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A68302	A most excellent and comfortable treatise, for all such as are any maner of way either troubled in minde or afflicted in bodie, made by Andrew Kingesmyl Gentleman, sometime fellowe of Alsolne Colledge in Oxforde. Whereunto is adioyned a verie godly and learned exhortation to suffer patiently al afflictions for the gospel of Christ Iesus. And also a conference betwixt a godly learned Christian [and] an afflicted conscie[n]ce: wherein, by the holy Scriptures the sleights of Satan are made manifest, and ouerthrowen: with a godly prayer thereunto annexed	Kingsmill, Andrew, 1538-1569.; Mills, Francis.	1577 (1577)	STC 15000; ESTC S107429	44,945	104

thus deuided Gods enemies the Philistims who had lyen long in wayte therfore shoulde snatche vp from both the parties the kingdome of Israel and not onely vtterly banishe Gods true religion from among the Israelites but also bring thē their countrey and their posteritie into most miserable bondage and thraldome and that to Gods enemies the most vile people and hated of all the world Dauid in all these perilous daungers of his owne lyfe losse of his kingdome vtter destruction of Gods people did not discourage himself but vnderstāding all this to be the worke of Gods owne hande acknowledging the true cause vnfainedly did perswade him self that the Lord after a time when his good wil should be woulde giue a cōfortable end to al these stormes and bitter pāgs His whole behauiour he himself describeth in a Psalme which is left in writing for vs to learne therafter how to behaue our selues in the like persecutions Whē he was fled from Ierusalem the priestes were departed frō him with the Arke of the Lords Couenaunt he went vpon mount Oliuet barefoote wept as he went and had his head couered and so did all the people that were with him And he made his mone vnto the Lord saying O Iehoua how are they encreased that trouble me how many are they that rise against me howe many are there that saye of my soule There is no helpe for him in his God Selah Wonder not though this good King with an heauie hearte and sorowfull cheare doeth lament and bewaile his dolorouse estate Woulde it not grieue a King when he thinketh of no such matter sodainly to be cast out of his Royall seate and brought in daunger of his lyfe and that by his owne naturall Sonne Can the displeasure of any enemie so much pearce the heart of a kinde father as the vnnaturall crueltie of the sonne to seeke his death of whom he himselfe had his life It grieued him no small deale to perceiue such as had bin his wise Counsailours whom he much trusted whose duetie it had bin with the spending of their owne liues to haue defended the common weale brought to good and quiet order both in matters of policie of Gods true religion to be the supporters and mainteiners of an hypocrite who had neither respect to Gods true honour nor yet consideration of duetie to his most honourable Father neither yet regarde to the prosperous weale of his natiue countrey But nothing of all these grieued him so much as this one thing the remembrance and true acknowledging in himselfe that he himselfe was the only cause of all these euils He called to his remembrance that these plagues fell vpon him sent from God whose worke it was and that for his sinnes which were the cause thereof and this made him weepe and mourne For so soone as the Prophet Nathan had warned him of his offence he cryed peccaui I haue sinned and afterward when hee sawe this grieuous and sodaine chaunge folowe he perceiued it came partly for his sinne by the worke of God and therefore submitted him self wholy to Gods will saying If I shall finde fauour in the eyes of the Lorde he will bring me againe and shew me both his Arke and the Tabernacle thereof but and the Lorde thus saye I haue no lust vnto thee behold here am I let him doe with mee what seemeth good in his eyes Thus the worthie man of God acknowledgeth his troubles to be of Gods hande his sinnes to be the cause and therefore humbly and faithfully submitteth himselfe to Gods ordering wel content to receiue whatsoeuer should be layd vpon him He assured himselfe that when he himselfe were most weakest then God would declare his strength for his owne glories sake and after he were reduced to a faithfull repentaunce by the correction of his mercifull Father then the rod should be cast into the fire This consideration of plagues both to priuate men particularly and also of Realmes whole common Wealthes is diligently to be weyed that as they come from God so haue they this ende that they tende partly to his owne glorie partly to our profit and amendement For although sinne is the generall cause wherefore all mankinde generally was is shal be molested with many and sundrie kindes of troubles and calamities yet the calamities afflictions are not to all kinde of men alike nor yet for one end and purpose For the wicked and reprobate are punished whipped of God to a farre other end and meaning then the godly and chosen children who are the true church of God the liuely mēbers of Christ such as shal be neuer separated frō God and his louing fauour in Christ Iesu These although they be neuer without trouble in this world but alwayes exercised vnder the crosse yet the cause and cōsideration why God will haue them thus exercised is either for the glorie and honour of his owne Name or the profite commoditie and exceeding benefit of them whom he thus afflicteth either els for both these considerations together for that there is no trouble that cōmeth to Christes church or any mēber therof which appeareth not plainly to redound to Gods glorie the profit of the afflicted if it be wel iustly cōsidered These two causes considerations doth the Scripture teach in all calamities of the church whether they be generall or particular which being wel marked will easily put out of the way this stūbling block wherat many stumble fal marueyling wherfore God wil suffer his word his chosen childrē thus to be vsed euil dealt withall The childrē of Israel were in Egypt most cruelly dealt withal 400. yeeres oppressed with most painfull labours most seruile exactions their infants slaine they cried vnto the Lord their griefs encreased for God had hardened Pharao his heart that he shoulde not ease or deliuer his people Wherefore did God thus afflict his people and stirred this cruell tyrant so grieuously to vexe thē truely for his own glorie their profit God rehearseth this cause and cōsideratiō in the scripture of the hard cruel hearts of the Egyptians towards his people The Egyptians shal know that I am the Lord and that I will deliuer my people by strong hand frō among thē For this purpose saith God to Pharao haue I raysed thee vp that in thee I may declare my power thorowout the whole world This profit they receiued the exercise of their faith the triall of their patience and the confirming of their hope for deliueraunce which was not deceyued Thus S. Paul noteth and collecteth of this historie the one end to be Gods glorie for the honourable fame and renowme of his Name throughout the whole world and also the profit that the afflicted receiue which is the exercise of faith as he noteth of Moses and his parents to the Hebrues But much more plainly doth S. Paul note teach these two

A MOST Excellent and comfortable Treatise for all such as are any maner of way either troubled in minde or afflicted in bodie Made by Andrew Kingesmyl Gentleman sometime fellowe of Alsolne Colledge in Oxforde Whereunto is adioyned a verie godly and learned Exhortation to suffer patiently al afflictions for the Gospel of Christ Iesus And also a conference betwixt a godly learned Christian an afflicted consciēce wherein by the holy Scriptures the sleights of Satan are made manifest and ouerthrowen with a godly prayer thereunto annexed Imprinted at London by Christopher Barkar ANNO 1577. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER HAVING diuers papers and writings committed vnto me by a deare friend of myne whom it pleased God not long since after manie yeeres trauaile very profitably bestowed in the ministerie and preaching of the Gospell to call out of this miserable wretched and wicked world And finding amongst the said writings this Treatise and the Exhortation annexed thereunto I read both the one and the other all ouer to mine owne great profite and comfort I must needes confesse And therefore perswaded by mine owne experience in the reading of both these treatises that the publishing of them in print might be no lesse profitable and comfortable to many others then to my selfe I founde them I thought good not to holde them longer in my priuate custodie as things dead and buried with the Authours but to commit them to the Printer so to haue them communicated to this Church of England and as manie as vnderstand the Englishe to the prayse and glorie of God for his gratious giftes in the writers and for the comfort and instruction I doubt not of so many as shall reade them Of the Authour of the Exhortation I can say nothing more then that as I coniecture by that he writeth he liued in the late raigne of Q. Marie being then an exile in foraine partes for the Gospel which at that time also was banished from hence as touching the open profession thereof in any common and publike places And as for the matter of his Exhortation I shall not neede to say anie more in commendation thereof to stirre men vp to the reading of it then the bare title giuen to the same importeth which with the shortnesse of the Treatise it selfe may suffice to allure any godly and well disposed person to peruse the same As touching the Authour of the Treatise whose name I haue expressed though I could of him saye verie much to his great commendation and that of mine owne knowledge for that liuing together in one house we were long time and familiarlye acquainted Yet I will for some respectes forbeare to prayse him for his whole life and death referring thee to that which is briefly said of him and printed before in a litle booke of his entituled The view of mans estate c of which booke though by an other name him selfe maketh mention in this treatise and had I knowen so much before the impression thereof as I coulde not this comming so lately and long after to my handes it shoulde haue borne no other name then nowe I well perceyue the Authour him selfe called it by though the title it nowe hath be not I trust improper and impertinent to the matter he handleth therein To whom he writte this Treatise of comfort and vpon what occasion thou mayest easely perceyue if thou reade the whole all ouer And though shee to whome he writte the same be yet liuing and the occasion thereof such as peraduenture some will mislike of the publishing thereof Yet being certainly perswaded that neither the writer if he were nowe liuing or she to whom he writte woulde haue any thing concealed for priuate respectes that may serue so well as this Treatise will I am assured to the edifying and comfort of manie I haue aduentured to be a meane that it might be imprinted with the approbation of such as by good order in this behalfe are appointed to allowe of all such matters to be published Wherefore gentle Reader accept in good part both this Treatise and the Exhortation adioyned thereunto which if they may serue for thy instruction and comfort as no doubt they will thou hast great cause to prayse God both for the writers and things by them written * ⁎ * f. mylles ❧ A most Comfortable Treatise written by Andrew Kingesmill to his sister very profitable for all men especially for such as are any maner of way afflicted in body or minde c. God forbid that I should reioyce in any thing but in the Crosse of our Lorde Iesus Christ whereby the world is crucified vnto me and I vnto the worlde Gal. 6.14 DEare sister in our Lord and Sauiour Christe Iesus wheras I vnderstād of your present state and condition that it hath pleased God our heauēly Father somewhat to visite touch you with his heauie hand to chastize you with the rodde of his correction and to lay vpon you some part of the crosse of his Christ Had I a farre better talent then I haue which God knowes is but simple yet I thought I could not any otherwise better bestowe occupie the same then so as it were to lay it with you in exchange bāke as by the grace of God to vtter vnto you some saying or sentence whereout you might receiue some piece of relief or comfort for this vsurie and those that haue any so to occupie their talents as to visite the afflicted to comfort the comfortlesse and to bestow although as it were but one poore penie to strengthen the pensiue in patience euen as our Sauiour commended the deuoute womans worke for bestowing her oyle vpon him toward his burial So I doute not but this taske which it hath pleased God now to set me shall appeare vnto him a lawful and gaineful vsurie a wel bestowed oyntment and such a worke that as it lacketh not his charge so it shal not be either to you fruitlesse either with him altogether thankelesse Reioyce with them that reioyce sayth the Apostle and weepe with them that weepe And the sonne of Sirach likewise Let not them that weepe be without comfort but mourne with such as mourne Now Sister considering such the like sayings calling to minde howe we haue reioyced together enioying the good dayes that God of his goodnesse hath heretofore giuen vs and nothing doubting but he will driue away those stormie cloudes and cause againe his cherefull sunne to rise and shine vpon vs and that which I can not forget what a mourner you were with me in the time of my mourning verely now in the time of your distresse if my heauinesse would ease you or my sorow might turne to your ioye I thinke my heart be not so harde but that I should bestowe some teares vpon you although that I foresee mine owne portion in the worlde to be none other but paines without pleasure Dauid we reade lamēted Sauls death although

likewise the historie sheweth of Ammonarion Mercuria Dionysia and other notable women that were so vnfearefull to suffer most sharpe death that they woulde runne when they heard where the execution was in hande and carie their young children with them such delight had they to suffer for Christes sake in great hast as vnto a ioyfull feast fearing nothing els but that the tormentours would spare them and that they should not be thought worthie to beare witnesse to Christes death with their owne bloud Call to your remembrance that faithfull woman and worthie martyr of Iesus Christ your owne countrie woman Anne Askew her imprisonment moued her not she litle weyed the cruel torture and tearing her bodie on the racke she ioyfully went to the fyer and was of more comfort in feeling the paine and lesse wearie thereof then the lookers on to beholde or the tormētours to do execution The historie sayeth that Theodorus a yong man was so grieuously tormēted with diuers and sundrie kindes of tormentes and at length his bodie so rent and torne that they left him for dead Whome Ruffinus the writer of the Ecclesiasticall storie afterward asked whether he felt not grieuous paines whiles he was in the torments to whom he aunswered that he felt verie litle paine For said he there stood as he thought a yong man by him who always wiped the sweat from him and so much comforted his stomacke that the time of the tormenting seemed to him much more pleasaunt then painefull Who made the yong men walke in the fire and burne not Who hardened these martyrs of men and women that they did not shrinke at paine but ranne thorow fire water and most cruell torments and not be ouercome Certainely euen he who had promised them that neither in fier water no nor yet in the shadowe of death he woulde be from them but woulde be their buckler defendour and shield faithfully performing that no temptation should so assaile them but that he woulde giue a ioyfull ende and deliuerance whereunto they trusted and so by their constant fayth ouercame and had the victorie For this is the victorie that ouercommeth the worlde euen our fayth Yea as S. Paul saith the time woulde not serue vs if we would rehearse how the Patriarks prophets Apostles Martyrs through faith subdued kingdomes wrought righteousnes obtained the promises stopped the mouthes of Lyons quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge of the sworde out of weaknes were made strōg waxed valiant in fight turned to flight the armies of the aliants the women receiued their dead raysed to life againe Other were racked and would not be deliuered that they might inherit a better resurrection Againe other were tried with mockings and scourgings moreouer with bonds and imprisonments were stoned were hewen in sunder were tempted were slaine with sworde And these al through fayth obtayned good report The holy Ghost hath caused these histories to be kept in writing for vs that are now in the latter dayes to this ende that we should not onely behold in them the fierie raging of the world from the beginning against the chosen people of God how stoutly they withstood ouercame by faythfull patience the malice therof but also that by reading of thē we should in our like troubles learne like patience receiue the same cōfort being thorowly tried cōceiue a sure hope of the same victorie which they after many sundrie trials did winne whereof we shal not be disapointed if we to the ende striue lawfully If it be to hard aboue your capacitie to beholde al the histories exāples propounded in the scriptures the Chronicles of Christes church with such cōsideration that you may espie behold in them the order of Gods working with his Church in all ages wherby to perceiue these your grieuous chaunges to be no new and vnwonted work of God If you doe not perceiue see in them the true iust cause which moueth the Lord hereunto and thereby to learne faithful repētance if you doe not vnderstand in diligent perusing them that the end and issue was alwayes ioyfull and glorious victorie deliueraunce wherewith to comfort your selues in the middes of miseries take into your handes the comfortable historie of King Dauid marke his whole life from that time he was taken from his fathers sheepe to his death beholde in him your selues in the people during the time of his rule the church of England and in the wonderfull iudgement of God in ordering his Church then what shal be the ende of his sharpe crosse wherwith he doeth exercise you at this time And to the ende you may the better see how to wade in considering his whole life we haue disclosed and opened for you to beholde a part thereof wherein you shall see plainely that the grieuous afflictions of euery one of you seuerally and of the whole Church of England together is not fallen by chaunce of euill or good fortune but by the mightie hande of God whose good will it is thus to haue you tried for a while also for what cause GOD thus worketh and what shal be the ende of al these dooings After the Lorde had founde out Dauid a man after his owne minde and appointed him King ouer his people who laboured worthily to deliuer and defend Gods people from their enemies the Idolatours that dwelt nere about them he did not graūt to him such quietnes neither to his people but that he was in continuall troubles and no small daungers during the life of Saul and also after his death the Idolatours and also Sauls friends seeking all the wayes that might be to disturbe him forth of his kingdome And not onely was he thus vexed with his foraine enemies but also most grieuously of all by those of his houshold who shoulde haue bin his most deare friends his owne natural sonne Absalom his most priuie Counselours the nobilitie of his Realme the most part of his subiectes Absalom pretending to his father Dauid a great holines as the maner of the hypocrites is desired to haue leaue to go into Hebron there to doe sacrifice for the performance of a vowe which he had made in the time of his being in Syria but his meaning was to obtaine the kingdome from his Father and to stirre all Israel against him which he brought to passe Dauid was banished and pursued vnto the death by his owne sonne who wrought so much vilanie against his father that he did not forbeare in the despite of him to misuse his fathers wiues in the sight of all the people how grieuouse and daungerous this sodaine chaunge was to Dauid to the godly people which were but a very fewe in respect of the great number of the malicious hypocrites which folowed Absalom it appeareth plainly in the storie and you may easely consider The best that was like to come of the matter was that whiles the kingdome of Israel was

did persecute them And Dioclesianus more like an infernall serpent then an earthly man did as it were deuoure the Church most cruelly In this time was the greatest persecution that had bene before The tormentours were much more wearie in sheading the Christian bloud and cruelly tormenting the faithfull then the holy martyrs were in suffering the paines There were in this persecutiō within thirtie daies aboue seuenteene thousand Christians killed most spitefully But Constantine the good Emperour became a Christian set the Church in peace was the f●●●… Emperour that did by publike authoritie put downe gentilitie and truely mainteined the Christianitie But that lasted not long for within short time after Iulianus th'apostata being Emperour went about to vndo al that Constantine had done vsed wonderfull policies to destroy the Christian religion and did afflict the faithfull verie grieuously After this time the Church was grieuously molested by the Arrians after with Hunnes Vandals and Gothes and so continued many yeres till all good learning began wonderfully to be decayed and at the length albeit the Church seemed to be at rest yet hath it bene euen to this daye miserably afflicted and the pure religion vtterly defaced by two vicars the Deuil put in commission at one time about eight hundreth yeres since the Antichrist of Rome for the West and Mahomet for the East Nowe weye and consider with your selues this same briefe rehersall of the state of Gods Churche howe the Church of the Israelites was afflicted in Aegypt then in the time of the Iudges next vnder the Ringes at the last caried into a straunge countrey captiues after their returne and reedifying of the Temple what great perils and troubles it sustained till after the dayes of the Machabees next consider the historie of Christ the Actes of the Apostles After this the ten notable persecutions the Church suffered vnder most cruell tyrantes from the eight yere of Nero by the space of three hundreth and twenty yeres vnto the time of Constantine and from his time three hundreth yeres after by the Arrians and barbarous Hunnes Vandals and Gothes by whose meanes good learning was decaied and ignorancie brought in And then marke with aduisement how that from that time hitherto Mahomet hath vsurped and afflicted the East Church and the Pope the west for he began to exercise his proude power ouer the Churche about the same time that Mahomet brought in his religiō consyder I saye with aduisement in all these times howe litle whyle Gods religion was mainteined in the Churche what perilous chaunges were in the kingdomes what exeeeding crueltie was alwayes vsed against the people of God as though they had bene heretikes his word condemned as heresie and the cause of all euils and you shall perceiue that this is no newe or vnkoth thing that the true religion of God should be thus put away and condemned and the faithfull Churche molested and afflicted both generally as is plaine in these histories and also particularly in the ministers faithful members as appeareth in Abel the Patriarches Prophets Christ his Apostles in a great number of holy sainctes and martyrs since the death of Christ til nowe our daies Thus may you plainely see how God hath wrought with his Church at all times and therefore should not discourage your selues because of this sodain chaūge but with Dauid acknowledging your sinnes to God declare vnto him how many they be that vexe you and rise against you naming you heretikes and the children of Belial as they named Dauid Let the wicked Idolaters boast and bragge that they haue ouercome you and that God hath giuen you ouer wil no more be your God let them put their trust in Absalom with his long golden lockes and in the wisedome of Achitophel the wise counsailour yet say you with Dauid thou O Lord art my defender thou art my worship and the lifter vp of my head feare not their violence to hurt you in your bodies to harme you in your goodes Perswade your selues with Dauid that the Lord is your defender who hath cōpassed you round about and is as it were a shielde that doeth couer you on euery part it is he only that may and will compasse you about with glorie and honour it is hee that will thrust downe those prowde hypocrites from their seat and exalt his lowly and meeke Dauid in the mids of his miseries did thus comfort him selfe leaning to the prouidence of God looking for deliuerance from him appointing God no time but cōmitting the whole matter vnto his wisedome and goodnesse He layed him selfe to sleepe rose againe was not afrayed for innumerable people that set him round about to haue destroyed him for the Lord wil sustaine me saieth this good king This was his shot anker here was his refuge herewith he comforted himselfe that the Lord would bee his defender and sauegarde and at the length restore him to his place againe He armed him selfe with the armour of God but aboue al he tooke to him the shield of faith wherewith he quenched the fyrie dartes of the wicked Hee had the helmet of saluation the sworde of the spirit the promises of God and buckled these fast vnto him selfe with this long and durable girdle of faithfull prayer and watching saying I wil crye vnto the Lord with my voyce and he will heare me from his holy hill If you will receiue comfort crye with Dauid vnto the Lorde exercise your faith in earnest and continual prayer say arise O Lord help me and he will smite your enemies on the cheekebone and brast all their teeth in sunder he will hang vp Absalom by his owne long heare Achitophel through desperation shall hange him selfe the bandes shal be broken you deliuered for this belongeth to the Lord to saue his frō their enemies to blesse his people Thus Dauid in the mids of his affliction did comfort him self trust to the only prouidence of his most mercifull God perswading himselfe both of his good will and mightie power whereby he should haue deliuerance and was not deceiued This blessing shall also be on you if that neglecting the wisdome of the worlde you submit your selues to the correctiō of God your heauenly Father faithfully crying him mercie patiently abiding his good will and pleasure FINIS The cause that mooued the Authour to wryte this Treatise Mat. 26.10 Rō 12.15 Eccle. 7.34 2. Sam. 1.12 Comforts some are temporall some eternall Temporal comforts 1. Tim. 5.23 Prou. 31.6 Meate drink c. Psal. 107.9 Kinsfolkes friends Psal. 69.8 A house or dwelling place Concord of brethrē Psal. 122.3 Psal. 133.1 Euerlastīg and heauenly comforts Reue. 4.4 Gods worde Rom. 15.4 Election in Christ Rom. 8.28 Paul. Rom. 8.37 Ioseph Gen. 37.24 Gen. 39.20 Gen. 45.4 5. Gen. 45.8 Dauid Three childrē in the fornace Daniel Dan. 6.16 c. 1 Cor. 10.13 Heb. 12.11 Christ This is since imprinted and called The viewe of the estate of man c. Philip 2.5.6.7.8 Act. 2.26 27. The applying of the former examples Heb. 12.8 Christs to●ments and afflictiōs Warrants out of the scriptures for our cōfort Mar. 7.29 Iohn 3.16 1. Iohn 1.4 Answeres to certain obiections cōcerning the want of things Cōpanie 1. Iohn 1.7 Worldly estimation Mariage Barennes Anna. Tob. 3.10 Sara Abraham An excellent comparison betwene the profite cōfort that the wife may haue of her husband and the same we haue of our head and husbād Christ Reuel 12. Rom. 8.32 Comforts against the contēpt of the world and sorow and heauines 1. Cor. 12. Reue. 21. Luk. 16.25 Ioh. 15.18 2. Tim. 2.11 12. Ioh. 15. Rom. 6. Ioh. 15. 1. Pet. 2. Rom. 8. Rom. 15. Ioh. 16. Math. 4. Matth. 9. 1. Pet. 5. Math. 6. Psal. 8. Psal. 37. Psal. 9. Math. 6. Psal. 50. Psal. 23. Mat. 10. Esa. 43. Rom. 8. Psal. 13.5 Mar. 9. Matth. 8. Psal. 2. Matth. 9. Ephe. 6. Philip. 4. 2. Cor. 4. Mat. 10. Rom. 8. Gen. 11. Gen. 12. Gen. 28. Gen. 46. 3. Reg. 19. Dan. 1. Gen. 45. 3. Reg. 17. 3. Reg. 19. Dan. 14. Rom. 8. Dan. 3. 2. Mach. 7. 1. Mach. 2. 2. Mach. 6. Ecclesiast hist lib. 6. cap. 4. Ecclesiast hist lib. 6. cap. 5. Eccle. hist li. 6. cap. 41 1. Iohn 5. Heb. 11. 2. Reg. 15. Psalm 3. 2. Reg. 15. Psalm 3. 2. Reg. 12. 2. Reg. 15. Exod. 7. Exod. 9. Rom. 9. Hebr. 11. 2. Cor. 4. Iohn 9. Rom. 8. Heb. 12. 3. Reg. 11. 3. Reg. 22. 4. Reg. 21. 4. Reg. 22. Mat. 15. Act. 8. Eusebius eccle hist li. 8. cap. 9. Ephe. 6.