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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04926	A faythfull admonition made by Iohn̄ Knox, vnto the professours of Gods truthe in England whereby thou mayest learne howe God wyll haue his Churche exercised with troubles, and how he defendeth it in the same.	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1554 (1554)	STC 15069; ESTC S108127	51,531	126

teachers to be a burthen vnto thee whiche yf thou doest receaue allowe their doctrine be thou wel assured his great wrath cōmeth shortly after to thy distructiō this is the accustomed ordre of God when he is mynded to destroy First he sendeth lyeng spirites in the mouthes of their prestes or prophetes which delyted in lyes then suffred he them to be disceaued by the same to their destruccion as he dyd wyth Achab. Be warned yet by this and other suche good and true bokes gentel reader so shal thou be sure to be kept in sauegarde in y e tyme of the plague to come wherein y u shalt also fynde moche cōforte It wil moue y e to styck fast to y e trueth of gods word to flee frō the wicked ydolatrie of the abhominable masse which doth no more saue thee frō hurte then dyd the painting of deuelysh Iesabel saue her frō death when she was head long hurled out at a wyndow at the cōmaundement of Iehu Grace mercy and peace frō God the Father of oure Lorde Iesus Christ with the perpetual cōforte of the holy Ghost be with you for euer and euer So be it HAuynge no lesse desyre to comforte suche as now be in trouble within the realme of Englande and spe cially you for many cause●… moste deare to me then hath the natural father to ease the grief payne of his dearest childe I haue conside red with my selfe what argument or parcel of Goddes Scriptures was moste conueuient and mete to be en treated for your consolation in these moste darck and dolorous dayes And so as for the same purpose I was turnyng my boke I chaunsed to se a note in the Margine written thus in Latyn Videat Anglia Let Englande beware Which note whē I had considered I founde that the matter written in my boke in Latin was this Seldome it is that God worketh any notable worke to the comforte of his Churche but that trouble feare and laboure commeth vpō suche as God hath vsed for his seruauntes workemen And also tribulatiō most cōmonlye foloweth that Churche where Christe Iesus is moste truely preached This note was made vpon a place of Scripture written in the fourtenth Chapter of S. Mathewes gos pel Which place declareth that after Christ Iesus had vsed the Apost les as ministers and seruauntes to fede as it had ben by their handes fyue thousand men beside women childrē with fiue Barley ●…ues and two fisshes He sent them to the sea cōmaunding them to passe ouer before him to the other syde Whiche thing as they attempted to obey and for the same purpose did trauail and rowe forth in the Sea the night approched the wynde was contrarie the vehement and raging storme arose was like to ouerthrowe their poore Bote and them When I had considered as doloure and my simplicitie would suffre the circumstāces of the text I began to reken and aske accompt of my selfe and as god knoweth not without sorowe sobbes whether at any tyme I had ben so playne by my tunge as God had opened his holy wil and wisedome in y ● matter vnto me as myne owne penne and note dyd beare witnesse to my cōscience And shortly it came to my minde that the same place of Scripture I had entreated in youre presences what tyme God gaue oportunitie space that you should heare Goddes messenger should speake the wordes of eternal lyfe Wherfore I thought nothing more expedient then shortly to cal to mind againe suche thinges as thē I trust were touched Albeit peraduenture neither of me so plainly vttered neither of you so plainly perceaued as these moste dolorouse daies declare the same to vs. It shal not be necessary to entreat the texte worde by worde but of the hole summe to gather certaine notes obseruations which shal not farre disagre frō the estate of these daies it shal be sufficient And first it is to be obserued that after this ●…reat miracle that Christ had wrought he neither would retaine with him selfe the multitude of people whome he had fedde neither yet his disciples But the one he sent awaye euery man to returne to his place of accustomed residence the other he sent to the daunger of the Seas not as he that was ignoraūt what should chaunce vnto them but knowinge and forseing the tempest yea and appointinge the same so to trouble them It is not to be iudged that the onely and true pastoure would remoue and sende away from him the wandering and weake shepe nether yet that the only proui●…ē gouernour and guide woulde set out his rude warriours to so great a ieopardye without sufficient and moste iuste cause Why Christ remoued and sent awaye frō him the people the Euangelist S. John̄ declareth saying when Iesus knewe that they were come and to take hym vp that they myght make hym Kyng he passed secretly or alone to the mountaine Wherof it is playne ▪ what chieflye moued Christ to sende away the people from him because that by him they sought a carnal and worldly libertie regarding nothing his heauenlye doctrine of the kingdome of god his father which before he had taught and declared vnto thē plainly shewing them that suche as shuld folowe him must suffre for his names sake persecution must be hated of al men●… must deny them selues ●… must be sent forth as shepe amonge wolues But no parte of this doctrine pleased them or could entre into their hertes but their hole minde was vpon their bellies for suffising wherof they deuised and imagined that they wolde appoint and chose Christe Iesus to be their worldlye Kinge For he had power to multiplie bread at his pleasure Whiche vaine opinion and imagination perceaued by Christ Iesus he withdrew him selfe from their company to auoide al suche suspicion And to let theym vnderstand that no suche honoures dyd agre with his vocacion who came to serue and not to be serued And when this same people sought him againe hy sharply rebuked them because they sought him more to haue their bellies fed with corruptible meat then to haue their soules nourished with y e liuely bread that came downe from heauen And thus in y e people ther was iuste causes why Christ should withdraw him selfe from them for a tyme. Why the disciples should suffre that great daūger feare anguishe S. Marke in his Gospel plainly sheweth saying that theyr hertes wer blynded and therfore ●…dyd nether remember nor consyder the myracle of the looues That is albeit with their handes they had touched that bread by which so great a multitude was fed And albeit also they had gathered vp twelfe baskets full of that which remained of a few loo ues which before the miracle a boye was able to haue borne yet dyd they not rightly consider the infinite power of Christ Iesus by this his wōderful miracle And