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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13312	The ready path to the pleasant pasture of delitesome and eternall paradyse so called, bicause herein is declared how, and by what meanes, we shall easily obtayne the surprising pleasures of heauenly felicitie.	I. T. fl. 1570.; J. T.	1570 (1570)	STC 23621.5; ESTC S2915	39,568	120

this maner Our father and so forth But they which contemne prayer will neyther alwayes pray which Christ commaundeth nor vse the forme of prayer which Christ prescribeth nor leaue the lewdenesse which God abhorreth How therefore can they be any thing else but trées without fruite clouds without water rotten rootes without life barren grounde without corne ●●●les without curnels and vnprofitable barke without sappe or sauour For like as the vine braunch can bring forth no fruite vnlesse it remaine still in the vine euen so we can bring forth no goodnesse vnlesse we abide in Christ And how is it possible that they which heare Christ commaunde and will not obey that heare the shepchearde of their soules cal and will not follow that heare the sauiour of the worlde counsell them for there safetie helth and welfeare and will not attende that they shoulde receyue any commoditie ioy solace or comforte to refreshe their lingring and languishing soules almost or else altogither pined awaye for lacke of good nourishement That God respecteth them that call vpon him and reiecteth the contrarie wyth the discommodities thereof The tenth Chapter EVerye good and perfite gift commeth from aboue from the father of light who bestoweth his heauenly treasure wythout sparing restraint vpon all them that with continuall and humble and hartie request shall desire in the name of Iesus Christ hys grace fauour and euerlasting goodnesse But from such as before Gods goodnesse preferre there foolishe fantasies and séeke rather to please themselues in worldly delites then to pleasure themselues with the worde of lyfe he worthily taketh away his grace forsaketh them vtterlye leaueth them destitute wil no more sée vnto them in so much that through his absence and departure there miserable minde is ouerwhelmed with pernicious errours their senses darkned their vnderstanding obscured their reason oppressed their wyll imprisoned their hartes encombred their heades enraged their deuises ouerturned their purposes disapoynted their endeuors hindred their intentes disordred their trouble augmented their anguish exasperate their sorrowe doubled their griefe more bitterly sharpned their strength banished their life almost deuoured then spirites scattered their dolours ro●●ewed their wyt wasted their wisdome confounded their learning subuerted their policy disturbed their counselles abolished their bodies weakened their soules endaungered their thoughts defiled their fayth poluted their pietie defaced their rage vnbrideled their furie enflamed their wrath incensed and all vicious and detestable impietie slaunder and vylanie beyonde measure encreased For the corruption of our mortall fraile and inconstaunt nature is readie without reason to reuenge iniurie vnlesse religion doe restraine it The raging stormes of our fleshly mindes are woont to burst out into daungerous attempts vnlesse the holesome counsell of the sacred scriptures be receiued The waton will of a waywarde vessell of iniquitie maye lightly be tossed into the perilous floudes of yrefull indignation and daylie displeasure vnlesse it sayle in the safe ship and vnbroken Barcke of Gods infinite grace and mercy The olde and festering wounde of cruell hate and horrible easie will as it is woonted eate vp and consume the sounde partes of pacience vnlesse it be salued with the swéete Oyle of Gods holy spirite the filthie rust of popish ignoraunce will disgrace and deface the truth of sincere religion vnlesse it be scoured awaye with the light of the gracious gospell the deadly dregges of humane traditions will daungerously corrupt the vertuous medicine of ecclesiasticall doctrine vnlesse by the good aduise of some carefull and skilfull Phisitian they be remoued and cast out the contagious infection of noysome and vnhelthfull humore will in the minde of many men be causes of most grieuous and bitter sicknesse vnlesse they by the circumspect consideration and diligent aduise of some godlye learned and well instructed christian be auoyded purged and wisely displaced the pestilent inuasion of the créeping cancer of humane confidence wyll maliciously infect the whole bodye of the apparent and visible church of Christ vnlesse the playster of Gods direction be fitly applied to the contynuall motions of mans ●●●nesse and briefly godlynesse and all goodnesse will suffer most lamentable shipwrack in the troublesome waues and surging seas of vayne fantasies through the blustring windes and terrible tempestes of deuilishe desires and raging appetites vnlesse Christ rise vp and commaunde the waters to be still the tempestes to cease the windes to be calme the weather to be cléere and the ship to be safe Seing therefore that such is the estate of men which estéeme not neyther regarde the goodnesse of God that of themselues they can not helpe themselues nor by other meanes be preserued in safetie bicause nothyng can succour him whome God forsaketh seing that nothing procéedeth out of the hart of man vnlesse it be sauced with his mercy grace and bountie but it is abhominable and wicked before the face of almightie God seing that the ffincking wéedes and noysome darnell of vices wickednesse and vngodlynesse doe burst out sodainely and in a moment when the séede of Gods holye worde is not sowed in the hart of man and watred with the swéete showres of heauenly mercie seing that when God doth not extende his power grace and fauour nothing is pleasaunt fruitfull or acceptable but al things are ordered with vnruly rage with bloudy beastlynesse with disordered confusion and horrible tempest of wicked and witlesse abhomination and againe seing that they which resist the faithful exercise of prayer can not ●e directed by the finger hand or spirite of God bicause they are not Gods children because they despise his cōmaundements counsell bicause they refuse to heare his voyce when he calleth them to continuall prayer and earnest repentaunce of their former liues it must néedes folowe that they are vnfruitefull trées that is rotten stockes that bring forth no good and pleasaunt fruite but withered and infectious leaues impoysoned with venimous and filthie contagion and therfore shall be cast into hell fyre and condemned to eternall bitter and most horrible plagues and punishmentes For nowe the axe is layde to the roote of the trée and euerye trée that bringeth not forth good fruite shall be cut downe and cast into the fyre What vertues they be voyde of that pray not The .xi. Chapter MOreouer they lacke fayth hope and constant trust in the most precious bloude of our sauioure Iesus Christ and therefore are in desperate estate For Christ saith No man commeth to my father but by me meaning that vnlesse they put off their owne corruption and shake off their sinful hypocrisie cut away cleane from them the confidence in themselues or of other Idols vnlesse they confesse themselues to be of themselues wicked disceitful weake vnable mischieuous and damnable creatures and surely beléeue that Christ came from his throne in heauen and tooke the nature of man vpon him to worke their righteousnesse to appease his fathers wrath which was enflamed against all sinful vngodly people to deliuer them