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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11043	Holy churches complaint, for her childrens disobedience		1600 (1600)	STC 21307.7; ESTC S2304	3,764	10

HOLY CHVRCHES Complaint for her childrens disobedience HE which the Church for Mother will not haue And still continues in his stubborne will May be assurde that God him wil not saue But let him head-long runne from worse to ill If thou for euer then with him wilt bee Come home againe the Keys he left with mee Holie Churches Complaint VVHiles Adam soundly sléep did take Gods wisedome did prouide A louing Spouse to be his make Created from his side So Christ our Lord vpon the roode By death on sléepe did fall And from his side water and blood Did runne to rinse vs all Whereby his Church he did ordaine His louing Spouse and make The cause why all that bitter paine He suffered for her sake And cleansed her from filthy crime By Baptisme bath by blood And wanne her strait from time to time By conquest on the Roode And warned all obediently To heare his Churches voyce Math. 18.17 Or else as heathen men to be And of no better choyce Wherefore O man take thou good keep What holy Church doth say Vnto all such like wandring shéepe As runne from her astray O erring flocke with all thy powre Returne to me againe Iohn 10. Or hellish wolfes will thée deuoure Vnto eternall paine You should be children of Gods house Come séeke your dwelling there Gods holy Church and louing Spouse Which is your Mother deare Aug. in psa 88. de lymb lib. 4. Cip. c. 10. de simplicitate prelat Prouerb 1.9 Iohn 14.16 26. Iohn 15.26 Iohn 16.7 As holy Doctors all write this And constantly agrée To whom Christs Church no mother is God will no father be The holy Ghost Christ promised To me his Spouse to send That in all truth I might be led Vntill this world should end The 2 Testamēts Malach. 2.7 Esa 12 3. Rom. 10.15 Iohn 10. From my two dugges the foode of life Doe all Gods children drawe Submissiuely without all strife Vnto my sacred Lawe If any man contend vpon The mysteries of our faith Then should you answer such a one As sacred scripture saith 1. Cor. 11.16 1. Reg. 15.22 2. Cor. 10.5 1. Pet. 1.14 No such custome haue we in this Nor holy church likewise For we wel know Obedience is Excéeding sacrifice Take Credite and Authoritie From me Christs Spouse away Then all true faith vndoubtedly Wil fall to déepe decay By me you know God and his word And the true sense thereof Though heretikes will not accord But prowdly scorne and scoffe And schismatikes that seperate Themselues from grace and peace How do you thinke your sinfull state Alas shall finde release O thinke on what our Sauiour deare Hath suffered for thy sake The space of thrée and thirty yeare Most bitter paines to take And poorely borne it is wel knowne Thou needst not to be tolde Descending from his heauenly throne To bring thée to his folde And in this worldly wildernesse With loue long hath thee sought The poerelesse price who can expresse Wherewith he hath thée bought For loue of thée his griefe was great The like was neuer found From his swéete face a bloudy sweate Did trickle to the ground Marke how his blessed flesh was rent With whips on euery side Yet for thy sake he was content Such torments to abide Vpon his head him to disgrace They set a crowne of thorne That streams of bloud ranne downe apace Which patiently was borne Condemned was this Innocent Vpon a Crosse to die The which he bare incontinent Towards mount Caluerie His blessed hands and féete thereto With nailes were fixed fast Three houres so most bitter woe For thee thy Lord did taste All passengers that pitteously Behold this bitter paine Thren 1.12 Declare to me like cruelty Did euer man sustaine His head with thorns his eies with tears His mouth is filld with gall And bloudy wounds as well appeares Doe paine his members all This heauenly bridegroome on the Roode His Church to Spouse did take And others all as bastards broode Did vtterly forsake Then all his paine it is in vaine O sinfull wretch to thée Except in me thou wilt remaine In perfect vnitie Galat 7. 1 Pet 3 21. Ephet 5.24 As well Noes Arke did signifie When all the world was drownd So in my lap assuredly Is all true safetie sound Symbol Athan. Iohn 15.1.5 6 Séeke where thou wilt no other place From sinne can set thée frée Of all the treasures of his grace The Keyes he left with me My Spouse ascending left with me His treasure and his store That I might giue as cause I sée A salue to euery sore The seauen sacraments Giue eare to me a little space And marke attentiuely How seauen conduits of God's grace I open vnto thée And first in Baptisme I do beare The sacrament of Baptisme Through God the holy ghost Most faithfull children farre and neare To him in euery coast Then do I strengthen them also Confirmation With further gifts of grace To fight against their deadly foe That seekes them to displace If they through sinne and Satans guile Penance Receiue some deadly wound I can them salue and reconcile Repentance being found I féede them all with Angels foode And heauenly Manna pure The holy Eucharist Which hung for them vpon the Roode Saluation to procure I giue them grace to multiply In such as married be Matrimony Two in one flesh coniunctiuely Resembling Christ and me For godly gouernement I giue High Orders in degree Holy Orders Vnder whose charge my children liue And walke obediently As Dauid sung in prophecie Psal 44.17 For parents past againe Should children borne still placed be As Princes for to raigne When languishing sore sicke they lie In weake and feeble state To comfort them my Pastors hie In that most dreadfull gate The sacrament of extreame Vnction The gate that all mankinde must goe Wherefore I them annoynt With holy oyle against their foe Iacob 5.14 As Scriptures do appoynt Moreouer this The holy sacrifice of the masse I haue a pure And dayly sacrifice Which to my children doth procure Mercy and Grace likewise As Malachi foretold by name Malac. 1.11 From rising of the Sunne Vnto the setting of the same This sacrifice is done With other giftes and graces moe Eccl. 24. I haue for to dispose Which all that thus vnkindely goe From me of force must lose Returne then to repentance méeke Mercy in time require I groane I sigh I sobbe and séeke To saue thée from hell fire Thy Fathers force and potent hand In furious rage will strike Luc. 10.16 If thou thy Mother dost withstand And sacred Lawes mislike Ose 1 2. Forsake that stepdame Heresie Come walke my holy way Esa 35.8 Wherein by Esaies prophecie Fooles cannot runne astray Embrace me then obediently Sée in Gods sacred Booke Esai 49 23. How mighty Kings shall foster me And Quéenes must giue me sucke O how should I forgotten be Thus in so short a space For neuer since Christ planted me That I did hide my face Although that harlot Heresie Would maske in mine attire Yet may the simplest plainely sée How hell and she conspire To seeke my vtter ouerthrow Is all their whole intent Yet spurning at the pricke you know Is time but vainely spent Full falsly they doe me accuse Matth. 13.25 Their owne darke cause to cleare That I Gods truth did cleane refuse For many a hundred yeare Math. 28.20 Iohn 14.16.26 Iohn 15.26 Iohn 16.7 Though Christ my Spouse and only aide The holy Ghost my guide As is in Scripture plainely saide And cannot be denide If that a Bird cannot incline Math 10.20 Luc. 12.6 To fall nor to ascend Without Gods prouidence diuine Whereon she doth depend If to each creature he doe yéelde Reliefe in their degrée And to the Lillies of the field Will not vnmindfull be Math. 1.26.28 He cannot be forgetfull in His honor and renowne Esai 49 15 16. And suffer so hell gates to win Math. 16.18 His kingdome and his crowne My feete are placed on the rocke My God is my defence Gala. 15.1 Psal 17.31 The force of all the hellish flocke Cannot remoue me thence Of Trueth I am the onely ground 1. Tim. 3.15 As holy Paul doth tell In me Gods will is onely found In me all grace doth dwell I am the Tabernacle still Psal 18.6 Set in the Sunne to shine I am that citty on a hill Math. 5.15 That 's hid from no mans eine I am cut forth of Christ his side As is in Daniel found Dan. 2.35 To fill the world both farre and wide With force of doctrine sound Therefore my name is Catholike For euery time and place Vnto that faith then firmely sticke That most men still embrace By Dauids words I hold this plea Psal 2.8 Psal ●1 8 That Christ must rule and raigne From sea to sea and from the sea Through all the world againe How can they charge me that I should Gods holy truth deny For so his promise cannot holde But Scriptures falsly lie He prayd for me most feruently How could he but preuaile And therefore did assure to me Luc. 22.31 Luc. 12.49 Math. 13.24 30 My faith should neuer faile O you poore soules so purchased With Christs most pretious bloud What fury hath so fondly led You from your chiefest good Especially to thée my deare Standing in this estate Through wicked wealth or worldly feare O most accursed Fate Lesse to estéeme of God then golde Of soule than carkasse vile O that such sensuall pleasure should Put reason in exile Heb. 12.1 2. Math. 16.24 Math. 10.37 38. If here thy crosse thou wilt not take With Christ thy captaine kinde For euermore in Limbo lake Be sure thou shalt it finde But if like Christs disciple sound Thy crosse thou wilt indure In heauenly wealth thou shalt abound And lasting ioy procure Alas you runne your course in vaine You loose your heauenly crowne Returne to Noes Arke againe Or else you néedes must drowne Conuert all erring hearts O Lord Thy louing Spouse defend That we alwayes with her accord And so make vp and end Finis Deo gratias