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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00308	A moste pythye and excellent epistell to anymate all trew Christians vnto the crosse of Chryste, translated out off ffre[n]che [sic] into ynglyshe by Robert Pownoll. With a preface to the reader.	Pownall, Robert, 1520-1571.	1556 (1556)	STC 10432; ESTC S112251	47,005	114

I beseche you ys a sholler abone his master or a seruāt greater then his lorde whom he seruethe Or rather ought not the skoller to be contented when as he ys intreated as his master and the seruant as his lo●de Gyve eare I praye to a worthy sentēce that a certayne christean hath spoken in oure tyme. O saruantes do ye thynke that it behoue the you to rest and take youre ease when as the lorde dothe trauaylle take payne Truly all the faughfull seruantes and good christeans that were in the tyme off Iesus christ and also syns his deathe haue had no reste but haue all wayes trabyled they haue all byn persecuted as was theyr master wheroff he warned them also beforre hande Marh 10. Mar. 13. saynge yff they haue persecuted me even so wyll they persecute you Wherfor yff the worlde dyd make warre agaynst the master ys it reason that we his seruantes lyve 〈◊〉 peace and pleasure Or rather ys it possible that we should not suffer seynge the master hath suffred Who euer knewe the members in healthe the hea de sycke who euer harde off any shuche shynge And forther more yff the prynce hym selfe go vnto the warres for the comen wealthe off his contrye ys he not alto gyther a cowarde and a dastard that sekethe hys ease at home and wyll not accompany his prince who willyngly de the abandon hym selfe to emynēt danger for the vtilite off the comen wealthe Bow myche more yff the sonne off God Ebr. 12. who ys oure only prince be in his owne person in the batayll armed at all poyntes are we fayghfull seruantes are we worthy soldiours are we trew christeans yff we do not accompany hym And yff all ouer companyons be about oure prince berynge the brounte off the battayll with hym and we tarrynge behynde do we not meryte to be erpulsed his bāde felowsbyppe to be rased on t off the boke off lyffe and to be reprobated and accursed for euer Truly we deserue no thynge els and then so shall it happen vnto vs. Barken I besyche you what the angell off the lorde God sayeth in the boke off the iudges Curse ye the Lyte of Meros sayeth the angell of the lorde curse the inhabiters therof by cause they came not forthe to helpe the lorde neyther to helpe the myghty Here may ye se a most certayne malediction and cursse vpon shuche as are slacke and neclegent to assyst the lorde in the tyme off tribulation In tyme past also when Gedeon made warre agaynst the Madianites he lefte be hynde hym and dyd not call the men off Ephraim to assyst hym wher for they were grevouslye offended with hym Iudg. 7. kendlyd in shuche indignation that it wanted lytell that they had not oultraged dystroyed hym Why hast thow serued vs thus sayed they that thow calledest vs not with the whē thow wentest to fyght with the Madianites Ye may se that the men of Ephraim dyd not desyre to tarry at home seke theyr ease when as theyr captayne Gedion with his armye was in perryll and in danger off the ennymes Lykwyse we reade in the boke off Samuel 2. Sam. 11 that when David kynge off Ierusalē was aduertised that Harsabe the wyffe off Vryas was with childe He sent vnto his cheffe captayne Ioab commanded hym to send him Vryas who was as thē in the campe amongest the other captaynes soldiours off the kynge When Vryas was come and after the kynge had inquyred off him the estate off his armye he sayd to Vryas go into thy howsse washe thy fette And Vryas as sayeth the hystorye departed out of the kynges howsse and there followed hym a seruyce ffrom the kynges table But Vryas slepte at the gate off the kynges pallace with other off his lordes seruantes and went not downe into his howsse off the which thynge when kynge Dauid was informed he sayed to Vryas are not thow come frō the fylde why then doest not thow go downe into thy howsse But now I besyche you brytheren gyve eare and consyder dylygently the worthy answer off Vrias the which truly ys worthy off perpetuall cōmendation and neuer to be forgottē But what sayde he The arck off God Israell Iuda dwell in the tētes sayeth he my lord Ioab and the seruantes off my lorde lye vpon the face of the earthe and shall I then go into myn howsse to eate and dryncke to lye with my wyffe for thy healthe and for the healthe of thy Soule I wyll not do this thynge O moste excellent whorthy and vertious man O constant mynde neuer werye off troble and payne O saynge neuer to be forgotten For he wold not take his case when it was tyme to travayll but wolde go with the rest beare his parte off the burden Ys it lawfull thē for vs brytherin to seke oure ease and to refuse to suffer seynge that all oure companyons haue suffred and do suffer also our only hedd Iesus Christ with them There ys no apparant excuse why we shoulde do so Iphe 2.4 Iom 12. Wherfor David in his tyme spekynge in the person off Christe off his mystycall bodye that ys to saye of vs he sayd I am ordayned to be wypped and beaten And. S. Peter in his fyrst epistell sayeth the lyke 1. Pet. 2. Yff for well doynge sayeth he ye suffer wronge and take it pacyently then ys there thanke with God for there vnto veryly were ye called Consyder ernestly derely beloved thesse 2. sentences Dauid affirmethe that we are ordayned to be afflicted and G. Peter sayethe that we are called to suffer Namly to suffer paciently that for ryghtousnes sake Math. 5. Ys there any excuse then why we should refuse paciently to suffer for ryghtousnes sake seynge we are there vnto ordayned and called of god Ought we to refuse wyllyngly to drynke off that cupe that God our father hath ordayned and gyven vnto der that were no perfyte obedience to the diuine ordynance Math. 2● That were no dyrecte followynge off oure vocation That were no trew expression off the example off the sonne off God oure only hope 1 Tim. 1. Ti●● 2 That were no thynge confirmable vnto this order of prayer Oure father thy will be done To conclude that were no waye to declare oute selfes to be christeans but rather to manyfest our selves enymes and aduersa●yes to the most holy and tyghtons wyll off God Yea it were no thynge els but dyrectly to mourmure agaynst God It ys written in the boke of Iudgethe how that thosse that resayved not the temptatione Iudg. 8. with the fere off God but put them selfe forthe with vnpaciencye and murmorynge agaynst God peryshed off the dystroyer and were slayne off serpentes Do we thynke then to escape the extermination and ponyshment off God yff we become murmorers repyners agaynst his determinate ordinance pleasure In sekynge