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A06346 A treatie of the churche conteining a true discourse, to knowe the true church by, and to discerne it from the Romish church, and all other false assemblies, or counterfet congregations / vvritten by M. Bertrande de Loque ... ; and faithfully translated out of French into English, by T.VV. Loque, Bertrand de.; T. W. 1581 (1581) STC 16812; ESTC S123131 175,246 422

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the man that indureth temptation for when he is tried hee shall receiue the crowne of life which which the Lorde hath promised to them that loue him 1. Pet. 1.6.7 Wherein yee reioyce though now for a season if neede require yee are in heauinesse through manifold temptations that the tryall of your faith being much more precious then gold that perisheth though it be tryed with fier might bee found vnto your praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Iesus Christe 1. Pet. 4.14 If yee be rayled vpon for the name of Christe blessed are yee for the spirite of glory of God resteth vpon you which on their part is yll spoken of but on your part glorified Mat. 5. 10.11 12. Blessed are they which suffer persecution for righteousnesse sake for theirs is the kingdome of heauen Blessed are yee when men reuile you and persecute you and say all maner of euil against you for my sake falsly Reioyce and be glad for great is your rewarde in heauen Roma 8.28 Al thinges worke together for the best vnto them that loue God euē to thē that are called according vnto his vnchaungeable purpose Phil. 2.27 In nothing feare your aduersaries which is to them a token of destruction but to you a token of saluation and that of God All the persecutions and afflictions which yee suffer are a manifeste token of the righteous iudgement of God 2. Thess 1.5.6.7 that yee may bee counted worthie of the kingdom of God for the which yee also suffer For it is a righteous thinge with God to recompence trybulation to them that trouble you and to you whiche are troubled deliueraunce and rest with vs When the Lorde Iesus shal shewe him selfe from heauen with his mightie Angels This is a true saying 2. Timo. 11 1● That if wee die with Christe wee shall also liue with him and if wee suffer with hym wee shall also raigne vvith him Nowe out of these places wee gather a verye greate and singular comforte An exhortation to the faithfull paciently and couragiously to beare their crosse For in the firste place wee knowe that there is not any ignominie or shame in the persecutions and afflictions whiche we suffer for Iesus Christes sake but that they are a good and sweete smellynge sauour before GOD because he approoueth and alloweth our obedience when that by the Sacrifices of our selues wee doe most willinglye presente and offer our selues vnto him Moreouer our combat and fighting shall not bee without good hyre for rest and quietnes is set out vnto vs in our pain and trauel and eternall life in our death of which it is writtē Psal 116.15 Precious before the face of the Lord is the death of his Saints And we are wel assured that this our good god beholdeth from aboue our good will and the cōfession of his holy name which we make and yeeld and that as he aideth our strength and power so also that hee will crowne our victorie and rewarde in vs all that which hee hath giuen to vs and wyll honour that which he himselfe hath begun and made perfect in vs. In summe by these persecutions we aduaunce and thrust forwarde our selues to goe to the true and eternall dwelling places of the Martyres that wee may there clearely beholde God and that there we may be partakers of so excellēt a glory as all the afflictions sufferings of this present life euen as Sainte Paule saith are not worthie of Rom. 8.18 Isaiah 6.4 1. Cor. 2.9 For the things which the eye hath not sene neither the eare hath hearde neither came into mans heart are they which God hath prepared for them that loue him Wherefore let vs not feare them which kill the body Mat. 10.28 but are not able to kill the soule but let vs rather feare him which is able to to destroy both soule and body in Hell Mat. 10.32.33 Whosoeuer shall confesse mee before men saith Iesus Christe him Will I confesse also before my father which is in heauen But whosoeuer shall deny mee before menne him will I also deny before my father which is in heauen Hee that will saue his life shall loose it Mat. 10.39 and he that looseth his life for my sake shall saue it Let vs knowe and vnderstand this that from the beginning of the world it hath beene thus ordeined and determined that all which will liue godly in Iesus Christ shal suffer persecutiō 2. Tim. 3.12 And that by many tribulations wee must enter into the kingdome of heauen For at the beginning the righteous Abell was slaine and put to death and after him all the righteous persons the Prophetes and Apostles sent by God whereof some were deliuered and cast to wilde beastes others died in prison through famine others were hanged and strangled others digged into earth buried quicke therein others drowned burned beheaded broken and ground as it were to peeces dismembred rosted boiled singed and sawed flayed all aliue stoned whipped c. And is ther any which is able to describe and set out all the tormēts which the tyrants as wel vnder the old as vnder the newe testament iudged the Christians worthie of Now the Lord Iesus hath set out vnto vs an example in himselfe teaching vs that none shall come to his kingdome but they which haue followed him by his owne way Mat. 16.24 Wherefore let vs not bee faint hearted for the persecutions and afflictions which shall come vnto vs but let vs shewe our selues strong and constant and let vs through a certain spirituall power and force pursue that euen to the end the way into which wee are entred If the waues billowes and surges of the Sea of this worlde lift vp themselues and rise against vs to swallow vs vp and to ouerwhelme vs if our enimies in great companies and bands compasse vs on euery side and assault vs Let vs crie with the apostles Mat. 8.25 Maister or Lord saue vs and he will deliuer vs out of al dangers If death feare vs let vs remember that Iesus Christ in dying hath brought this to passe that death is not death vnto vs but a very redy way to guide leade vs to life eternal glory If the world continue his assaultes against vs yea dubbleth them and trebbleth them as you would say Mat. 10.22 2. Timo. 2.5 let vs cal to our remembrance that he Which endureth vnto the end shal be saued and if any man striue for a maistery Mat. 28.20 Mat. 10.28 2. Tim. 1.12 Psal 112.6 he is not crowned except he striue as he ought to do The sonne of God is our protector and defender who hath promised vs to be with vs alwaies euē vntil the worlds end If we die for him for his sake he will keepe our soules Pro. 10.7 and that which we haue committed vnto him shal be very sure in his hands euen
and of Peroe the sonne of the foresaid Herode the great by his fourth wife named Marthaca who by violence tooke Herodias from his brother Philippe and caused Iohn Baptist to be beheaded Mat. 14.3 c. Luk. 13.31.32 Luk. 23.11 Iosephus lib. 18. Cap. 9. de Antiquitate Iudaeor Euseb lib. 2. Cap. 4. prepared and laide his Ambushmentes in waite for the Sonne of GOD him selfe and when Pilate sent Christ to him hee mocked him and sent him backe againe with great ignominie and reproch after what manner died hee The Historiographers recite and recorde that hee obeying the motions and prouocations of his shamelesse harlot Herodias and hauing beene condemned by the Emperour Caius Caligula to bee perpetually baninished did miserably finishe his life at Lions amongst the Frenchmen beeing quite and cleane spoyled of all his goods and glorie As concerning Pilate Pilate This wicked and cursed man suffering him selfe to bee wonne by the Iewes yea euen so far that hee condemned Iesus Christ against his owne conscience and hauing exercised and practised diuers cruelties and outrages against the Iewes them selues shewing him selfe alwayes prepared and readie to execute the ordinaunces and commaundementes of the Emperour whatsoeuer wickednesse was therein Supplimen Chro. Eutrop. lib. 7. Cap. 7. Euseb lib. 2. Cap. 7. at the last as it is conteined in the histories in the one and fortieth yeare of our Sauiour Christ hee was sent into exile by Caligula to Lions where the vengeance of God being fallen on him hee was locked vp closed in with such terrible griefes that beating striking him selfe with his owne handes and thinking to finish and end his euils in pricking forward and hasting his owne death he killed him selfe Behold hitherto the horrible example of Gods vengeance vpon these tyrantes and persecutours of the Church For it must in deed needes bee that they which had prouoked God and men against them should so cursedly and wickedly finishe their dayes God they prouoked principally in this that they had warred and fought against his word and men in this that they left not of any crueltie or barbarousnesse which they exercised not against them But as wee haue heeretofore more particularly described the cruell persecutions assaied and executed by the Emperours against the Church generally so we must here speake of their wicked and cursed endes Nero. Wherefore now to begin with Nero Eutropius in his eight booke Eutrop. lib. 8. speaketh thus of his ende A decree was made by the Senate that Nero should be ledde naked openly before all the people and that a forke should be put on his necke that he should bee beaten with roddes vntill that death followed thereof and that afterwardes he should be cast downe from the toppe of a rocke After this manner being forsaken of all he fledde out of the Palace and about midnight went out of the Citie accompanied onely with Pharon and Epaphroditus Neophytus and Spore his Eunuche and being about foure mile of from the Citie he thrust him selfe cleane thorow with one stroke of a sword and because his hand trembled shooke his Eunuch helped him to thrust forward the sword before which time he not finding any man that wold strike him he beganne and tooke vpon him to crie Is it so that I haue neither friende nor enemy I haue liued vilainously but yet I die more vilainously Beholde then what wages and hier this cruel Emperour receiued for his greeuous wickednesses and accursed offences Domitian receiued also the reward and Domitian recompence of his cruelties For hee was slaine in his own Palace by the hands of his owne seruauntes and houshold people his owne wife Domitia beeing consenting thereto and the Senate of Rome decreed and ordeined that his bodie shoulde bee carried and brought to the earth by the buriers after a vile manner and without honour and that all the Images of his person should be beaten downe and cast to the ground Therefore the said Senate also disanulled all his ordinaunces and decrees and called backe all other men which by his authoritie and commaundement were exiled and banished Traian Dion Traian as Dion saieth did no more escape the vengeaunce of God than the rest For first hauing had all his members withdrawne all his bodie without feeling and his senses dulled and stopped vp as it were so that hee conceiued an opinion that hee had beene poysoned moreouer being become full of the dropsie and verie much puffed vp and swollen at the last he dyed verie porely in Selmion a Citie of Sicilia Marcus Antonius Verus Marcus Aurelius otherwise called Marcus Aurelius hauing persecuted the Church at the length died feeling the wrath of God vpon him after this maner Being in the warre of Pannonia The Diall of Princes Cap. 40. which at this day is called Hongarie and keeing besieged a famous Citie in that countrie called Vendebonna and going vpon a certaine night rounde about his Campe to visite his bands and hundreds sodeinlie there fell vpon one of his armes a palsie insomuche that from that time forwarde hee coulde not either put on his garmentes or drawe his sword neither yet beare a speare After this an other sicknesse came vpon him called a Lethargie wherwith he was wonderfully tormēted and troubled Thus being sicke in his Tent he caused a cruell battell and a harde assault to be giuen against that people and the Hungarians insomuch that there was great bloudshead committed on the one side and on the other The Emperour hearing of the euill order amongst his souldiers namely that fiue of his Capitaines were dead and that none of them all coulde there bee founde a certeine heauinesse ceased and possessed his heart insomuch that all thought that vpon a sodeine and as it were in the turning of a hande hee had lost his life and so he continued two dayes and three nightes without hauing a will or minde to behold the light of the firmament or to speake to any man in the world so that his heat was verie great his rest verie litle he had continuall sighinges and groninges a great thirst small appetite to eate no sleepe and aboue all hee had his visage altogether wrinckled his lippes altogether blacke his eyes hollowe and suncke into his head and his tongue swollen without being able to spitte And so a litle while afterwardes not knowing to whom he might commit and commend his soule but as it were one altogether lost and cast away speaking these wordes vnto Commodus his sonne Remembring me of this that I haue come into life I haue nowe no more delight or pleasure to liue But as I knowe not whither death carrieth vs so I feare refuse death it selfe What should I do seeing that the Goddes tell mee not what I shall doe Immediately he roled and turned his eyes and lost his feeling and hauing been in this paine and agonie by the space of more than a quarter of