartily desire to doe better the which might please God Trow you that such a one knowing this geare by faith will willingly welter and wallow in his wilfull lusts pleasures and fantasies Will such a one as knoweth by faith Christ Iesus to haue giuen his bloud to wash him from his sinnes play the Sow to welter in his puddle of filthie sinne and vice againe Nay rather then he will be defiled againe by wilful sinning he will wash often the féet of his affections watching ouer the vice still sticking in him which as a spring continually sendeth out poyson enough to drowne and defile him if the swéete water of Christes passion in Gods sight did not wash it and his bloud satisfie the rigour of Gods iustice due for the same This bloud of Christ shed for our sinnes is so deare in the sight of him that beléeueth that he will abhorre in his heart to stampe it and tread it vnder his féete He knoweth now by his beléefe that it is too much that hitherto he hath set too little by it and is ashamed thereof Therefore for the residue of his life hée purposeth to take better héed to himselfe then before hee did Because hée séeeth by his faith the grieuousnesse of GODS anger the foulenesse of sinne the greatnesse of Gods mercie and of Christs loue towards him hée will now bee héedie to pray to GOD to giue him his grace accordingly that as with his eyes tongue hands féet c. hée hath displeased God doing his owne will euen so now with the same eyes tongue eares hands féete c. hee may displease his owne selfe and doe Gods will Willingly will he not doe that which might renew the death of the Sonne of God Hée knoweth he hath too much sinne vnwillingly in him so that thereto hee will not adde willing offences This willing and witting offending and sinning whosoeuer doth flatter himselfe therein doth euidently demonstrate and shew that hee neuer yet indéed tasted of Christ truely Hee was neuer truely perswaded or beléeued how foule a thing sinne is how grieuous a thing Gods anger is how ioyfull and precious a thing Gods mercie in Christ is how excéeding broad wide hie and déepe Christs loue is Perchance he can write prate talke and preach of this geare but yet he in part by faith neuer felt this geare For if hee did once féele this geare indéed then would he bée so farre from continuing in sinne willingly and wittingly that wholy and heartily hee would giue ouer himselfe to that which is contrary I meane anew to life renewing his youth euen as the Eagle doth For as we béeing in the seruitude of sin demonstrate our seruice by giuing ouer our members to the obeying of sinne from iniquitie to iniquitie euen so we béeing made frée from sinne by faith in Iesus Christ and endued with Gods spirit a spirit of libertie must néeds demonstrate this fréedome and libertie by giuing ouer our members to the obedience of the spirit by the which we are lead and guided from vertue to vertue and all kind of holines As the vnbeléeuers declare their vnbeléefe by the woorking of the euill spirit in them outwardly the fruits of the flesh euen so the beléeuers declare their faith by the working of Gods good spirit in them outwardly the fruits of the spirit For as the Deuill is not dead in those which are his but worketh still to their damnation so is not God dead in them which bee his but worketh still to their saluation The which working is not the cause of the one or the other béeing in any but onely a demonstration a signe a fruit of the same As the Apple is not the cause of the Apple tree but a fruit of it Thus then you sée briefly that newnes of life is not in déed a part of penance but a fruit of it a demonstration of the iustifying faith a signe of Gods good spirit possessing the heart of the penitent as the old life is a fruite of impenitencie a demonstration of a lip-faith or vnbeliefe a signe of Sathans spirit possessing the heart of the impenitent which all those be that bee not penitent For meane I know none He that is not penitent the same is impenitent hee that is not gouerned by Gods spirit the same is gouerned by Sathans spirit For all that bée Christians are gouerned with the spirit of Christ which spirit hath his fruits All other that bee not Christs are the Deuils Hee that gathereth not with Christ scattereth abroad Therefore dearely beloued I beséech you to consider this geare