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A04503	An excellent treatise touching the restoring againe of him that is fallen written by the worthy, Saint Chrysostome to Theodorus a friend of his, who by leud liuing, was fallen from the Gospell; fit to read for reclaiming their hearts which are in like case. Englished (out of an auncient Latin translation, written in velume) by R.W. With an annexed epistle of comfort from one friend to another, wherin the Anabaptists error of desperation is briefly confuted, and the sinne against the holy Ghost plainly declared.	John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Cottesford, Thomas. Epistle of comfort.; Wolcomb, Robert, b. 1567 or 8.	1609 (1609)	STC 14631; ESTC S121653	61,720	216

all these is left all things are taken from thy soule she is bereft of all her beautie and all the giftes which God bestowed on her she remaineth spoiled deformed fowle she hath lost all her aide and safegard No doore now is shut in her no entrie is kept but she lyeth open to all naughtie spirits which corrupt the soule No vncleane thought no filthie desire is thence expelled but if the spirit of fornication come it entreth in if the spirit of pride if the spirit of auarice if more hellish and vnpure than these shall come none forbiddeth them none beareth them backe For she hath no keeper no Sexton And as to the secrets of heauen there is no accesse for an vngodly person so at the first no infection could touch thy mind But perhaps I may seeme to speake incredible things to those especially that knew not thy former estate and onely see the destruction wherein thy soule now lieth This surely is the cause why I weepe without remedie because I knew thee and why I sorrow vncessantly because I remember how long it is vntill I see thee returne vnto thy wonted and pristine glory Which for all that men may iudge impossible Mat. 19.26 * Psal 113.8 9. 1. Sam. 2.8 For he it is that raiseth the needy out or the dust lifteth vp the poore out of the dunge That he may s●t him with princes ●uen with the princes of the people He it is that maketh the barren woman to dwell with a family and a ioyfull mother of children Let vs not then doubt nor despaire If Sathan draw to sin God can pull backe to goodnes but that thou mayest be conuerted into a better case For if the diuell could do so much in thee as to draw thee from the height of vertue to the depth of wickednes how much more shal God be able to reclaime thee to the highest pitch of goodnesse and not onely make thee that thou wast once but farre more blessed than thou diddest seeme in thy owne conceit Onely be of stout courage neither cast of the hope of goodnesse let not I pray thee that betide thee which doth the godlesse Vngodlines without penitencie breedeth to despaire It is impietie not the multitude of sinnes that bringeth a foole to desperation and therefore Salomon sayd not that each one when hee commeth into the depth of euils contemneth but * Pro. 18.3 the wicked saith he if he come into the depth of euils contemneth It is then a point of the impious to haue no hope of saluation Or when the wicked commeth thē commeth contempt and to contemne when they come into the depth of sinnes vngodlinesse not permitting them to haue respect to God and to returne thither from whence they fell So that this thought which cutteth away all hope of conuersion issueth from impietie and as a most heauie stone accloying the soule it perpetually compelleth it to behold the earth and neuer to looke vpward on God When we sinne we must not despaire But a lusty stomacke and loftie minde will cast down this hurtful weight of his soule and tread vnder feet Sathan that being his owne gouernour hee may sing the Psalmists words of God * Psal 113 2. As the eies of seruans looke vpon the hands of their masters and as the eies of a maiden vpon the hands of her mistres so our eyes waite vpon the Lord our God till he haue mercy vpon vs. Haue mercy vpon vs O Lord haue mercy vpon vs for we haue suffered too much contempt And in these wordes of this heauenly prophecie there is singular doctrine we haue suffered too much contempt This is that hee would haue vs say that although for the multitude of our sinnes wee haue suffered much contempt and are surrounded with reproches yet our eyes shall waite vpon the Lord our God till hee haue mercy vpon vs that we will not leaue of beseeching vntill we be vouchsafed forgiuenes We ought to be earnest in prayer when wee sue for forgiuenes and not to rest till God haue fulfilled our petitions For this is the badge of a constant and setled minde that it is not wearie of perseuering in intrearie through dispaire to obtaine but continueth and persisteth in crauing vntill the Lord haue mercy vpon it * These two periods following G.F. Capito hath not in his translation And least you should think you offende greatly before the Lord if not vouchsafed to be heard you continue importunately in prayers call to memory the Euangelicall parable and there you shall find that the Lord sheweth that stiffe perseuering beggers are not vnacceptable to him For he saith * Lu. 11.8 Though he would not giue him because he is his friend yet because of his importunitie he will rise and giue him as much as hee needeth Vnderstand therefore deare friend that the diuell putteth into our mindes despaire of obteining to this end that he may cut from vs the hope of the goodnesse of God which is the Anchor of our saluation the foundation ●f life the guide of the way ●hrough which wee passe to ●eauen in briefe the Apostle ●aith * Ro. 8.24 by hope we are saued Insomuch that our saluation consisteth in hope which draw●th vp our soules from out the earth knit as it were to certaine chaines hanging downe from heauen and calleth againe those to the heauenly dwelling place which cleaue to themselues exalting them securely aboue the troubles of this life and earthly miseries Wherefore if any encumbred with these calamities bee dissolute and let goe out of his hands the anchor of hope hee must needes fall and be caried into the bottomlesse pit and profunditie of euils The dangers of despaire Which assoone as the enemie shall perceiue and see vs loath the multitude of our sinnes and feare through remorse of conscience straightway he draweth neere and casteth before our eyes cogitations of despaire more heauie than any leade or grauell which if wee vndertake we must of necessity bee drowned in the depth or euils because with the very load the staies of our saluation are broken Into the which depth because thou art cast thou dost throw behind thee the precepts of a good and gentle lord and thou doest obey the becke of a bloudy and mercilesse tyrant Mat. 11.30 the enemie of thy saluation Thou hast shaken off the sweete yoke of Christ and hast laid on thy necke for it the hard and iron fetters of sinne thou hast shaken off the easie burden of a lowly and meeke Lord and for it hast hanged about thy neck a milstone but how long doest thou so continue Stand now at the last and cease to drown thy vnhappy soule without any care without any aduise how long doest thou hast it foorth and cast it downe headlong to thy owne decay Luke 15. And truly the woman in the Gospell which found againe the lost groate

AN EXCELLENT Treatise touching the restoring againe of him that is fallen Written by the worthy Saint Chrysostome to Theodorus a friend of his who by leud liuing was fallen from the Gospell fit to read for reclaiming their hearts which are in like case Englished out of an auncient Latin translation written in Velume by R.W. With an annexed Epistle of comfort from one friend to another where in the Anabaptists error of desperation is briefly confuted and the sinne against the holy Ghost plainly declared Heb. 3.13 Exhort ye one another daily while it is called to day LONDON Printed for I. Helme and are to be sold at his shop at S. Dunstans Church Of the profit of this Treatise THe prince of Surgeons Phoebus sonne In curing famous was Machaon and his brother too By art brought much to pas The best of these in festered sores Did all and could no more To soule of man corrupt by sinne Their skill denied a dore But heere behold ' gainst dreadfull crimes A soueraigne medcine lies A Moly Panaceia sweete To him that vpward sties If fallen downe thou feele dispaire Read through this pamphlet small It Theôn cheiras powerfull salue In such assaults maist call R. W. 1. Pet. 4.3 It is sufficient for vs that we haue spent the time past of the life after the lust of the Gentiles walking in wantonnesse lusts drun●ennesse gluttonie drinkings and in abominable idolatries To the Worshipfull and his special good friend Master IOHN KEMPTHORNE Esquier R.W. wisheth in this life prosperous successe in all affaires and in the life to come a crowne of glorie SEeing alwayes it hath bin accoūted a superfluous worke either to commend in Apollo wisedome or to extoll in Hercules puissance or to prayse in Minerua knowledge it may bee thought no lesse needlesse for mee to prayse in fined wordes and garnished stile if so I were able to doe your ardent zeale in Gods truth and maruellous affection towardes the true professors thereof And because among those that know you it shineth so oriently as in words to set it foorth were rather to imbeazle than illustrate it and among those that know you not by commending it abundantly may feare the censure of smoothing I thinke it better at this time as Salust saith of Carthage to speake nothing at all of it than a little Yet surely though the enuious happily mislike it this I affirme when I bethought to finde a meete protector for this pamphlet that might loue it as Antonius the Emperor was wont to loue books as Alphonsus was accustomed to esteeme the workes of Cicero that might reade it diligently as Erasmus did Terence as Bishop Iewell did Horace as Ladie Iane Graie did Platoes Phaedon none came to my minde before your Worship vnder the wings of whose tuition these my slender labors might safely be shadowed from all the malice of spitefull reproouers and taunting carpers Now concerning the worke some I knowe will finde fault with my presumption that being a tender suckling and nouice in good letters I would dare to put foorth ought in print especially in such a plentifull time of bookes Let these take this aunswere that I did it not voluntarily but inforced and that by the request not of one or two but of many whose good will I haue often experimented whose friendship in the Lorde I will not for a small cause violate whose authoritie I may not despise For lighting by chaunce on this treatise of Chrysostome reuerencing it at the first sight more for antiquitie than ought else assoone as I had read it ouer I did it faithfully for my priuate vtilitie into English neuer thinking it should come to this passe But hauing lent it vnto some of my friends desirous of such a peece of matter they fell suddenly into that liking and louing of it that they neuer ceased exhorting begging compelling I may say vntill maugre my head I graunted it should goe foorth for the benefit of many Which now beeing newly borne and come into the world I beseech your courtesie to receiue into your patronage and as it proceeded from a willing minde so to take it with a gladsome countenance And notwithstanding this testimonie of a gratefull minde doe not any way counterpoise the weight of your demerits yet I beseech you to accept of the poore widowes mites and of the cheerefull giuers minde Thus surceasing any longer to enterrupt your Worships serious affaires I suppliantly craue of the Almightie dayly to augment his graces in you and the vertuous Gentlewoman your wife that after your race run in this dale of miserie you may for euer enioy the sight of Christ Iesus in heauen Your worships daily and humble Orator ROB. WOLCOMB Of the restoring againe of him that is fallen OH Iere. 9.1 that my head were full of water and mine eies a fountaine of teares Much more fitly it is spoken of mee now The worthines integritie once of the person to whom he writeth Ecclu 16.3 then at that time of the Prophet of God For howbeit not many cities neither a whole countrey is to bee lamented of me yet I must mourne for a soule of more worth than many nations of more price than many cities For if one that doe the will of God be better than a great companie of the wicked thou also wast better once than many multitudes of the Iewes Wherefore let no man wonder if I peraduenture vse more large lamentations at this time The cause of the lamentation and powre out were plenty of teares than at that time the Prophet did For as I said I do not bewaile the sacking of a city which is taken nor the thraldome of the common people little set by but the downfall of an excellent soule and the ruine of a temple which Christ inhabited If any euer knew the ornaments of thy mind which now the flame of the diuel hath consumed if any euer beheld the temple of thy body when it glittered with the brightnesse of chastitie soothly he would deeme that lamentation of the Prophet small and much inferior wherein hee bewaileth that the handes of Barbarians had prophaned the holy place and that the enemies fire had destroied the Temple that the Cherubin and the Arke were defiled and that the mercy seat with the tables of stone and the golden potte were polluted For this lamentation which I vse is by so much more piteous and bitter than the other by how much more truly and euidently all these things were to bee seene in thy soule than betweene the wals of the Temple the Temple which was in thee was much holier than the other It shined not with the mettals of golde and siluer but with the vertues of the mind and giftes of the holy Ghost it had within it the Arke and the two Cherubins that is the faith of the father and the sonne and the holy Ghost The wretched plight whereinto this man was fallen Yet now nought of

backe again open sinners and blasphemers to earnest repentaunce for their owne sinfulnesse and to haue a sure trust in the mercy of God and in the merit of Christs passion and death though they be euen at the departure out of this presēt life for it is neuer too late so long as life lasteth Let vs therefore with all feruentnesse call vpon them and exhort them in any wise with a good courage and a sure and vndoubful faith aske call and cry for Gods mercy for his sweet sonne our Sauiour Iesus Christ his sake and vndoubtedly they shall haue it For since the beginning of the world hitherto was there neuer one that in faith asked mercy heartely but he had it through the gratious goodnesse of our aforesaid most mercifull sauiour Iesus Christ vnto whome with the Father and the holy Ghost be all honour laude and praise world without end Amen Yours at commaund to his power T. C. Giue all the honor laud and praise to God onely 1. Tim. 1. The prayer of Daniel turned into metre and applyed vnto our time Daniel IX O Lord thou high and fearefull God By whom all things do moue Thy mercies great are sure to such As thy precepts doe loue We sinfull men haue sore transgrest Against thy lawes deuine Full frowardly we haue fled backe From these precepts of thine Thy Prophets deare to speake were prest In setting forth thy name Both rich and poore as bold were bent For to gainesay the same To thee therefore thou Lord of hoastes All iustice doth belong To poure on vs such shame and griefe In this we haue no wrong Our shame is great and due to all Our flight is but in vaine To tread strange lands our sin hath sought Our shame doth still remaine But though such shame a reward iust To all in common be Yet mercy Lord and to forgiue Doth still belong to thee Indeede O Lord as for our selues No lesse confesse wee can But that thy lawes wee set at nought Much lesse haue kept them than Thy Prophets spake wee would not heare Ne of thee stand in awe Strange plagues from time to time we felt For breaking of thy lawe The force whereof so fiercely bent Was such as hath not bene For all the plagues in Moses lawe Fell on this Realme for sinne And yet to thee who made his sute His path way so to guide That flying vice might learne thy lawe And therein to abide Wwerefore thou sawest all would not helpe And couldst not hold thine hand But haste thy curse which now doth fall Vpon this sinfull land For as thou art a righteous God Thy workes doe soe appeare Consuming such as scorne doth take Thy louing voyce to heare But yet O Lord thou broughtest forth Thy flocke from Egipt land Whereby thy name was largely spread So now stretch forth thine hand But we haue sinned more then they Oh Lord yet stay thy rod. As for this land was sometime thine And thou also our God Our sinnes and eke our fathers faultes This day to passe hath brought That all which border vs about They set vs cleane at nought Now then O Lord hide not thy face Oh heare thy seruaunts cry Behold thine house sometime full rich How wast it doth nowe lie Thy truth is fled thy flock fast bound As sheepe led to be slaine Thy foes preuaile and prosper much Though mischiefe they maintaine And wilt not thou thy foes confound That thus thy workes reproue At least yet for thy great names sake Their vile intents remoue For why as for our owne deserts We can no such thing haue It is for thy great mercies sake That we such thinges doe craue Forgiue vs Lord intreated be To heare vs make no stay We beare thy name it is thy cause Oh Lord make no delay A Prayer against Despaire O Eternall God most louing and gratious father in Iesus Christ who art alwaies praysed and magnified by thy children in theyr great deliuerances and preseruation from their perils and daungers but especially when they perceiue themselues freede from the power of Satan death and hell from the which no creature can saue and deliuer them but thou onely O Lorde And because no chaine of the deuill or euill temptation is more strong to fetter the body and soule of man then despaire which is a wilfull forsaking of faith and confidence in thee O God it arising springing from fear and doubt as if thou wert not faithfull in thy promises or able in thy power to preserue vs Helpe Lord I beseech thee and free and deliuer me thy poore seruaunt from this temptation thraldome of Satan and soe strengthen I humbly pray thee my faith and confidence euer more in thee that in al my perils necessities wants sorrowes and griefe in this world I may haue a strong and stedfast hope in thee whereby I may ouercome repell and keepe backe the dangerous and subtill suggestions of Satan the world and the flesh to thy great glory and praise and my eternall and vnspeakable comfort through Iesus Christ my onely Lord and Sauiour Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Morning O Lord thou which couerest the night with darkenesse and causest man therein to take his rest and by euery day and night doest shew thy great glory in the heauens and also thy wisdome and power by gouerning and preseruing all thy creatures vpon the earth O Lord I thy poore seruaunt and creature doe most humbly thanke thee from the bottome of my heart for my sweete and comfortable rest this night past and for watching ouer mée by thine eye of prouidence and kéeping both my body and soule by thy grace from sinne and death beseeching thée O Lorde God my father Sauiour and comforter to blesse to sanctifie direct and preserue me in this thy new day and that I may become a newe creature vnto thée O God in holinesse and righteousnesse labouring faithfully and painfully in my calling that so my laboures this day may be sanctified and blessed vnto mée and mine and that I may shew forth thy praise in al my waies and declare my loue and charity vnto men in all my works that after the dayes of this my life and pilgrimage finished and ended here in this world I may liue with thee for euer in the world to come throgh Iesus Christ my Lorde and Sauiour who liueth and reigneth with thée and the holy Ghost euer one God world without end Amen ¶ A Prayer for the Euening O gratious and mercifull God I am most bound vnto thy heauenly Maiesty for my preseruatiō this day because I and al men are continually subiect vnto all dangers and perils griefes sorrowes sicknesse and death yea we lie open vnles thy grace and might doe defend vs vnto the temptations tyranny of the world the flesh the deuill which daily seek and desire our hurt and confusion both of body soule for euer Wherefore O gratious and euerliuing God as thy right hand and sauing health hath bene with mée this day and thou hast directed blessed and comforted mee thy poore seruaunt in all my wayes and labours for the which I most hūbly thank thée so I most earnestly entreat thy Maiesty in thy loue and mercy for Christ Iesus sake to keepe mée and al mine in safety this night and to couer vs vnder the shadow of thy winges from all perils and dangers whatsoeuer and that our soules as well as our bodies may take their swéet and comfortable rest and ioy in thée and likewise that thou wouldest grant that whensoeuer thou shalt knocke at the doore of our hearts to call vs vnto thee O God we may with the wise Virgins be watchfull haue oyle in our lamps that we may be receiued into eternall rest through Iesus Christ thy deare sonn and our onely Sauiour Amen FINIS