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A04917	A godly letter sent too the fayethfull in London, Newcastell, Barwyke, and to all other within the realme off Englande, that loue the co[m]minge of oure Lorde Iesus by Ihon Knox; Admonition or warning that the faithful Christians in London, Newcastel Barwycke and others, may avoide Gods vengeaunce	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1554 (1554)	STC 15059.5; ESTC S108135	51,203	96

those that peryshed for lack of admonicions / and yet shal the plague not a moment the longer be delayed / for the Lorde hath apoynted the daye of hys vengeaunce / before the whiche he sendeth trompettes and messingers / that hys electe / watchynge with prayers / and sobrietie / maye be hys mercye esscape the vengeaunce that shal come But now you wolde knowe the groundes of my certitude / God graundt that hearinge them / you maye vnderstande / and stedfastlye beleue the same My assurances are / not the maruailes of Marlynge / neither yet the darke sentēces of prophaine Prophetes / but the playne truthe of Gods holy worde The immutable iustice of the euerliuing God And the ordenary course of hys plagues from the beginning are my assuraunces groundes Gods worde threatneth distrucciō to the inobediēt Deu. xxvii Ierem v. Amos. iij. Hys immutable iustice muste require thesame The ordenarye punishmentes and plagues sheweth examples / What menne then hauynge vnderstandynge / can cease to prophecye The worde of God playnely speaketh / Deut ●9 that yf a man shal heare the curses of Gods law / and yet in his hart shal promys to hym selfe / felicitie and good lucke / thinckinge / he shall haue peace / albeit he walcke after the Imaginacions of hys owne wil and hart To suche a man the Lord will not be mercifull / but hys wrath shal be kyndled against him / and he shal destroye hys name frō vnder the heauen / how the Lord threathneth plagues after plague / and euer the last to be the fyrst / whill fynally / he will consume realmes / and nations / if they repent not / reade the .26 Chapter off Leuiticus / which chapter / oft I haue willed you to marke / as yet I do vnfainedly / anh thinke not / it apretāneth to the Iewes only / No brethern The Prophetes are the interparatours of the law / and they make the plagues off God commō to all offendore / the punyshment euer beginning at the houshold of God The wicked protestatiō of the late duke off Northuberlād / at the hour of his death / agaynste hys owne conscience in hope off ●yfe Esai xiij xv.xviij.cvij.xix Ieremi l lj Ezech. xxv xxvi ●7 And here I must touche a poinct off that deuillishe confession made a late by that miserable man / whose name for sorow I can not recyte This argumēt he vseth to proue the doctrine of late yeres done / taught amongest you / to be wicked / Trobles and plagues sayth he hath folowed the same / not only here in England / but also in Germany / as he willeth you to marke This fragill / and vaine argument at this tyme / no otherwyse will I labor / to confute / then by plaine scriptures declaring / that plagues apertayneth to all inobedient / beginninge firste / where Gods mercies hath bene offered / and obstinatly refused / that may aunswere the blynde rage of ignoraūces The Prophetes Esai Ieremi Ezechieli after they had proclaymed plagues to fall vppon the people off Israel / and vpon the house of Iuda / prophecyeth particularlye againste certeyn nations and cyties / not onely adiacēt in circute about Ierusalem / but also againste suche / as were far distant / as against Moah Ammon Palestina Aegipt Tirus Damascus and Babilone And in conclusion generall prophesies / are spoken against all inobedient / and synfull natiōs / as in the .24 chapter off Esaye plainly apeareth / Ierem. xxv as also the Lord commaunding Ieremye / to geue the cuppe off hys wrath / to al nations / one after another / who sholde drinke off the same / although they refused it of his hand / That is albeit / they wolde not beleue the voyce off the prophet / yet sholde they not escape Ierem. ● The plagues that he spake For euery nation lyke vnto this / shal I punisshe saith the Lord of hostes / with thesame agreeth Amos saing Amos. ix The eyes of the Lord are vpon euery sinfull nation to roote it out of the earthe These and many mo places euidētly proueth that plagues spoke in the law of God / apertaineth to euery rebellions people / be they Iew / or be they Gentile / Christians intytel / or Turkes in professiō / And the grounde off the Prophetes / was thesame / The iustice of God whiche before I haue rehersed for my assuraunces / that Englande shall be plagued / which is Godes immutable and inuiolable iustice / whiche can not spare in one Realme and nation / those offences that moste seuerally he hath punisshed in another / for so were he in equall and made differēs / as touching executiō off his iust iudgementes / betwixte parson and parson / whiche is most contrarious to the integritie off his iustice / for thus he speaketh by Ieremy his prophete Behold Ierem. xxv I haue begōne to punisshe in the house where my name is incalled / and shall I spare the rest as the Lorde wolde saye / howe can my iustice permit those crymes vnpunished in proude contemptnors / that neither regardeth me / nor yet my lawe / seing I haue not spared my own people / that externally beareth some reuerēs to my name Englande synfull That God hath punished other realmes nations / men of smal vnderstāding / wil easly confes But whether that lyke crymes hathe ben / and yet are committed within the realme of Englande / as were before the laste plagues of God among those nations / that is to be inquyred / in this case can nothing better instruct vs then Gods plaine woorde / rebuking the vices / whiche raigned in those dayes / And omitting all such as prophesied before / it shal suffice for this tyme / to reherse some places of Ieremye The tyme of whose prophecie wel consydered / shal make the matter more sensible He beginneth in the .13 yeare of the raigne of king Iosias and contine with tyll after the destrucciō of Ierusalem / whiche came in the .11 yeare of Zedechias / Longe preached this godly man to wite .39 yeares and sixe monethes / before the vttermost of the plagues apprehēded this stubborn nation and that he did with much troble and iniurie susteined / as in his prophesyes / is to be sene Be all lykelyhold then / there were some Cob Carles / that were not pleased with the proffit / neither yet with hys preachinges And yet plaine●t is / that no Kyng so truly turned vnto God with all hys hart / with all hys soule / and with all hys strength / accordinge to all the law of Moyses / as did Iosias / yet as sayd is The prophet of God was trobled / not by no smal number / for I fynd hym complain / vniuersally generally vpon the peoples iniquitie / for thus iudgeth he Gods speakinge My people haue committed dubble iniquitie Ierem. ij They haue forsaken me / the

¶ A godly letter sent too the fayethfull in London / Newcastell / Barwyke / and to all other within the realme off Englande / that loue the cōminge of oure LORDE Iesus by Ihon Knox. Math. 10. ☞ He that continueth vnto the ende / shall be saued ¶ Imprinted in Rome before the Castel of s Aungel / at the signe of sainct Peter In the moneth of Iuly / in the yeare of our Lord. 1554. ❧ Ihon Knox To the faythfull in Londō / Newcastell / Barwyke / to all others / within the Realme of Englande / that leuith the comming of our Lord Iesus / Wissheth continuance in godlines too the ende With a declaration of prayer / annexeth to the same WHē I remēber the fearthfull threathninges of God / pro●oficed against Realmes / Leuit. xx Matth. x. and nacions / to whom the light of Gods worde hath ben offered / and contemptiously by them refused / as my hart vnfaynedly / morneth for your present estate / dearly beloued in our sauiour Ihesus Christ / so doth the hole powers / of body soule / trymble and shake / for the plagues that are to come But that Gods trew worde hath ben offered to the realme of England can none denye / except suche as by the dyuel holden in bōdage God iustly so punishing their proud inobediens hath neither eyes to se / Timo. ij nor vnderstāding to dycerne good from bad / nor darkenes from light Against whome no otherwise will I contend at this present / then dyd the Prephete Ieremie / against the styffe necked stubborne people of Iuda / sayinge Ierem. xxiii The wrath off the Lord shall not be turned awaye till he haue fulfilled the thoughtes of his hart And thus leaue I them as of whose repētaūce there is small hope to the handes of hym that shall not forget their horrible blasphemis spoken in dispitte of Christes truthe / and of hys trew minister● And with you that vnfainedly morneth for the greate shipwrake of goddes trew relygion / purpose I to communicat suche counsailer / and admonicious / now by my writinge / as sometymes it pleased God / I dyd proclaime in your cares The ende of whiche my admonicion is / that euin as that you purpose / and entend to auoid Gods vengeaunce / bothe in this lyfe / and in the lyfe to come / that so ye auoid and flee aswell in body as in sprete al felowship / and societye with Idolaters in their Idolatrye You shrynke I know euin at the fyrst But yf an orator / had the matter in hādlinge / he wolde proue it honeste / profytable / easye / and necessary to be done / and in euery one poynte were store ynough / for a longe oration But as I neuer labored to perswade any man in matters of religion God I take to record in my conscience except by the very simplicitie plaine infallable truthe of Gods worde No more mynde I in this behaulfe But this I affyrme / that to fle frō idolatrye / is so profytable and so necessary to a Christian / that onles he so do / all worldly profyth turneth to his perpetuall disprofeit / and condemnacion Profijt aperteyning / either to the bodyes / or to the soules / of our selues / and our posteritie / corporall commodities consisteth in such thinges as man chiefly couetith for the body / as ryches / estimacion / longe lyfe / health and quietnes in earth The only comfort and ioye of the soule is God by his worde expelling ingoraunce / synne / and death / and in the place of those / planting trew knowledge of hym selfe / and with thesame iustice and lyfe / by Christ his sonne Yf any off these forsaide moue vs / then of necessitie it is / that we auoyde Idolatry / for playne it is / that the soule hath neither lyfe nor comfort / but by God alone / with whome Idolatours / 1. Cor. vl hath no other participacion ●hen hath the deuils / and albeit that abhominable Idolatours / for a moment ●rysiphe yet approcheth the houre / when Gods vengeaunce shall stryke / not onely their soules / but euin their vile carcasies / shal be plagued / as God before hath threatned Leui. xxv Their cyties shal be burned / their lāde shal be layd wast / their enemies shall dwell in their stronge holdes / their wyues and doughters shal be defyted their chyldrē shall fall in the edge of the swerd / mercy shall they fynde none / because they haue refused the God of all mercye / when louingly and longe he called vpon thē / you wolde know the tyme / and what certitude I haue here off To God wil I appoint no tyme / but that these and mo plagues / shall fall vpon England and that ere it he long I am so sure / as that I am that my God lyueth This my affirmacion / shall displease many / and shall content few / God knowith the secretes of all hartes / knoweth that also / it displeaseth myselfe / and yet lyke as before I haue ben compelled to speake in your presens in presens of others suche thinges / as were not pleasable to the eares of men / wherof alas a great part this daye are come to passe / so I am cōpelled now to wryte with the teares of my eyes / I know to your displeasur But deare brethrē / be subiect vnto God / and geue place vnto his wrath / that ye may escape his euerlastinge vengeaunce My penne I trust / shall now be no more vehemēt / then my tounge hath bene after then ones / not onely before you / but also before the chief of the Realme What was sayd in Newcastel Barwyke before the sweat I trust yet som in those places beareth in mynde / What vpō the daye of all Sainctes / ●et New●●stel wit●●es the yeare that the duke of Somerset was last apprehēded What before hym / that then was duke of Northumberland / in the towne of Newcastell / other places moo What before the kynges maiestye at Wynsore / Hamptoncourt / and Westmynster / fynally what was spoken in London / in moo places then one / when fyers of ioye ryotous bankettinge were made at the Proclamacion of Mary your quene Yf men will not speake / the stones and tymber of those places / shal crye in fyer / and beare record that the truthe was spoken / and shal absolue me / in that behalfe in the daye of the Lord. Suspect not brethrē / that I delyte in your calamities / or in the plagues that shal fal vpō that vnthankefull nation No / God I take to recorde / that my hart mourneth within me / and that I am crucyet for remembraunce of youre troubles / but if that I shoulde ceasse / then dyd I agaynste my conscience / as also agaynste my knowledge / Eze. xxxiij and so shoulde be gyltie of the bloud of

citie he fainted the hartes of the souldiours and of the people but principally Such vvealthe do the papistes promis the people for receauinge the Idolatrous masse againe into Englande Iere. 28. he was vnfrendly to the faythe that Passhur taught the people To weke / the fayth of their forefathers / who alwaies rebelled agaynst God And therefore he was reputed a heretycke / accused of sedicion / and dampned of treason Playne preachinges were made agaynste all that he had spoken / and suche felicitie was promised / that within twoo yeares shoulde the yocke of Nabuchonosor be broken from the neckes of all people and the vessels of the lordes house together with all prysoners should be brought agayne to Ierusalem Iere. 13. Habōdaūce cam before the destruccion Iere. 38. Now dyd this habound with wyne oyle / O pleasing and blessed amōgst the people were such prophetes / Ieremy had trobled them and therefore he must dye To pryson shall he go / for the kyng can denye nothing to his princes / of whome Pashur apeareth / to haue ben chief chaūcelour / by whom was not only the kyng / but also the hole multitude so blinded / that boldly they durst crye No mischaunce shall come too vs we shall neither se pestilens nor hunger The kynge of Babylon shall neuer come againste thys lande Iere. 27 In the middest of these stormy trobles / no other comfort had the prophet / then to complayn to hys God / at whose commaundement he had spoken And in this his cōplaint he is so kyndled agaynst their Idolatrie / and great vnthankefulnes that he crieth / as in a raige O thou Lord of hostes Iere. ●0 the tryar of the iust thou that seith the reynes and the hart Let me se thy vengeaunce taken vpon thē for vnto the haue I referred my cause ▪ 〈◊〉 this prayer was most fearful to his enemyes / yf they had sene the effiaccie therof so by thesame was the prophet assured / that Goddes wrath was kyndled against that sinful natiō that it shoulde not turne backe / till he had performed the cogitations of his owne hart I appeale to the consciēce / of euery indifferēt mā / in what one point differeth the regiment manners / A cōparison betwene Englāde Iuda and estate of Englande this day frō the aboue rehearsed estate off Iuda in those dayes / except that they had a kynge / a man as apeareth of nature / more facied / nor cruell / who sometymes was entreated in the prophetes fauour / and also requyred hym of counsail in some daungers The quene stubburne against the truthe of gods vvord and hateful to the preachers of the same And you haue a Quene / a woman of a stoute stomack / more styffe in opynion / then flexible too the truthe / who in nowyse maye abyde the presens of Gods prophetes In this one thing you disagre in al other thinges so lyke as one nut is too another Their kyng led by pestilence priestes / who guides your quene / it is not vnknowē / Vnder such came Idolatrie to the highte agayne O wold to God / that the worse were not amōgst you / In Ierusalem was Ieremie persecuted / for speakinge the truthe / for rebuking their Idolatrie What pryson within London / tormenteth not some trew prophet of God The Idolatrous masse of late first erected in the tovver of London for the same causes And o thou doungeon off darkenes where that Idole of late dayes was fyrst erected thou Tower of London in the doth moo Ieremies then one suffer iniurye trouble / The B. of Canterb. D. Ridleye M. Latimer Bradforde Sandes Becon Veron c. Preachers and prisoners in the Tovver of London whome God shal comfort according to hys promyse / and reward their persecutors euen as they haue deserued / and in that daye shalt thou trymble / and suche as shal purpose to defende the / shal perishe with the / because thou waste fyrst defyled with that most abhominable Idol Consider deare brethern if all thinges / as appertayninge to iniquitie be a lyke betwixte Englande and Iuda / before the destruccion therof / yea / Yf Englande be worse then Iudea was in those dayes / seing God spared not them / shal we thinke that the Lordes vengeaunce shal slepe / mans iniquitie beyng so rype No deare brethren Iere. ix He that hath vnderstandinge muste know the contrary And he to whome the Lordes mouth hath spokē / must shew the causes / why the lande shal be waste It maye offende you / that I cal Englande worse / then was vnthankeful Iudea / but yf good and euident reasones aduised maye take place / then I feare not iudgement Wherein Iudea was better then England is now From Ierusalem / many passed at admonition of the prophetes / leauing all that they had / rather then they wolde abyde the daunger of Gods plagues that were threatned Goddes prophetes hath cryed but I heare not of many that prepareth to flye / God graunte they repent not In Ierusalem were princes / noble men who defended Ieremy and also that dyd absolue hym / when wrongfully he was accused by the priestes But howe many now of the nobilitie within Englande boldely speaketh in in the defence of Gods messinger is easy too be tolde Amongest them had Gods prophet lyberty / to speake in maintenaunce of his doctrine How such as seketh a tryal of their doctrine / hath bene and are entreated amongest you / it is hard of in straunge countries In Ierusalem was Abdemelech / why when the prophet was cast in prysō as worthy of death boldly past to the king / and defending the innocency of the innocent / obtayneth hys liberty / but in Englād I hear of none God stur some that dare be so bolde / as to put their handes betwixt the Lyons / and their praye / the poore sainctes of God / those cruell murtherers In Ierusalem / Ieremy beyng dampned to pryson / was fedde of the kynges charges / that when great hunger and scante of bread was in the hole citie In London where all plenty haboundes / are Gods messingers permitted to hunger Yea / O horrable to be harde and aunciente fathers / are so cruelly entreated / that lyke extremetye hath seldom bene vsed vpon theues and murtherers In this behalf do I not blame you beloued brethren for I assuredly know your hartes to mourn for the trobles of your brethren / and faythfull preachers and that you seke all meanes possible / how they maye be comforted releaued / but these thinges to th ende that you mayese / that more abhominacion / lesse fear of God / more in iust dealing / and lese shame more cruel persecucion against Gods messengers / and lesse mercy and gentlenes / is now amongst youre chief rulars within Englande / then in those dayes was in Iudea / and yet did not

for it is the seale off that leage / whiche the deuell hath made with the pestilent sonnes of Antechriste / and is the very chief cause / why the bloud of the sainctes of God / hath ben shed nere the space of a thousand yeare / for so longe almost hath it bene in deuising / and in deckinge with that whorishe garmēt / The longe parching of the popisshe ●●asse wherein it now triumpheth / against Christ / againste the onely one sacrifice of hys death / merites of hys passion / which whole abhomination you confirme / and sheweth youre selfes / consentinge to the murther of those that hath suffered for speaking againste it / as oft as euer you decore that Idoll wyth your presens Note And therfore auoyde it / as that ye will be partakers with Christ / with whom ye haue sworne to dye and to lyue in baptisme and in his holye supper Shame it were to breake promys vnto man / but is it not more shame too breake it vnto God foolishnes it were to leaue that kynge / whose victorie you did se presente / and too take parte with hym / whome vnderstode perceaued to be so vanqueshed and ouerthrowen / that he neither might withstande / neither yet abyde the comming of his aduersarie Ioh. 12.16 O brethren / is not the deuel the prince of this worlde / vanquished cast out hath not Christe made conqueste off hym hath he not caryed our selfe vp to glorie in dispite of sathans malice Acto 1. Shall not oure champion retorne you vnderstande that he shall and that with expedition / when sathan and his adherentes Idolatours / Apo. 20. worshippers of that blasphemous beast / fylthie personnes / and fearefull shrinkers frome the truthe of God shal be caste in the lake burninge fyre and brimstone / which neuer shal be quenched Folishe feare But in the meane tyme / you feare corporall death / yf nature admitted any man too lyue euer / then had your feare some aparēce of reason / but yf corporall death be common to all / why will you leoperde to lese the lyfe euerlastinge to decline and escape / that whiche neyther ryche / neither poore / neither wyfe / neyther foolishe / proude of stomake / nor feable of coraige / and fynally no earthly creature / by no craft nor mene of man did euer escape / yf any hath escaped the horrible feare of deathe / it was suche as boldely did withstande mennes iniquitie in the earthe The fleshe can doo nothing but grudge But it grudgeth the flesshe saye you for feare of the torment / let it do the owne nature and office / for so must it do tyll it be burdened with Christes crosse / and then no doubte / shall God sende suche comforte / as now we looke not for Let vs not torne backe from Christe / albeit the fleshe cōplaine / and feareth the torment Wonder it is that the waye too lyfe is so fearfull vnto vs considering that so greate a number of our brethren / hath passed before vs in at the same gatte / that we so muche alhorre Hath not the moste parte of the sainctes of God entred in to their rest / by tormente trobles of whome witnesseth Paule / some were racked / Others before vs hath past to lyfe by torment some heawin a sonder / some slayne with swerdes / some walked vp doun in shepe skinnes / in neade tribulatiō vexation Heb. 11. in mountaines / dennes / and in caues off the earthe / and in all those extremities / what complaintes heare we of their mouthes / except it be that they lament the blindnes of the world / and the perdition of their persecutors Did God comforte them / and shall he despise vs yf in obediens to him / we folow their footsteppes / he shall not do it / for he hath promysed the contrarye And therfore dearly beloued in the Lorde As that you purpose too auoyde the vengeaunce of God / that sodenly shall strike all obstinate Idolatours As that you wolde hane the leage betwene God and you to stande sure / and as that you will declare your selfes to haue true faith / withoute whiche no man euer shall entre in lyfe And fynally / as that you wil leaue the true knowledge of God / in possession to youre chyldren Auoyde Idolatrie / all participation thereof / for it is so odious before Gods presens / that not onely dothe he punishe the inuentours / and fyrste offendours / but oftentymes theyr posteritie are stryken with blindenes and dasynes of mynde Deut. 28. The battaylle shall apeare stronge / which you are to suffer / but the Lord hym selfe shall be youre cōforte / he shall come in youre defence with hys mightie power / Zacha. 2● Psal 46.57.61 he shall geue you vittorie / when none is hoped for / he shall tourne your teres to euerlastynge Ioye / he shall confounde your enemyes with the breath of hys mouthe / Apoc. 7.22 Psal 55. he shall set you se their destruction that now are most proude The God of all comforte consolation for Christ Iesus / his sonnes sake / graūt that this simple plaine admonition / yea / rather the warning of the holy ghoste maye be receaued / accepted of you with no les feare obediēce then I haue written it vnto you with vnfayned loue / and sorowfull hart / then I doubte not / but we shall be comforted / when all suche as now motesteth vs / shall trymble shake by the comming of our Lord Iesus / whose omnipotent sprete perserue and kepe you vndefiled bodye and soule to the ende Amen ☞ A godly prayer AH Lorde / moste stronge and mightye God / which destroyest the coūsayles of the vngodly / and ryddest awai the tyrauntes of thys worlde / out of the earth at thy pleasure / so that no counsaill or force cā tesiste thyne eternal counsaill and euerlasting determination / we thyne poorē creatures and humble seruauntes / do moste instantly desyre the for the loue that thou hast to thyne welbeloued / and onely begotten soune oure Lorde and sauiour Iesus Christ / that thou wilt loke vpon thyne cause / for it is tyme o Lorde / and bringe to naught all those thinges that are or shal be apoynted / determined and fully agreed agaynste the and thy holy woorde / let not the enemyes of thy trueth to miserablye oppresse thy word thy seruaūtes / which seke thy glorie / tender the aduancement of thy pure religion / aboue all thinges wishe in their hartes that thy holy name may onely be glorefied amonge all nations Geue vnto thy seruaūtes the mouth of thy truthe wysedom / whiche no man maye resiste And althoughe we haue moste iustly deserued thys plague and famyn of thyne worde / yet vpon our trew repentāce / graunte we beseke the / we maye be