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A16577	A frutefull treatise and ful of heauenly consolation against the feare of death Wherunto are annexed certeine sweet meditations of the kingdom of Christ, of life euerlasting, and of the blessed state & felicitie of the same. Gathered by that holy marter of God, Iohn Bradford.	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.	1564 (1564)	STC 3481; ESTC S106823	29,063	104

thy holy name being preserued alwaies frō y e councel of the vngodly from the way of the wicked from the seate of the scorneful to delite in thy lawe night and day to be made spiritual to haue the benefite of thy kingdome priest hode which be both spiritual preseruing thy people from y e tiranny of sinne Sathan althoughe in this life y ● permit their enemies to vexe thē to thy further glory their encrease in repentaunce and godlines which geue vnto mee and encrease in mee for thy holye names sake Amen ¶ Scriptures prouing Christes kingdome to be spiritual My kingdome is not of this worlde Thou hast geuen him power ouer all flesh that how many soeuer thou haste geuē vnto him he might geue to y e same euerlastinge life What is it any worldly policy no therefore it foloweth this is euerlastinge life y t they may know thee to be the only true God whom thou diddest sende Iesus Christ which sitteth on the right hande of god prayeth for vs. The rote of Iesse shal stande vp and y e gentils shal make their praiers vnto him c. By these two sentences we may see Christes kingdome priesthode to be spirituall and no polytike regimente He prayeth for vs to his father and so raygneth that he will be called vpon wyll heare vs satisfie vs keepe vs with his holy spirite as gods children for they are ledde by the spirite of God in their hartes he will write his law c. which benefits let vs loke for no corporal kingdome We are fellow heires with Christe If so be we do suffer with him we shalbe glorified with hym We are saued by hope For thy sake we are kylled al the day longe In this worlde you shal haue affliction Al y t wil liue godly in christ must suffer per secution And many places there be which teach vs y e the glory of Christes kingdome is no worldly dominion or power but a spiritual thing that we should be resuscitated haue a new an eternal life righteousnes glory euē such as Christ hath Besids this Paule telleth y t Antechrist shall beare rule in the Churche vntill Christ come to iudgement then shal he destroy his kingdōe So y t the true church of Christe shall not haue worldely dominion and kingedome but rather be persecuted especially towardes thence of the worlde as Peter telleth y t as there was before Christes cōming in y e church false prophets the regiment was with the aduersaries whiche beare the name of y e church vnder the whch they destroyed y e church so shal it be in the church after Christes tyme. There wilbe saith he many false teachers which wil deceane not a fewe or the fewer parte but many the greater part as now the Papistes haue doone almoste all Christendom Againe he sayth y t there will come mockers whych wyl make a mocke of religion so that the church cannot but be persecuted Daniel plainly sheweth y t the beastes that is the empires of y e world shalbe cast into y e fire when Christ shal come to iudgemēt so y t some wicked Empires shal continue vntil the laste day The true Church of Christe is carefull for inwarde beauty as it is writtē of the kings daughter wheras the papistical church nothinge passeth therof but altogether careth for externall geare So sayth our Papistes in England Come to the church do as other men do outwardly kept your conscience to your selues ¶ Scryptures prouinge that in Christes Church vppon earth there shalbe good and bad mingled vntil the day of iudgemēt AS it was in the dayes of Lot so shal it be in the cōming c. In y e night there shalbe two in one bed one shalbe taken c. Let them the tares amongest the Corne he meaneth grow together vntil the haruest The Harueste is the ende of the world then the sonne of man shal sende forth his angels they shal gather all offence geuers oute of his kingedome and those whiche worke wickednes So shal it go in the ende of the world the Angels shall goe forthe and seperate the euil from the righteous cast them into the fornace of fier By these sentences we may see y e Hypocrites shall be mingled w t the godly vntil the day of iudgement Whereas the Anabaptistes doe cite the Prophets who speaking of Christes kingedome vse often figures and similitudes of worldly Empires that by temporall visible thinges we may arise to a depe consideration of spirituall eternall thinges in christes king dome let vs learne so to doe and agayne lette vs knowe that the Ghospell is the exposition of the Prophetes and therefore those corporal metaphors in the Prophetes paynting forth the kingdome of Christ must be interpreted accordynge to the Ghospell which teacheth clerely Chrystes kingdome to bee a spirituall and no temporal thynge as before is shewed Moreouer the Prophets euen them selues doe playnely shewe Christes kingdome to be a spyrituall thinge Do the not Daniell saye that Christe shall be kylled And Esaye also doth not he saye that Christe shall geue hys lyfe for sinne So that we may see no affirmation of corporal dominion here on earthe in thys lyfe Besides this the Prophetes doe affirme also Christes kingdome to be eternall and therefore cannot be temporall Figures and Metaphors can bee no otherwise thē Allegorically vnderstanded I nede not to tel howe that the prophetes vse to speake of Chrystes kingdome that they doe not dyscerne the times of this life and of the life to come because Christes eternall kyngedome is begonne in spirite and fayth in thys lyfe and afterwarde endureth for euer Howe be it some tymes and often they do otherwyse plainly shewe that Chrystes kyngedome and Church shal suffer persecution in thys life as in the. 2. Psal and Psal 115. precious in the sight of the Lorde is the death of his saintes And Psalme 72. Esay 30. Daniel 12. ¶ That there is an euerlastynge life where it is what knowledge and vnderstanding therof may be had in thys life THat there is an euerlastyng lyfe none will deny but such as wyl deny God For if he be true and iuste or els he is not God then can there not bee but an eternal life That he hath both spoken it promysed it in Math 25. 1. Cor. 15. Hebre. 4. 11. 13. 1. Peter 1. it apereth els wher in very many places So that to deny an euerlasting life is to deny God to deny Christe and all that euer he did also to denye all pitie and religion to condempne of folyshnes all good men Martyrs Confessors Euangelistes Prophets Patriarkes Sūina the deniall of eternall lyfe is nothing els but a denyal of the immortality of the Soule and so a playne makyng of man nothyng better then beastes If it be so

shonide thinke I meane therby any other merits or meane to saluation then onely the merites and name of the lord Iesus but that I would the pore christian conscience which by baptisme is broght into gods church and made a member of the same thorow faith shoulde not for hys sinnes sake or for the want of anye thinge he hath not dispaire but rather should knowe that he is a member of Chrisses church mistical body therefore cannot but haue communion and felowship of both that is of Christ himselfe being the lord husband and heade thereof and of all that euer hath ben bee or shalbe mēbers of it in al the good things that euer they haue had haue or shal haue Stil doth the church pray for vs by Christes cōmaundement forgeue vs our sinnes leade vs not into temptation deliuer vs from euil yea Christ himself doth pray for vs being members of vys bodie as we vs in deede if that we beleue though it be neuer so litel God graūt this faith vnto vs al and increase it in vs. Amen Out of this church no Pope nor prelate can caste vs or excōmunicate vs in dede although exteriourly they segregate vs frō the societie of gods sainctes But enough of this As I woulde haue vs often to muse vpon the catholike Church or cōmuniū of saints wherof we may not doubte in what state so euer we be vnder payne of damnatiō being baptised in the name of the father the sonne and the holy Ghost so woulde I haue vs to meditate vpon the other artycles folowing that is remissiō of sinnes resurrection of the fleash life euerlasting It is an article of our faithe to beleue that is to be certayne y t our sinnes are pardoned therfore doubt not therof leste thou become an Infideil Though thou haue sinned neuer so sore yet nowe despaire not but be certayne that god is thy God that is that he forgeueth thee thy sinne Therfore as I said dout not thereof for in so doinge thou puttest a sallet on the heade of thy soule that the dew of gods grace can not in dede droppe into it but slippe by as faste as it droppeth Therefore without that sallet or soule nightecap bee bareheaded that is hope still in the mercy of the Lorde and so mercye shall compasse thee on euery side In like manner the article of the resurreiction of the flesh haue often in thy minde beinge assured by this that thy carcase and body shalbe raysed vp againe in the last day when the Lord shall come to iudgement and shalbe made incorruptable immortall glorious spiritual perfect light and euen lyke to the gloryous body of our Sauiour Iesu christ for hee is the firste fruytes of 〈◊〉 dead and as god is all in all so shal he be vnto thee in Christe Loke therfore vppon thine owne estate for as he is so shalt thou be As thou hast borne y e image of the earthly Adam so shalte thou beare the Image of the heauenly therfore glorifie thou nowe god both in soule and body Wayt and loke for this day of the lord with groning and sighing Gather together testimonies of this which I do omitte for times sake Laste of all haue often in thy minde life euerlasting wherunto thou art euen landinge Death is the hauen that caryeth thee vnto this lande where is all that can bee wished yea aboue all wishes and desires for in it wee shall see god face to face which thing now we can in no wise doe but muste couer our faces wyth Boyses Heltas tyll the face or foreparts of y e lorde be gone by Now must we loke on his backe partes beholding him in his worde and in his creatures in the face of Iesus Christe our mediatoure but then we shal se him face to face we shall knowe as we are knowen Therfore let vs often think on these thinges y t we may haue fayth lustely and cherefully to arriue at the happy hauen of death which you se is to be desired and not to bee dread to all those that are in Christ that is to suche as to beleue in deede which are discerned from those that onely saye they do beleue by dyeng tēporally that is by labouring to mortify thorow gods spirite the affections of the flesh not y t they should not be in thē but that they should not raigne in thē that is in theyr mortal bodies to geue euer them selues to serue sinne whose seruaunts we are not but are made sernauntes vnto righteousnesse being nowe vnder grace and not vnder the lawe and therfore hath god mercifully promised that sinne shal not raigne in vs The whych he continually graunte for his truth power mercies sake Amen A meditation A Meditatiō cōcerning y e kingdome of Christ that it is no corporall thing as the Iewes Anababtistes do faine to whō y e Papistes in maner assent makinge the church so glorious and gay a dame far vnlike to be christes Spouse who was here on earth in no such felicitie worldly glory as their church is They make more of the good wise then of the good men and therefore set forth to vs a strumpet for Christes spouse OPen mine eies deare lord to see thy kyngdome for it is spirituall and of carnall eies simply cannot be considered therfore lesse ought we to maruell to see it contempned and the children therof persecuted y e most part of men and specially y e great men of the world being carnall not spirituall althoughe by title manye bee called so Geue me thy light to see that thy kingdōe O christ is thy sitting on the right hande of thy father ours thy interpellation and mediation for vs also thy geuing of pardon forgeuenes of sinnes the holye sprite to thy church that is such as beleue in thee and cal vpō god the father throughe confidence in thee hereto thy sanctifyinge of of them that thou maist raise thē vp in y e laste daye to life glory euerlasting Graūt me to know y t for the atteining of al these bene fits which be the liberties priuilegies of thy kingedome thou haste ordeined y e ministery of thy gospel sacramentes thereby to cal bringe men to y e knowledge of thy father thee which is eternal life Graunt y t I may feele in my self liuely cōfortably y e efficacy and vertue of thy holy ghoste which is effectual by y e ministery word And lest afflictiōs shuld dismay me y e cōpany of euil mē mingled w t the godly ouerthrow me or offend me graunt y t I may not only know how y t thy church the true chyldren therof shal in this world vntil y e last day suffer persecution that gotes will be amongest the shepe vntil the day of iudgement but also y t I maye in affliction reioyce and glorifye