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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16531	The vnbeliefe of St. Thomas the Apostle laid open for the comfort of all that desire to belieue. Whereunto is added a comfortable treatise for all that are afflicted in soule or body. The first armeth vs against despaire in the houre of death; the second against impatience vnder the crosse. By Nicholas Bound, Doctor in Diuinitie.	Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613.; Bownd, Nicholas, d. 1613. Treatise ful of consolation. aut	1628 (1628)	STC 3442; ESTC S113890	68,060	212

vnto Christ whē as hauing nothing that by any sight or feeling inward or outward might minister vnto thē any cōfort and therefore in such cases they are greatly discouraged and cast downe in themselues yet they holde out constantly in them to the end then the more like they are vnto Christ in his sufferings the more like shall they be vnto him in his glory For then is their faith the greatest when in this forlone estate of theirs as it may seeme they can pray vnto God as Christ did and seeke for all helpe and comfort from him and neuer leaue praying till God heare them as Christ continued in his prayer till an Angel was sent vnto him And in the meane time whatsoeuer becomes of them they with a quiet and meeke spirit resigne vp themselues wholly to his blessed will being contented whatsoeuer they desire that not their owne but Gods will may take place as Christ did when he said Father not mine but thy will be done And if they doe so that that affliction present of what nature and kind soeuer shall make an end of thē they can quietly and peaceably commend their soules and bodies euen themselues wholly liuing and dying into his blessed hands as Christ did also vpon the crosse when he was readie to giue vp the ghost beeing perswaded that nothing euer perished that was commited vnto his custodie according as he saith himselfe Those that thou gauest me ●oh 17.12 haue I kept and none of them is lost but the child of perdition that the Scripture might be fulfilled If we can thus doe though all this while we haue no feeling of any present comfort yet it may be truly said vnto vs as it was to the woman of Canaan who with many discouragements and without all sight or feeling of any fauour frō him pursued our Sauiour Christ with her prayers and would not giue ouer or take any repulse O woman great is thy faith and O man Math. 15 2● great is thy faith that doest thus whosoeuer thou art And we haue a worthy example of the truth of this in one of the Martyrs of our owne country and in the memory of mā as it is largely set out by M. Foxe in his laborious worke of the Acts and Monuments of the Church The effect of which storie shortly is this M. Robert Glouer of Couentry gentl. and Master of Artes in Cambridge was in the raigne of Q. Mary with many the seruants of God by the malicious practises of the Papists apprehended brought before the Bishop of the Diocesse for his faith and religion and after examination he was sent to prison where he receiued great comfort from the Lord from time to time as his afflictions did increase so did the comforts of the Lord abound till at the last by the permission of God for his further triall and comfort the Deuill did greatly assault him in prison by the consideration of his vnworthines to be counted in the number of those that should suffer for Christs sake which temptation of the enemie though he did constantly resist at the first yet after that he was condemned to death by the Bishop and was at the point to be deliuered out of this world it so happened that two or three daies before the time of his burning his heart being lumpish and destitute of all spirituall consolation and feeling of gods fauour he felt in himselfe no aptnes or willingnes but rather an heauines and dulnes of spirit full of much discomfort to beare that bitter crosse of Martyrdome readie now to be laid vpon him Whereupon he fearing himselfe least the Lord had vtterly withdrawn his woonted fauour from him made his moane to one M. Austen Bernher a minister a familiar friend of his signifying vnto him how earnestly he had praied day and night vnto the Lord and yet could receiue no motion nor sense of any comfort from him Vnto whome the said Austen answering againe willed and desired him patiently to wait the Lords pleasure and howsoeuer his present feeling was yet seeing his cause was iust and true he exhorted him constantly to sticke to the same and play the man nothing misdoubting but the Lord in time would visit him and satisfie his desire with plentie of consolation Whereof he saide he was right certen and sure and therefore desired him whensoeuer any such feeling of Gods heauenly mercies should begin to touch his heart that then he would shew some signification thereof whereby he might witnesse with him the same and so departed from him The next day when the time came of his martyrdome as he was going to the place and was now come to the sight of the stake although all the night before praying earnestly to God for strength and courage hee could finde none neither had any sight or taste of the fauour of God in himselfe sodenly he was so mightily replenished with Gods holy comfort heauenly ioyes that he could not smother it in himselfe but cried out clapping his hands to Austen and saying on this wise Austen he is come he is come c. and that with such ioy and alacritie as one seeming rather to be risen from some deadly daunger to libertie of life then one passing out of this world by any pains of death Here we see that great was his faith when he was willing to giue his bodie to be burnt for the testimonie of Christ and was now going to the stake to that ende though he had no feeling of Gods fauour then by any ioyes that he felt in himselfe He could neuer haue suffered thus for the truth if he had no faith if then he had died in this case without the sense of any speciall comfort he must needs haue died in the faith of Christ for which he did suffer and so hee should haue had faith yea very great faith not onely liuing but dying without any sense or feeling But I will come vnto an other example which though it be far more ancient in time yet is better knowne vnto vs as being recorded in the holy Scripture The patience of Iob as it is set downe as a patterne and cōmended to all men to follow so none can doubt of his faith also but that it was very great When he is thus nūbred among the faithfullest men that haue liued vpon the face of the earth Whē the land sinneth against me by committing a trespase Ezec. 14.13 then will I strech out mine hand vpon it and though these three men Noah Daniel and Iob were among them they should deliuer but their owne soules by their righteousnesse saith the Lord God When all that misery came vpō him that we read of in the Scripture as that in one day he lost seauen thousand sheepe Iob 1.3 three thousand camels fiue hundred yoake of oxen fiue hundred shee asses and all his sonnes and daughters died a violent death after a strange manner and in his owne