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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19420	The mirror of martyrs in a short vieuu lively expressing the force of their faith, the feruency of their loue, the wisedome of their sayings, the patience of their suffrings, etc. : with their prayers and preparation for their last farevvell : whereunto is added two godly letters written by M. Bradford, full of sweet consolation for such as are afflicted in conscience.	Cotton, Clement.; Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.	1613 (1613)	STC 5848; ESTC S756	48,602	243

changed even from death to life saying Now I thank God I am strong and passe not what man can doe vnto mee So went hee to the stake to his fellowes againe who all suffred together most joyfully Roger Holland HOLLAND having leaue giuen him to speake after sentence pronounced by BONER Bishop of LONDON vttered these words I told you even now that your authoritie was from God and that by his sufferance you doe these things and now I tell you God hath heard the prayers of his servants which hath beene poured out with teares for his afflicted Church which daily you persecute as now ye doo vs. But this I dare be bold in God to say which by his spirit I am mooued to speake that God will shorten your hand of cruelty that for a time you shal not molest his Saints and this shall you in short time well perceiue my deere brethren to bee most true for after this day in this place shall there not be any by him Boner he meanes put to the tryall of fire and Faggot And after that day was there never any that suffred in Smithfield for the testimonie of the Gospell God be thanked WIlliam Pickes somewhat before his apprehension went into his Garden and tooke with him a Bible of Rogers translation where hee sitting with his face towards the South reading on the said Bible suddenly fell downe vppon his Booke betweene 11 and 12 a clocke at noone 4 drops of fresh blood not knowing from whence they came Then he seeing the same was sore astonished and could by noe meanes learne from whence they should fall and wiping out one of the drops of blood with his finger called his wife said In the vertue of God wife what meâ—neth this Will the Lord haue 4 Sacrifices I see well enough the Lord will haue blood His will be done and giue mee grace to abide the triall Afterward hee looked dayly to be apprehended of the Papists which came to passe accordingly Prests Wife ONe PRESTS Wife of Exeter beeing asked of the Bishop whether she had an husband childreÌ„ or not answered I haue an husband and Children and I haue them not So long as I was at libertie I refused neither husband nor children but standing heere as I doe in the cause of Christ and his truth where I must eyther forsake Christ or my husband I am content to sticke onely to Christ my spirituall Husband and to forsake th' other Beeing oft-times offred money to relieue her necessities shee would for the most part refuse it saying That she was going to a Countrey where Money beares no Masterie Elizabeth Yong. ELIZABETH YONG beejng committed to close prison the keeper was charged by Doctor MARTIN in her hearing to giue her one day bread an other day Water to which shee made this answere Sir If you take away my meat God I trust will take away my hunger Iohn Cardmaker MR. CARDMAKER disputing with one about the Real presence asked the partie whether the Sacrament whereof he spake had a beginning or no. Which hee affirmed The sayd M r. CARDMAKER thus inferred therevppon If the Sacrament sayd hee as you confesse haue a beginning and an ending then it cannot be God for GOD hath neither beginning nor ending and so willing him to note it well hee departed from him Iohn Bradford MR. BRADFORD beejng solicited by one PERCIVALL CRESVVEL to make sute for him after many words said Cres. I pray you let me labor for you Brad. You may do what you will Cres. But tell me what sute I should make for you Brad. Forsooth that that you will doe doe it not at my request for I desire nothing at your hands If the Queene will giue me life I will thanke her If she will banish me I will thanke her If shee will burne me I wil thanke her If shee will condemne mee to perpetuall prison I will thanke her Â¶ Out of a Letter of Bradfords to CraÌ„mer Ridley and Latimer THis day I thinke or to morrow at the vttermost Hearty HOOPER sincere SAVNDERS and trusty TAYLOR end their course and receiue their Crowne The next am I which hourely looke for the porter to open mee the gates after them to enter into the desired rest Cranmer Archbishop SVch was the patience mildnes of that worthy Martyr Thomas Cranmer towards his enemies that it was grown to a common proverb Doe my L. of Canterbury a shrewd turne theÌ„ you may be sure to haue him your friend for your labor while you liue Laurence Saunders Â¶ Out of a Letter written to his wife TO number the mercies of God vnto me in perticular were to number the drops of water which are in the Sea the sands on the shore the starres in the skie O my deere wife and ye the rest of my friends rejoyce with mee I say reioyce with thanksgiving for this my present promotion in that I am made worthy to magnifie my God not onely in my life by my slow mouth vncircumcised lippes bearing witnes vnto his truth but also by my blood to seale the same to the glory of my GOD and confirmation of his true church And as yet I testify vnto you that the comfort of my sweet Christ doth driue from my fantasie the feare of death But if my deere Husband Christ do for my tryall leaue mee alone a little to my selfe alas I know in what case I shall bee then but if for my proofe hee doe so yet am I sure he will not be long or farre from mee Though hee stand behind the wall and hide himselfe as Salomon sayth in his misticall song yet will hee peepe in by a crest to see how I doe Hee is a very tender hearted Ioseph though he speke roughly to his brethren and handle them hardly yea threaten greeuous bondage to his best beloved Beniamin yet can hee not contain himselfe from weeping with vs and vpon vs with falling on our necks and sweetly â—issing vs Such such a brother is our Christ vnto all c. Â¶ Out of another Letter to his wife WE be shortly to be dispatched hence to our good Christ Amen Amen Wife I would haue you to send mee my Shirt you know wherevnto it is consecrated let it be sowed downe on both sides and not open O my heauenly Father looke vpon me in the face of thy Christ or else I shall not bee able to abide thy countenance such is my filthines He will doe so and therefore I will not be affrayd what sin death hell and damnation can do against me Â¶ Out of a Letter written to M. ROBERT GLOVER the same morning hee was burned OH deare Brother whome I loue in the Lord being loved also of you in the Lord be merrie and rejoyce for mee now ready to goe vppe to that mine jnheritance which I my selfe jndeede am most vnworthy of but my deare Christ is worthy who hath purchased the same for me with so deare a

present so admired him that their eies were no lesse thorowly occupied in beholding him theÌ„ their eares gaue place to the hearing of his prayers At his departing the chaÌ„ber hee made in like sort a prayer in which hee vehemently desired of God that his wordes might not bee spoken in vaine Â¶ His behauiour at his death MR. Bradford coÌ„ming to the stake fell flat vpon his face praying the space of one minute of an hower the Sheriffe willed him to make an end because the presse was great at that word standing vpon his feet he tooke a Fagot in his hand and kissed it and so likewise the Stake so putting off his rayment he went to the Stake holding vp his hands and casting vp his countenance to heaven sayd thus O England EnglaÌ„d repeÌ„t thee of thy sins repent thee of thy sins c. To the young man that suffered with him hee sayd Be of good comfort Brother for we shall haue a merry Supper with the Lord this night and spake no more wordes that any man heard but jmbracing the Reeds sayd thus Straight is the way and narrow is the gate that leadeth vnto life eternall and fewe there be that find it M. William Tims WIlliam Tims being convented before Bonner Winchester Tims said the Bishops thou hast a good fresh spirit it were well if thou had'st learning to thy spirit Yea my Lords sayd TIMS and it were well also that as you bee Learned men so yee had a good Spirit to your learning Bishop Latimer REuerend LATIMER writes thus to Bishop RIDLEY Lo Sir I haue blotted your papers and play'd the foole egregiously but so I thought it better then not to fulfill your request at this time Pardon me and pray for me pray for me pray for me I say For I am sometimes so scarefull that I could creepe into a mouse hole Sometimes God doth visit me againe with his Comforts So he is comming and going comming and going to teach me to know mine owne infirmitie that I might thanke him who is worthy least I should rob him of his glorie as many doe and almost all the world fare yee well Â¶ The 3 requests which Father Latimer was wont to make THe first was that as GOD had appointed him to be a preacher of his word so also he would giue him grace to stand to his doctrine vnto the death and that he might giue his heart blood for the same The second was that GOD of his mercie would restore his Gospell to Enggland once againe and these words once againe once againe hee did so inculcate and beat into the eares of the Lord as though hee had seene god face to face and would haue no nay His third request was for the Lady ELIZABETH our late Soueraigne whoÌ„ in his prayer hee was wont to name euen with teares begged of God that shee might liue to be a comfort to this comfortlesse Realme Bishop Ridley RIDLEY writes thus in a Letter to Bradford wee looke euery day to be called on I weene I am the weakest many waies of our company and yet I thanke our Lord God and heauenly Father through Christ that since I heard of our deere Brother ROGERS departing and his stout Confession of Christ and his truth euen vnto death mine heart blessed be God reioyced so in it that since that time I say I never felt any lumpishnesse nor heauinesse of heart as I grant I haue felt sometimes before O good Brother Bradford blessed bee God for thee and blessed be the time that euer I knew thee Iohn Rogers MAISTER ROGERS that Morning hee should be burned being in a sound sleepe was hardly awaked with much shogging wheÌ„ the keepers wife came sodainely vp to giue him warning of his burning At length beeing awaked and bid to make hast Nay then sayd hee and if it be so I shall not need to tye my points The Sunday before hee suffred hee dranke to M. HOOPER being then in a Chamber vnderneath him in Newgate and bad them commend him to him and to tell him that there was never little fellow would better sticke to a man then he would sticke to him supposing they should haue beene burned together Laurence Saunders MR. SAVNDERS at the time of his first examination before STEVEN GARDINER reporto his bed-fellow that lay with him the night following that in the time of his examination he was so wonderfully comforted that not onely in his spirit but also in body hee receiued a certaine tast of that holy Communion of Saints whilst a most pleasant refreshing issued from euery part and member of his body vnto the seat of the heart and from thence did ebbe and flow to fro vnto all the parts againe In a Letter to his Wife faine would this flesh make strange of that which the spirit doth imbrace Oh Lord how loth is this loytring sluggard to passe foorth into Gods path It fancieth forsooth much feare of fraybugs and were it not for the force of Faith which pulleth it forwards by the raines of Gods most sweet promise and hope which pricketh on behind great aduenture there would be of fainting by the way But blessed euerlastingly blessed be that heauenly Father of ours who in his Christ our sufficient Sauiour hath vouchsafed to shine in our hearts by the light of his knowledge in the face of Iesus Christ. His Wife comming to visit him in prison was forbidden to enter the prison by reason whereof the keeper tooke the little babe shee had in her armes and caried him to his Father LAVRENCE SAVNDERS seeing him reioyced greatly saying that hee esteemed more of such a boy then if 2000 pound should be giuen him And to the standers by which praysed the goodlinesse of the child he sayd what man fearing God would not loose this life presently rather then by preserving it heere hee should adiudge this boy to be a bastard and his wife an Whore and him-sefe an Whoremonger yea were there no other cause why a man of my estate should loose his life yet who would not giue it to avouch this child to be legitimate and his mariage to be lawfull and holy Beeing come to the stake where hee was burned hee fell prostrate to the grouÌ„d and prayed And rysing vppe againe hee tooke the stake in his armes to which he should be chained and kissed it saying Welcome the Crosse of Christ Welcome euerlasting life Robert Glouer Gen. MR. GLOVER a day or twoo before hee should bee burnt felt his heart so lumpish and heavy that hee found in himselfe no aptnes not willingnesse to die but rather a dulnesse of Spiritfull of much discomfort to beare the bitter Crosse of Martyrdome ready now to bee layd vppon him Wherevpon fearing in himselfe least the Lord had vtterly withdrawen his wonted favour from him he made his moane to one AVGVSTINE BERNHERE his deere friend signifying vnto him how earnestly hee had praied vnto the Lord and yet could receiue

no motion nor sence of any comfort from him To whome the sayd Austen answering desired him patieÌ„tly to waite the Lords leisure howsoeuer his present feeling was and to play the man nothing doubting but the Lord in due season would satisfie his desire with plentie of Consolation whereof hee sayd hee was right certaine and sure and therefore desired him whensoeuer any feeling of GODS heavenly mercies should begin to touch his heart that hee would giue him some signe thereof The next day when the time of his Martyrdome was come and as hee was going to the stake come to the sight of it albeit all the night before prayjng for comfort and courage hee felt no answere of his praier sodainely he was so mightily replenished with the comfort of Gods holy Spirit and heavenly joies that hee cried out clapping his hands to Austen sayjng these words hee is come Austen hee is come hee is come and that with such joy and alacritie as one seeming rather to bee risen from some deadly danger to liberty of life then as one passing out of this world by any paines of death M. Iohn Lambart IOHN LAMBART having his nether parts consumed with fire lifting vp such hands as hee had and his fingers ends flaming with fire cryed to the people None but Christ None but Christ. Adam Damplip THIS good man beejng advertised by his keeper that his execution drew neere was never seen to quaile but was as merrie and eate his supper that night as chearefully as ever hee did in all his life at which his keeper and the rest of the prisoners wondring asked him how hee could take such newes so chearefully Ah my Maisters sayth he doe yee thinke I haue beene thus long Gods prisoner in the Marshalsey and haue not yet-learned to die Yes yes I doubt not but God will strengthen me therein Kerby Martyr ONE KERBY beeing councelled by M. WINKFIELD to pittie himselfe and to take no more vppon him then hee should bee able to performe the fire saith hee is hot the terrour is great the paine wil be extreame and life is sweet To whom KERBY answered M. WINKFIELD be at my burning and you shall say there standeth a Christian Souldier in the fire For I know that Fire and Water Sword and all other things are in the haÌ„ds of God who will suffer no more to bee layd vppon vs then hee will giue strength to beare Thomas Bilney MR. THOMAS BILNEY beeing put in mind that though the fire which he should suffer the next day should be of great heat vnto his body yet the comfort of GODS spirit should coole it to his euerlasting comfort and refreshing At those words putting his finger towards the flame of the candle theÌ„ burning before them as also hee diuers times did and feeling the heat thereof O sayd hee I feele by experience and haue knowne it long by Philosophy that fire by gods ordinance is naturally hot but yet I am perswaded by Gods holy word and by th' experience of some spoken of in the same that in the flame they felt no heat and in the fire they felt no consumption And I constantly beleeue that howsoeuer the stubble of this my body shal be wasted by it yet my Soule and Spirit shall be purged thereby A paine for the time after which notwithstanding followeth vnspeakeable Ioy. And then entreated notably vpon the first and second verses of the 43 Chap. of Isaias which senteÌ„ces for the joy coÌ„fort some of his friends tooke in them caused them to be faire written out the comfort whereof they left not to their dyjng day The sayd BILNEY beeing visited by certain of his frieÌ„ds the night before he suffred they found him eating an Alebrew with such a cherefull heart and quiet minde as made them wonder thereat sayjng they were not a little glad to see him at that time so cheerefully to refresh himselfe To whome hee made this answere Oh sayd he I follow the example of the Husbandmen in the Countrie who hauing a ruinous house to dwell in doe yet bestow cost as long as they remaine in it to vphold the same And so do I now with this ruinous house of my body refreshing the same as you see with these good creatures of God Iames Baynam THis BAYNAM as hee stood at the stake in the midst of the flaming fire which fire had halfe consumed his armes and his legges hee was heard to speake these words O yee Papists Behold yee looke for Miracles and heere yee may see a Miracle for in this fire I feele no more paine then if I were in a bed of down but it is to me as sweet as a bed of Roses Henry Voes THe like speach I finde of a young man burnt at Bruxels who when the fire was kindled at his feet sayd me thinks you strew Roses vnder my feete Hugh Laverocke THis Laverocke a lame Creple IOHN APPRICE a blind man being chained both of them to the stake LAVERCOCK casting away his Crutch and comforting his fellow Martyr fayd Be of good comfort my brother for my L. of London is our good Phisition Hee will shortly cure vs both thee of thy blindnes and me of my lamenesse William Hunter WILLIAM HVNTER appreÌ„tice of the age of 19 yeares standing at the stake sayd Son of God shine vppon me and jmediately the Son in the Element shone out of a darke cloud for it was a glomie day so full in his face that hee was constrained to turne his face an other way The sayd WILLIAM HVNTER beeing brought downe from London to be burnt remained by the way two dayes at Burntwood whether his Father and Mother came to comfort him who heartely desired of GOD that hee might coÌ„tinue in the good way hee had begun vnto the end and his mother sayd vnto him that shee was glad shee was euer so happy as to beare such a Sonne who could find in his heart to loose his life for Christs sake Then said WILLIAM to his mother For my little paine which I shall suffer which is also but for a moment Christ hath promised me Mother saith he a Crowne of life And may not you bee glad of that Mother With that his Mother kneeled downe on her knees sayjng I pray GOD strengthen thee my Sonne vnto the end And I thinke thee as well bestowed as any Child that euer I bare At which words M. HIGBED one that was then to suffer for the same cause tooke her in his armes sayjng I rejoyce much to see you in this mind and you haue good cause so to doe Robert Samuel MR. ROBERT SAMVEL Minister was kept in streight prison by the Bishops Chancellor of NORVVICH Wherein hee was chained boult vpright to a great post in such sort that standing only on tip-toe hee was faine to stay vp the whole poyse of his body thereby And to make amends they added a far greater torment keeping him without meat and drinke whereby

vppon mee haue mercie vpon me for thy deere Sonne our Saviour Christs sake in whom I confesse onely to bee all salvation and justification and that there is none other meane nor way nor holinesse in which or by which any man can be saved in this world This is my faith which I beseech men heere to beare witnes off Then sayd hee the Lords Prayer and so made an end Fier beeing set vnto him and burning therein he cried thrise with a loud voice O Sonne of GOD haue mercy vpon mee O Sonne of GOD receiue my soule and so his speach beeing taken from him hee spake no more lifting vp notwithstanding his stumpe with his other arme as long as he could Â¶ Here followeth two worthy and godly Letters full of heavenly consolation written by that holie man of God M. Iohn Bradford Martyr fit for all such to read and obserue as feele in them a wounded spirit Â¶ The first Letter written to Mistres H. a godly Gentlewoman comforting her in that common and godly sorrow which the feeling and sence of sinne worketh in Gods children I Humblie and heartilie praye the everlasting good God and Father of mercie to blesse and keepe your hart and mind in the knowledge and the loue of his truth and of his Christ through th'jnspiration working of the holy spirit Amen Although I haue no doubt but that you prosper and goe forwards daily in the way of Godlinesse more and more drawing towards perfection and haue no need of any thing that I can write yet because my desire is that you might be more fervent and persevere vnto the end I could not but write something vnto you beseeching you both often and diligentlie to call vnto your mind as a meane to stirre you hervnto yea as a thing which god most straightly requireth you to belieue that you are the beloued of God and that hee is your deare Father in through for Christ his deaths sake This loue and tender kindnesse of God towards vs in Christ is aboundantlie herein declared in that he hath to the godly worke of Creation of this world made vs after his jmage redeemed vs being lost called vs into his church sealed vs with his marke and signe Manuel of Baptisme kept and conserved vs all the daies of our life fedde nowrished defended and most mercifullie chastised vs and now hath kindled in our hearts the sparkles of his feare faith loue and knowledge of his Christ truth and therefore we lament because wee can lament no more our vnthankefulnesse our frailenes our diffidence and wavering in things whereof we should be most certain All these things we should vse as meanes to confirme our faith of this that God is our God and Father and to assure vs that he loueth vs as our Father in Christ to this end I say should we vse the things before touched especiallie in that of all things God requireth this faith and perswasion of his Father by goodnesse as his chiefest seruice For before he aske any thing of vs he saith I am the Lord thy God giuing himselfe and all he hath to vs to be our own And this he doth in respect of himselfe of his owne mercie truth and not in respect of vs for then were grace no more grace In consideration wherof when he saith Thou shalt haue none other Gods but mee thou shalt loue mee with all thy heart c. Though of dutie wee are bound to accomplish all that he requireth and are culpable and guiltie if wee doe not the same yet he requireth not these things further of vs then to make vs more in loue and more certaine of this his covenant that hee is the Lord our GOD. In certaintie whereof as he hath giuen this world to serue our need and commoditie so hath he giuen vs his son Christ Iesus and in Christ himselfe to be a pledge and gage wherof the Holie Ghost doth now and then giue vs some tast and sweet feeling and smell to our eternall ioye Therefore as I said because God is your Father in Christ and requireth of you straightly to belieue it giue your selfe to obedience although you doe it not with such feeling as you desire First must faith goe before and then feeling will follow If our jmperfection frailty many evils should bee occasions whereby Satan would haue vs doubt as much as in vs lyeth let vs abhorre that suggestion as of all others most pernicious for so indeed it is For wheÌ„ we stand in doubt whether God bee our Father or no we cannot bee thankfull to God we cannot heartily pray or thinke any thing we do acceptable to God we cannot loue our neighbours and giue ouer our selues to care for them and doe for them as we should do and therfore SataÌ„ is most busie hereabouts knowing full wel that if we doubt of gods eternall sweet mercies in Christ wee cannot please God or doe any thing as we should to man Continually casteth he into our memories our jmperfection frailty folly and offences that we shold doubt of gods mercie and fauour towards vs. Therefore my good Sister we must not bee sluggish herein but as Satan laboreth to loosen our faith so must we labour to fasten it by thinking on the promises and covenant of god in Christs bloud namelie that God is our God with all that ever he hath which Covenant dependeth and hangeth vpon Gods owne goodnes mercie and truth onely and not on our obedience and worthines in any poynt for then should we never bee certaine Indeed God requireth of vs obedience and worthines but not that thereby wee might be made his childreÌ„ and he our Father but because he is our Father and wee his children through his own goodnes in christ therfore requireth he faith and obedience Now if we want this obedience worthinesse which hee requireth should wee therefore doubt whether he bee our Father Nay that were to make our obedience worthines the cause and so to put Christ out of place for whose sake God is our Father But rather because hee is our Father and wee feele our selues to want such things as he requireth wee should be stirred vppe to an holy blushing and shamfastnesse because wee are not as wee should bee and therevpon should wee take occasion to go to our father in prayer on this manner Deare Father thou of thine owne Mercie in Christ Iesus hast chosen me to bee thy child and therefore thou would'st I should be brought into thy Church and faithfull company of thy children wherein thou hast kept me hitherto thy name bee praised therefore Now I see my selfe to want faith hope loue c. which thy children haue and thou requirest of me wherethrough the deuill would haue me doubt yea vtterly to despaire off thy Fatherly goodnesse favour and mercie Therefore I come to thee as to my merciful father through thy deare Sonne Iesus Christ and pray thee to helpe me

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