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A08269	A theatre wherein be represented as wel the miseries & calamities that follow the voluptuous worldlings as also the greate ioyes and plesures which the faithfull do enioy. An argument both profitable and delectable, to all that sincerely loue the word of God. Deuised by S. Iohn van-der Noodt. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed.; Theatre oft Toon-neel. English	Noot, Jan van der, ca. 1538-ca. 1596.; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.; Roest, Theodore.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Rime. English. Selections.; Du Bellay, Joachim, 1525 (ca.)-1560. Visions. English. Selections.	1569 (1569)	STC 18602; ESTC S110162	92,217	282

Lord the rod and scepter of his dominion against the wicked in those dayes as he shall say Goe from me ye curssed into euerlasting fire Again how comfortable ioyful a thing shall it be for the elect to see them selues exempted of this condemnation and to haue the fruition of that souerain blessednesse in eternal glory For he it is that treadeth the wine presse of the fierc●nesse and wrath of almighty God That is he shall poure forth his vengeaunce vpon the proud and infidels and shall punish them most greuously with his strong mightie arme stretched ouer their heads striking them in his rage furie wherunder all things are set And I saw an A●gell standing in the Sunne signifying the Apostles and al true ministers of the word of god which stand in the bright cleare sunne of righteousnesse which is Christ Iesu that amiable and shining morning starre And these worthy witnesses stand fast in a sted●ast assurāce of faith in his name against the whole multitude of Antechrist without mouing of their féete from y e well grounded stone which is Christ Iesu which for nothing in this world be it persecution paine torment or deathe will shrincke therefro And he cried with a loude voyce to all the Foules that did flie by the middes of heauen This voice cried and shall call vntil the worldes end with a feruent and constant mind vnto al foules which flie vnder heauen to them which are humble of mind and be●●me spiritual through faith and heauenly giftes These f●ying foules laying aside quite abolishing all worldly plesures or corruptiblenesse lift themselues vp aboue their affections on hie and make their cōuersation to be in heauen and lead héere in earth an heauenly life These are the chosē soules which the father féedeth and sustaineth wyth●ute their own deserts Such a one was Abrahā in Mesopotamie Moyses in Sinai Helias vpon y e mount Carmelus Daniel amōgst y e lions ●aul in Damas●o S. Iohn in Pathmos and many moe euen herein England and in other places and shal be to the worlds end The maner of their calling is Come assemble you in vnitie of faith and mind knit your selues togither in Christ Iesu in loue which is the bond of perf●ctnesse that the peace of god which passeth al vnderstanding kéepe your hearts mindes in Christ Iesu our Lord. Prepare ye sayth the Angel to come to that great and supernaturall good supper of the Lord Which is that eternall and euerlasting refreshing of the soul. Come on and tast of the most daintiest dishes most sumptuous fare which neuer eye hath séene neither care hath heard neither came into mannes heart which God hath prepared for them y ● loue him learne out of gods holy word what his good wil pleasure is folow the same in life maners flie from al worldly pleasures Liue soberly temperately chastly righteously in the feare of god attending and waiting vpon the cōming of our Lord and God Finally order and frame your life so that ye may eat t●e fl●she of kings that ye may by exhortation and ensample teach the worldly gouerners to conuert vnto the Lord and to forsake all maner of filthie carnall and sinnefull lustes And that ye may eat the fl●sh of all captaines and mightie men pluck down the hie minded hearts of tirāts to bring vnder their ●rueltie and loftie stomacks deuour also the flesh of the worldly rich and proud mā cause him to leaue of al worldly pleasures ●xcesse and manifolde vanities And the fl●she of horsses ●nd of them that sit on them And the flesh of al fre men bōdmen and of smal and great Regard neither horsses nor them that sit on thē but teare their flesh in péeces Spare no man neyther hie nor low rich nor poore bond nor frée but checke and taunt them that they leauing their old wicked wayes turne to the lord As for the obstinate and stubborn which wil not bow but resist break them and hew them in pieces punish the wicked and carnall worldlings of what degree so euer they be and these beastly Antechristes cruel Grashoppers which sit on them take away the pride and loftinesse from these loitering prelates and idle bishops and also of thē that imitate and follow their mischeuous hipocrisie deliuer the oppressed and turne back the cruell persecution from the innocents poure downe thy wrath ouer the wicked according to their desertes and let none escape Imitate the Eagle and Kite resort there where as the dead carkasses men without liuely faith and drouned in sinne be Teache euery one to walke honestly in their vocation let Princes vnderstand that it behoueth them to be learned and wise in all sciēces but abo●e al in the holy Bible which be the Scriptures and that it becometh thē to walke in the feare of god not to do al things vnaduisedly and according to their owne pleasure but orderly as reason and equitie doth require not to oppresse the poore innocents and fatherlesse but to aid succoure and helpe them and to punishe the wicked and malefactors nor vse exfortion in taxing ouermuch their commens subiects The rich welthy that they be merciful good stewards distributers of y e gifts of God cōmitted to their charge To the hipocrites Idolaters that they leaue of their vaine trust or confidence in any creatures returne vnto the liuing God Again the whoremonger that he goe no more like a beast and Mule in whom is no vnderstanding after other mennes wiues but rather take his own wife to flie al occasions of euil Cōmaund the ruler to be faithful in his calling and the Commons louingly to obey The wife to be true and obedient to hir husband againe the husband to be friendable and louing to his wife defend hir cherish and nourish hir euen as Christ defended his Church and cared for hir Children to be obediēt to their Parents the Parentes not to prouoke their children to wrathe And the seruaunts to obey them that be their masters c. Thou shalt eate the flesh of the Giantes and drinke the bloud of the Princes of the earth of the Weathers of Buckes and Bulles which shall be slayne at Basan And I saw the Beast and the Kings of the earth and their armie That is these Ruffians and lecherous Bishops Monkes Abbots and the rest of these shauelings of Antechrist with the Princes of this world cruel tyrant● catchpols and hangmen of the Beast are assembled together to consult and gather souldiours and set them out to fight against him which sate vppon the white horse to make warre against Christ and his beloued Churche his chosen and peculiare people his seruaunts which without any kind of doubt or wauering follow him They séeke I say to kil and slay

with grace in your hearts giuing thanks always to god the father of our Lord Iesus Christ submitting your selues one to the other in the feare of God Wiues submit your selues vnto your husbandes as vnto the Lord for the husband is the heade of the wife euen as Christ is the heade of the Church and is the sauioure of his bodie Therefore as the Church is in subiection vnto Christ Euen so let the wiues be to their husbandes in euery thing Ye husbands loue your wiues dwel with them as men of knowledge giuing honor vnto the woman as vnto the weaker vessell euen as they which are heires togither of the grace of life Euen as Christ loued the Church and gaue him selfe for it that he might sanctifie it and clense it and make it vnto himself a glorious Church without any spot or wrinckle but that it should be holy and without blame So ought men to loue their wiues as their owne bodies for he that loueth his wife loueth him self For no man euer yet hated his owne flesh but nourisheth cherisheth it as the Lord doth his Churche for we are members of his bodye of hys flesh and of his bones For this cause shal a man leaue father and mother and shall cleaue to his wife and they twaine shall be one flesh Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right Honour thy father and mother which is the first cōmaundement with promisse Againe ye Fathers prouoke not your children to wrath but bring them vp in instructiō information of the Lord. Ye seruauntes must obey vnto them that be your bodily maisters according to the flesh with fear trembling in singlenesse of your heart as vnto the Lord. Not with seruice to the eye as men pleasers but as the seruants of Christ doing the wil of God from the heart with a good will seruing the Lord not men being well assured that whatsoeuer good thing any mā doth that same shall he receiue of the lord whether he be bonde or free Therefore ye maisters doe the same thing vnto them putting away threatening knowing that you haue a maister also in heauen with whom there is no respect of persons Finally I beséech you all indifferent of what estate condition or calling so euer ye be that ye wil shew your self an ensample in word and conuersation in all good workes kéeping your selfe alwayes vnder discipline and true doctrin without any damage of preiudice to any keeping the word whole irreprehensible y t the aduersaries might be ashamed hauing no occasion to speake euill of you with the truthe Therefore submit your selues to Princes rulers and powers and be readie to euerie good worke Accuse or blame no man be ye not spiteful cōtentious or wrathful but amiable and peaceable shewing louing kindnesse and courteousnesse to all men Girde the loynes of your heart Stande manfully and put your whole trust and cōfidence in the grace which is now offered Let your loue be vnfained Abhorre that which is euill and cleaue to y t which is good Be affectioned to loue one an other with all reuerence Be not slouthful or negligent to do seruice but be feruent in spirite Frame your se●fe according to the time Reioyce in hope be patient in tribulation cōtinue in prayer distribute vnto the necessitie of the Saintes giuing your selfe to Hospitalitie Blesse them which persecute you blesse I say ●ursse not if it be possible as much as in you is Haue peace wyth all men Be all of one minde of one concorde and one iudgement That nothing be done throughe contention or vaine glory● but that in méekenesse of minde euery man estee●e other better than him selfe Let no man séeke his owne but the profite of other men Be ●eruent in loue haue brotherly loue among you without the which al other things are nothing to speake of of what faith so euer we boast our selues to haue Loue is courteous long suffering not enuious not guileful nor puffed vp desireth no dishonestie It séeketh not ●ir owne is not prouoked to anger it thinketh no euill it delighteth not in vnrighteousnesse but reioyseth in the truthe endureth all things hopeth in al things and neuer faileth Through very lo●e and charitie is Christ Iesu become man for vs and hath humbled him selfe in al kind of obediēce through loue and suffered death on the Crosse to saue vs. So then let vs abide in charitie and doe well without wearinesse for that which man soweth that same also he shal reape If he sowe in the fleshe he shall reape againe of the fleshe perdition But if he sowe in the spirite he shall reape of the spirite life Therefore continue in wel doing although ye suffer rebuke and ignominie of the world Be humble and méeke with Abraham Moyses and Dauid Be long suffering and pacient with Iob and Thobie in al kind of troubles aduer●ities tribulations The Lord alwayes vseth to send his rods first of all ouer his house therfore when he chastneth vs for our sinnes which we haue done in times past we must paciently beare it It must be of necessitie that the godly suffer persecution to exercise their faith and shew their loue and feruencie Abraham was proued héere of the Lord Iob troubled and molested and were both found faithful and cōstant The Apostles were mery and glad that they were foūd worthy to suffer iniurie wrong contempt hatred for y e name of Iesu Christ. The Lord trieth and proueth the godly as golde in the fornace He chasteneth al them which hée loueth and scourgeth euery sonne which he receiueth It is only faith which ouercommeth all euill and obtaineth victorie through pacience The fruite springing vnto eternall life is maruelously assaulted in the godly whilest we be héere in this world The things must néedes fall vpon vs séeing we are vnperfect Let vs therefore be stedfast and vnmoueable hauing a good hope alwayes in our affliction trouble or persecution in the losing forgoing be it of our friends or goods yea our bodies y t we shal be recōpēsed greatly for a litle trouble which we heere indure God wil proue trie vs and receiue vs if so be we abide constant as an acceptable sacrifice of swe●te sauoure Let vs then depend wholy vpon him and he shal kéepe vs let vs hope and trust vpon him and he wil not forsake vs let vs stedfastly cleaue vnto him he shall not leaue vs destitute Therefore my deare brethren let vs consider and ouerrunne al ages and times and diligently marke if at any time any one was put to confusion and shame which trusted in the Lorde He which called vpon him in faith and confidence was he euer forsaken or contempned of him