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A11244	The pitifull estate of the time present A Christian consideration of the miseries of this time, with an exhortation to amendement of life: compiled by one zealous in the lawe of God, and set forth by publike autority, being perused and allowed by the same.	I. S., fl. 1564.; Stubbes, John, 1543-1591, attributed name.	1564 (1564)	STC 21504; ESTC S112130	22,439	64

pitilesse persecutors of him in his mēbers haue bene there so long reserued where with the Lord as well appeareth is greuously offended and therefore hath layed the greater burden vpon vs. Wherfore we see the to much mercy is as well hurtfull to the offendours as condigne punishement for thē is necessary Ieremy 28. Deute 13.18 ★ who if they were cut away from vs we shoulde be voide of euill wherefore I would those stumbling blockes were remoued according to the saying of S. Paul Gallath 5. I would God they were cut of from vs which do disquiet vs. And with Iob I say Iob. 24. oh that all compassion vpō them were forgottē 1. Thessal ● ‡ for they displease God hinder men from their saluation God therfore for his great mercysake graunt that the sworde of Iustice no longer ruste in the scabberde but that it may be put to the vse that God hath apointed it that such may iustly receiue that which vniustlye they haue done vnto the clect seruants of God and that as well the obstinate Papistes as also the carnall Gospellers may feele the wayght thereof or else it wyll be still the longer the worse To much mercy mar●eth good manners for to manifest it is at thys day in Englande that the ouermuch mercy pitifulnesse maketh a presumpteous and carelesse people which if it be not the soner redressed let vs assure our selues the thys plague of pestilence wherewith wee haue lately perished so fast is but a beginning of sorrowes and a declaration of a more heauy greuous vengeance of God to come vpon vs which if for the neglecting the punnishing of sinne and for not maintaining of Gods quarel be wilfully purchased thē woe woe woe will be vppon vs for God will then so handle vs as he neuer did before Ezechiel 5. who hath plentye of plagues in store yea Leuitic 2● euen readye hangyng ouer our heads Wherefore good brethren let euery one of vs enter into himselfe and well beholde the monstrousnesse of our beastly behauiour that so shamefully aboundeth considering that where the vineyarde bringeth forth the best wine the Lord doth keepe it and in due time water it and preserueth it daye and night from the enimy that he do it no harme Esay 27. but where the vineyarde yeldeth and bringeth forth bryers and thornes the Lorde will runne thorow it by warres and wil make the strong cities desolate and the habitation forsaken God who made created the people wyll not fauour them Beware I say therefore oh Englād be warned be not tolong carelesse for it is manifest ynough vnlesse we will be wilfull blinde Esay 26. that the hand of the Lord is lifted vp against vs we haue felt the heauy burden therof vpon vs. The Lord graunt vs therfore grace speedy amendement of our life least the Lord in his wrath make of our Cities blessed famous fruitfull countrey an heape of broken stones Esay 17. as he did wyth Damascus or with the walled Citye of Aroer whereof hee threatned to make soldes of cattaill and so we purchase to ourselues sorrow without hope of comfort from the which misery that the Lord our God in whose hands we are as the claye in the potters may defende vs let vs speedely and continually in all humblenesse of heart in weeping fasting and praying in maner and forme following inuocate the name of God our heauenly father to whom wyth the sonne and the holye Ghost be all praise and glory world without ende Amen ⁂ The Prayer OH most puissant mighty king the god of our forefathers and of thy people Israel who turnest man to distruction and then againe art gratious and mercifull deliuer nowe from perill vs poore wretches that with vnfayned heartes call vppon thee although our wickednesse past hath most highly offēded thee oh Lord our God and hath bene most grieuous in thy sight who therfore hast layd thy heauy hande vpon vs the smart wherof wee haue felte to our great discomfort although not so sharply as our wickednesse well deserued yet nowe Lorde at the humble sute of vs sorowfull sinners ceasse thy anger withdrawe thy dreadfull hande and let thy mercye quenche the flame of thy furye looke downe vpon vs beholde the miserye of thy feeble flocke that are almost drowned in the dungeon of dolour stop not thyne eares at the crying of our lamentable and mourning voyces but comfort vs relieue vs and suffer not the sourges of sorrowe to ouerwhelme vs but rayse thou vs vppe that are fallen giue vs a Godlye consideration of the wonderfull woorke of thy late wrathfull indignation vppon vs by the ouerthrowe and distruction of the great number of oure Brethren whome in thy ireful desetued displeasure by death thorowe Plague thou hast taken from vs that thereby wee being warned may henceforth eschewe and auoyd the importable burthens of thy heauy vengeaunce that thou reseruest in store for Sinners Preserue good Lorde the Queenes moste excellente Maiestye and graunt hir to our cōfort a long and prosperous raigne make hir zealous seruent in the tryall of thy truthe prouing of thy will and testament and oh lord forgiue our enimies that haue ben persecuters of thy people and selaunderers of thy truth and Gospell tourne their hearts if so it be thy heauenly wil if not but that they bee of the number of those whose hearts thou hast hardened bicause they should not vnderstand the mysteries contayned in thy holye word nor the vnspeakeable comfort cōtayned in the same then suffer theyn● Lord no longer to shaddow themselues in secret corners priuyly to worke theyr perillous pretence poysoning thy people wyth the pestilent persuasion of dānable doctrine but according to thy promise which is that the generation of the wicked shal be without honour so stand now vp Lord of hosts and be no longer mercyful vnto thy enimies that of malicious wickednesse resisting thy truth Psaline 59. do grenne as dogges at thy people but thorow thy Godly motion so moue the heart of our most gratious Queene as Iehu in the defence of thy Gospell and people to drawe the sworde committed to hir by thee to cut away from the face of the earthe those rebellious ennimies and sworne aduersaries agaynste thee and thy Gospell to weede and roote out the rotten members that infect and poy son the body of the common welth that then the noisom number and remnant of the wicked being swept out with the beesom of destruction the flocke of thy folde thorow thy mighty assistance and gratious helpe and furtheraunce maye all the dayes of our lyfe be at defiaunce with Sathan vtterly forsake abhorre cast of the patched lothesome wycked weede of our olde Adam and being apparelled and adorned wyth the gladsome garment and riche attyre of righteousnesse we may shine in all vertue and be pleasaunt and acceptable in thy sight to the praise and glory of thy holy name and our eternall comforte To thee oh God the Father the Sonne the holy Ghost three persons and one immortal inuisible and euerliuing God be all praise and dominion for euer and euer Amen Giue God the prayse I. S. Imprinted at London in Whitecrosse strete by Henry Denham Anno Domini 1564.

contemners therof shewing themselues forsaken of God and left to themselues and therefore ought not that which is holye to be giuen to suche dogges Math. 7. for it is but as Pearles strawed before swine the treade them vnder their feete and turne again to rent the giuers thereof as they already haue done and againe would doe if power beastly will were according What otherwyse therfore shall be done vnto these wilful stubborne ones ★ who being ignorant of Gods righteousnesse and going about to stablish their own Roma 10. and being disobedient vnto the righteousnesse of God if they will stil so continue in their vnfaithfulnesse and be by no meanes conuerted vnto godwards but euen according to the sentence of God Almighty pronounced by Esdras dye in their vnfaithfulnesse 4. Esdr 15. ★ For the vngodly transgressors and such as become vnfaithful and obstinate vnto the Lorde Esaye 1. muste altogither be vtterly destroyed yea deuoured with the sworde 1. Esdra● 7. Againe Esdras wylleth the those which knowe not the lawe of God shoulde be taught which much disagreeth wyth ignoraunce to be the mother of deuotiō as some of their affinitye haue taught and those saith hee that wyll not then fulfill the lawe of God and the kynges lawe shall haue this iudgement without delaye losse of goodes emprisonment and death 1. Esdras 6. ★ then there shall be a beame taken from hys house and set vp he shal be hanged theron 4. Regū 10 ★ And if Iehu did cause all the priestes of Baall to bee slaine and destroyed bicause they were the enimies of GOD why then are these vyle Vypers and Romishe bloudsuckers 1. Regū 28. these intollerable Diuils vtter enimies both to God and their Prince thus suffered to persiste in their euill escaping so long the death which they so worthily haue deserued seing God wil haue his fierce wrath executed vpon hys enimies Why are they styll suffered thus to triumphe and proudly to make theyr vaunt and boast that the Prince hath no power to harme them The bragges of the Papistes Abacuc 1. why are they I saye thus suffered to mocke their King laugh theyr Prince to scorne Well well if God be herewith pleased then let it be still as it is But as certainely as God was offended with king Saule forsparing of king Agag enimy to the children of God 1. Regū 15. and for reseruing the Cattaile and beastes which he commaūded to be slaine and Saule notwithstanding doing therein as seemed best to hymselfe neglecting the commaundement of the hyghest euen so vndoubtedly is God nowe not pleased wyth the reseruing of these so manifest enimies who although they haue the shape of men yet in their maners more monstrous and beastly than brute beastes in deede who should not thus long haue beene vnrewarded if there were not some either draw backs or claw backes or both the looke smothe with theyr heades and sting with their taile bearing twoo faces in a hoode whose power ouergoeth right and by whose meanes the lawe is torne in pieces so that right iudgement cannot proceede nor go forth Abacuc 1. but flattering Ipocrites are enimies to the Gospel Would God that such as are infected and sicke of that disease were dispatched both frō court countrey Three chiefe pointes to be noted for neuer shall truth tellers bee thorowly welcome in Englande tyll such false flatterers be out of credit and estimation neither shal that vggly Whore and shamelesse strompet of Babilon be cleane ouerthrowen till such hir loitering louers be brought to confusion nor yet the proude hearts of the arrogant Papists the vtter enimies to God and theyr Prince bee mollified meekened and made humble and lowlye tyll Iudgement with iustice be ioined togither the neglecting wherof is cause presently that the boy presumeth against the elder and the vile person against the honorable Wherefore mee think although there were no worde of God at all to instructe or moue vs yet our consciences would moue vs to consyder condigne punishement for such so notorious greuous detestable trāsgressours and offēdours as these stubborne rebels art ★ who although they declare theyr owne sinnes themselues hyde them not and that their wordes works and counsels are against the Lorde our God and our Prince Soueraigne yet are they wincked at and suffered Yet notwithstanding as I doubt not but the the Queenes most excellent Maiesty to whom God graunt a long prosperous raigne to aduaunce his truth to the glorye of his holy name the vnspeakable comfort of hys people committed to hit charge is mindefull and well considereth the terrible threatening of God vpon Princes for not executing iustice who hauing but deferred the same hoping thorow hir clemēcy great mercy to bring them to the knowledge of God and their due obedience to hir Grace yet lo beyng but for thys cause prolonged 4. Esdr 1● ★ the innocent bloud of the troubled hath so long cryed vengeance vnto the Lorde vppon his enimyes Apocal. 6. and the soules of the righteous still continually complaining and the Lorde our God himselfe hauing so long suffered and holden backe hys hande looking when the sworde of iustice should bee drawen by the Prince to whom hee hath committed it for the executing of offendours as well Idolatrers murderers maintainers of whoredome rebellious and enuious enimies of his truth and seeth notwithstanding his quarrel not maintained but the worthye extreme deserued punishement deferred and iustice in his cause neglected 4. Esdr 15. The deferring of iustice hath prouoked the wrath of God cannot ★ bicause he wyll no longer suffer suche iniurye but as a righteous iudge to reuēge hys owne cause doth nowe in his wrathfull indignation plentifully poure hys perrillous plague of pestilence vpon vs in such terrible wise as that wee are glad to flye from our cities mislike our lodgings forsake our houses dispersing our selues abroade in sundrye places bycause the the messanger of God death dailye climing in at our windowes is come into our houses to destroy vs. Yea the Lorde as we see ★ consumeth vs wyth the breath of hys wrathe euen as the wythered grasse Esay 40. and as he not long since when wee were greater in number tooke then from vs the fruite of the earth or gaue so small encrease therof as that wee had not wherwyth sufficiently to feéde vpon so nowe he hauing plentifully blessed the earth with store destroyeth now by death the people for whose sakes he prouided appointed it Two chief causes of the plague in London And the causes why that London speciallye is more sharplyer visited than any one place of Englande besides is for that the worde of God being there most purelye and plentifullye preached and taught is there least followed The second cause why is for that the enimies of God that haue bene such shamelesse shedders of innocent bloude