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A04809	An epistle [s]ent to divers [pa]pistes in England prouing [th]e Pope to bee the beast in the [1]3 of the Reuelations, and to be the man exalted in the temple of God, as God, Thess. 2.2 ... / by F.K.	Kett, Francis, d. 1589.	1585 (1585)	STC 14944.5; ESTC S2164	14,613	51

not bee afrayd for any euill tidinges for his heart standeth fast and beleeueth in the Lord. Psal 112. The coppy of an Epistle sent to English pilgrems and papists 1584. By F. K. I Am moued by the royall law of God which is to loue our neighbour as our selus and to doe good to our enemies to write to intreate you my desired to the truth ●f the Gospell to heare and reade the wordes ●f exhortation vnder your duety in the feare ●f God and reuerence to his Gospell hoping ●hat the sweete motion and tendernes of your ●ules health will moue you hereūto Wherin ●●rst I beseech you to measure the breadth ●●●ength and deapth of your inward man and ●he path of your saluation by the ballaunce of ●he pure Scriptures and not by traditions ●●d decrees seing that the Scriptures are a●●e to make you wise to saluation Tim. 2.3 through ●ith in Christ Iesus Therefore seing that ●●w is the accepted time yea now be the dayes 〈◊〉 health in which Christ Reu. 3. according to Iohn ●●th set the doore of his Gospell open it is high time that you wake out of sleepe and enter with the bridegrome while the doore is op●● lest you fall into strong delusion and stum●●● at noone day and looke for light when 〈◊〉 darknes For which cause say clearly am●●● your selfes Vp let vs go to our deare count●● of England and walke in the light of 〈◊〉 Lord and become true citizens with all fa●●●full alleigance to her beloued Maiesty 〈◊〉 so vndoubtedly and sincerely hath linked 〈◊〉 scepter to the scepter of Iuda For if thou d● desire Ezechias to raigne ouer Englād 〈◊〉 diligently walked in the law of the Lord 2. Cron. 29. ●●●ged his Realme of Idolatry set vp againe 〈◊〉 true worship of God and exhorted all his su●iects to follow the lawe of the Lord God t● behold blessed ELIZABETH the ●noynted of the Lord abounding in all 〈◊〉 giftes of vertue gouerning her Realme ●●cording to the purity of Gods word and tre●●● And if thou desirest Iosias that most go●● King 2. Cron. 34. which walked so purely in the waye● 〈◊〉 the Lord that he declined neither on the 〈◊〉 hand nor on the right who when the book 〈◊〉 the lawe was deliuered vnto hym did not on●y cause the booke to bee red before hym but ●e hym selfe red it and all Idolatyr destroyed restored the true religion to his Kingdome Or if thou wouldest haue Iosophat that walked in the commaundements of the Lord 2. Cron. 27. and ●oued Gods word so intirely that he sent his Princes Leuites and Priestes to teach in all partes of Iuda which had the bookes of Gods lawe with them and went about in all the Ci●●es of Iuda and taught the people then consider in the dexterity of consciēce our worthy gouernesse Queene ELIZABETH how that her Maiesty is not inferior to any of them in amplifying the glory of God and spreading abroade of his word For whereas Esdras red the lawe of the Lord plainely and distinctly to the people and they gaue very earnest and diligent attendance to the hearing of it so our imperiall Princesse 2. Es●l 8. and vertuous Queene hath caused the word of God to bee plainely red and preached through all her Realme by many a faithfull Esdras that euery man may plainely heare it and reade it them selfes to their soules consolation Wh●● is it then that you seeke for beyond the Sea● Hath not God promised that his Gospell sh●●● be preached to all nations and to euery peop●● in their proper Landes Math. 24. What then hast th●● to doe being an Israelite to walke againe 〈◊〉 the streates of Egypt or to wander in th● way to Assiria Behould sayth the Lord wh● hast thou now to doe in the streate of Aegyp● to drinke foule water Ieremy 2. or what makest thou 〈◊〉 the way to Assiria to drinke water of t●● floud Thy owne wickednes shall reproue the● and thy turning away condemne thee A●● so ye English pilgrems what make yee in t● streates of Rome or in the way to Italy 〈◊〉 feare that your owne thoughts condemne y●● and your turning away will bring you to he●uy destruction vnlesse yee repent O ther●fore come away and turne to the treuth a●● be not thereof ashamed for the Lord kno●eth your secret thoughts with whom you m●●● not dissemble and halt betweene two opi●●ons but bee faithfull vnto your Soueraig● Queene and let King Dauid be your exāp●● who would by no meanes lay blouddy handes vpon King Saule his enemy being the Lords anoynted Wherefore yee English Romaines examine your selues try out the deapth of your conscience remember the dreadfull day of Iudgement and be no longer deceyued for loe how wreched your state is to flie the light of the Gospell to seperate your selues from your alleigāce to hope for a day by mischiefe Esay 30. Know yee not that it is a woe to forsake the counsell of God to seeke and sticke to the counsell of men and knowe yee not that the Lord sayth woe bee those shrinken children which take a web in hand but not after my will Then see what web is this of youres to trust in pardons indulgences to commit supplications to Saintes to hope to be reskewed out of the paynes of fayned purgatory by a masse to buylde true godlines vpon outward ceremonyes and solemnities and to hold the word of God in an vnknowne language Ephes 5. knowe yee not that Paule sayth that whatsoeuer is manifest is light how can you then hold in true conscience that such kind● of religion is the light when as they are not manifest by the scriptu●es Wherefore Paule exhorteth you not to walke in the vanitye of minde Ephes 4 blynded in vnderstanding and Christ counselleth thee to buy of h●m pure gold Reu. 3. and to anoynt thine eyes with eye salue that thou mayst see How then can the Latyne Seruice be to thee an eye-salue to see the truth of Goddes worde when as thow canst neyther reade it nor vnderstand it Is it not an vncertayne sounde to an ignorant eare which can cary no truth of edifying when it is propounded vnto vs that all thinges should be done to edifye Then no doubt but that it is Gods holy will that the scriptures should be in our mother language as a pretious eye-salu● in our house that we may be established 〈◊〉 Gods holy truth and not be deceaued Harke● therfore deare Countrymen and be carefully aduised and learne to be wise to that which is good and innocent to that is euill and fauour not the preceptes ordinaunces of me● more then the institutions of God For sayth Paule he that studieth to please men is no the seruaunt of God Galath 1. and the Gospel sayth he which I preach I receaued it not of men Therefore take heede how yee looke after the traditions of men and follow superstitions seing the word of your

AN EPISTLE ●ENT TO DIVERS ●●pistles in England prouing 〈◊〉 Pope to bee the Beast in the 〈◊〉 3. of the Reuelations and to be the man exalted in the Temple of God as God Thess 2.2 Whereby the true Church of God and the good profession of the Gospell is knowen from the euill ●●●y hereby haue beene conuerted of late by F.K. 〈…〉 ●●●igence to make thy election sure 〈◊〉 1. 〈…〉 ●n eternall life whereunto thou are called 〈◊〉 6. ●RINTED AT LONDON by Henry Marsh 158● TO THE MOST Reuerend father in God Iohn bishop of London long health and felicity in Iesus Christ BEing stirred vp most Reuerende father in God with the sweete exhortation of Paul who sayth in spirituall thinges I would not haue you ignoraunt but couet spirituall giftes and most chiefely for to prophesie which doth edefie exhort and cōfort I thought it good seeing the church of God tossed with stormes through the depenes of Sathan who roreth like a deuouring Lion and worketh the spirit of error in mens harts soweth tares among the wheat of the Lord to laboure in the vineyard of spirituall vnderstanding by the goodnes of the vnspotted Lambe who openeth the booke with the seuen seales wherein the whole state of his Church is reuealed in what case it shall stand from his assention till his comming in glory Touching which Reuelations with all the misteries of the Scripture I hauing written a booke at large called the golden closet and Key that vnlocketh heauenly misteryes and another called the glorious garland of mans glorification thought it good in the meane time hauing sent this epistle and others to diuers Papists in England touching whom a good worke by the grace of God is wrought to dedicate this same vnder your protection hopyng that as it hath done good to others by writing so by Print it may doe much more if it shall please you of your good fauoure and Heauenly giftes wherewith you are knowen to bee fruitfull among men to the glory of God and consolation of Soules and to the reward of your Heauenly calling in Iesus Christ to accept it Thus I doe cōmend your Lorship in my daily prayers to the keeping of the Almighty Your Lordships most humble to commaūd Francis Kett. An exposition who is the Beast in the 13. of the Reuel Iesus speede vs leade vs and feede vs. c. MY desired to the truth of the Gospell When I considered how great a wishe Paul doth insinuate towarde hym selfe as to bee Anathemy touching his body in respect to winne his brethren I am or else I ought to bee so much thereby stirred vp vpon the tendernes of loue as to offer some porcion to you and others of that good gift and tallent which the Lord hath gieuen me If by the grace of God it may please you to accept it sincerely and meekely that by that meanes the spirite of adoption standing at the doore of your heart may enter into your inward man and worke more redely that sweete motion in you as not to harden your heart when tha● you heare the voice of Gods holy truth I write not to molest your conscience an● minde but to walke with you in the way of persuasion trusting by the powred Gods word which is sharper then a tw● edged sword Heb. 4. and parteth the bone from the marrow the spirit from the soule● to persuade you by the intercession o● hym beyng a true mediator for euer who sitteth in heauen on the right han● of the Father before whom we must appeare in Iudgement to make an accomp● at the great and feareful day of the Lord that you will be so much contented b● the will of God as to deliberate with beter aduisement touching that sentence of S. Paul Philip. 2. who sayth worke out thy saluation with feare and trembling And also touching the sentēce of Peter Pet. 2. which sayth Vse all diligence to make thy election sure Wherein we are sufficiently counselled how much it standeth euery man in hād to looke to the sauing health of his soule which is so sweete and preciouse considering that there is a way to saluation and a way to perdition Timoth. 2.2 Therefore we ought deepely to consider of that sentence of Paul which sayth that if a man striue for a maistry hee is not crowned except hee striue lawefully For which cause I am moued in the tender kindnes which my soule beareth toward all soules to desire you in the springling of Christ his bloud that you will looke so carefully into your selfe as that you may bee sure by grace so to striue and ron as that you may win the crowne of eternall life Cor. 1.10 For S. Paul willeth vs to bee most vigilant when hee sayth you that seeme to stand take heede you fall not So that let not presumption or stifnes stop your eares from the truth and cary you away to vnknown ceremonies but first proceede with sincerity of hea●e and pure praiers offred vp to god intreating him to geeue you his wisedome according to S. Iames. Iames. 1. If any mā lacke wisedome let him aske it of God and he geueth it ask in fayth wauer not c. And with this order in heart examine your selfe for God knoweth the secrete motions of all mens heartes and then ponder what I write to you and I am persuaded in my fayth that you shall presently feele the spirite of adoption to moue your spirite and to leade you into all truth alwayes prouidyng in the examining of your owne conscience agaynst the flesh the world and the deuill which striue agaynst man to holde hym backe in the dungeon of darkenes by contrary resistance of minde through the spirite of error which is busy in all mens thoughtes Whereupon it standeth you and all vs the more in hand to looke to the foundation of our Saluation Cor. 1.3 lest that wee buyld vpon a straunge foundation or else doe buyld timber and strawe vpon the foundation which the Apostles ●aue layde and so vndiscretly ron with Nadab and Abihu Leu. 10. bringing straunge fire ●efore the Lord and so be in daunger of ●he Lordes consuming fire Wherefore ●et me persuade with you to vse no other ●yne then the golden rodde of the Gospell to measure your religion with all ●est that you leaning to much to traditions doe decline from the measure of the Gospell when as God sayd streightly to Moses Heb. 8. buildyng the tabernacle see that thou doest all thinges according to the pattern which was geuen thee And therfore Christian wisedome doth moue vs in the feare of the Lord to follow the very patern of the Gospell if wee minde to walke as children of the day professing the good and true profession In consideration whereof I hope that you will accept this my wryting as a sweete motion with examining the deepenes thereof to your consolation in a confirmed verity of a better profession then