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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
church_n	militant_a	saint_n	triumphant_a	2,884	5	10.8885	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03260	A consolatorie epistle to the afflicted catholikes, set foorth by Thomas Hide Priest	Hide, Thomas, 1524-1597.	1579 (1579)	STC 13376; ESTC S118132	36,634	140

A CONSOLATORIE EPISTLE TO THE AFFLICTED catholikes set foorth by THOMAS HIDE Priest Be strong and take a Good hart vnto you al you that put your trust in our lord Psalm 30. ECCE AGNVS DEI. Imprinted at Louaine by Iohn Maes for Iohn Lion. 1579. VVITH PRIVILEGE Subsig Strick The ouen proueth the potters vessel so doth temptation of trouble trie the righteous Eccles 27. Our lord knoweth how to deliuer the godlie out of temptation and how to reserue the vniust to be ponished at the daie of iudgmeÌ„t 2. Pet. 2. You must suffer patientlie that you maie be knowen to be his disciples for whom you suffer Zepherin epist. A CONSOLATORIE EPISTLE IT is writen that Christe and his disciples vvent into a shippe vvheÌ„ sodainelie arose a greate tempest in the sea so that the shippe vvas couered vvith vvaues Christe slept His disciples avvaked hym and saide maister saue vs vve perishe Christe saide vnto them vvhy are you feareful you of litle faithe Then he arose rebuked the vvindes and there folovved a greate calme We must so conceiue of Christes workes that we beleaue them to be don in veritie and to implie an other thinge in signification to shewe one thinge by power and to signifie an other in mysterie It lacketh not mysterie that Christe and his disciples went into a shippe and that this shippe was teÌ„pested You haue heard de Christes facte marke the mysterie This shippe resembled the churche militant wherin al christiaÌ„ passengers do saile and be tossed with tempestes whyles they driue towarde theire countrie the quiet hauen of heauen that is the churche triumphant The sea resembleth the course of the worlde which is alwayes troublous And by the teÌ„peste is signified al suche pressure and persecution as they must expecte that folowe Christe into this shippe It was reuealed to sainct Iohn the wel-beloued Apostle of Christe that the churche should haue greate persecution Beholde the diuel shal cast some of you into prison to be tempted and you shal haue tribulation ten dayes By the terme of ten dayes is signified eyther the ten persecutions which the churche suffered vnder the Emperours or els the whole tracte of troubles which she shal endure in hir peregrinatioÌ„ There hath ben no age of men nor course of time sitheÌ„ce Christe wherin this shippe that is to saye the militant churche of Christe hath not ben tempested The vngodlye drevve out their svvorde bente their bovve to cast dovvne the simple and to slaie such as goo the right vvaie Thes wordes of the prophet were verefied after Christes ascension when there arose greate tempestes to wit diuers persecutions against the churche open persecution and secret persecution persecution violent and persecution fraudulent persecution of tyrannie and persecution of heresie the one openlie the other secretlie the one by sworde the other by worde Of these teÌ„pestes heresie was more contrarious to the churche then tyrannie For heresie transformethe hir selfe into the Angel of light proceadeth gilfullie deceiueth the simple striketh greuouselie with the sworde of the tonge and shedeth bloud cruellie by killinge Christe in his meÌ„bers TyraÌ„nie dealeth not with scripture not with drifte of learninge nor by order of iuste proufes but by crueltie and dint of sworde Yet hath the churche gayned more by tyrannie then by heresie for tyrannie maketh martyrs heresie begetteth Apostats Of them that persecuted the churche with tyrannie and heresie they were most ingrate and greatest persecutors who beinge some time christiaÌ„s and fallinge from christianitie became professed enemies to the christian religion so was Valens the Emperour who of a catholike became an Arian so was Iulianus who borne of christian parentes and brought vp by learned christians became Apostata so was Licinius who of a christian became a persecutor There lacked not in this parte some nomber of the feminine tribe to put to their shrewde heades and helpes as Theodora Iustina Philomenes Prisca Maximilla and Lucilla It is not my final intention to enlarge of persecution nor of persecutors but brefelie to shewe to the persecuted catholikes of our tyme that yf now they finde al possible oppressions vnder heresie and tyrannie it may not seme strainge vnto them yf they consider how Christes shippe was couered with the waues how the churche hath ben persecuted eueÌ„ from hir infancie and that she lacketh not at this time hir Valentes hir Iulians hir LiciniaÌ„s hir Theodoras hir Iustinas hir Lucinas This pointe I wil touche a pointe not impertinent to note why Christe permitteth his churche to be so sore tempted and why the diuel raysed so manie blouddie battailes of cruel persecutions in the verie prime of the churche It is the corruption of our sinful nature to forget our dutiful seruice to God when we be secure and holde our desires in quiet We gase vpon the gaie glitterings of the wanton worlde wee feede our appetites with the delicate cherishinges of the fleshe so that our heartes begine to be estrainged from God and to leese the sense and feelinge of godlines vntil God sende vexation that geueth vnderstaÌ„dinge When prosperitie had brought in libertie and impunitie of synne corrupted discipline when christians declined from deuoute conuersation and committed greate disorders God waxed angrie and sterred against theÌ„ against their churches against ther priestes and pastors the puissante power of persecutors to reuenge his conceiued anger When longe peace had corrupted Godes heauenlie discipline and feruour of faithe beganne to coole in the house of God God began iudgement in his owne house and by seueritie of correction erected faithe that laie a sleape and as it were in contempte Semblablie God dealeth now with his people knowinge the lewsenes of theire life and seinge the drines of their faithe he rayseth vp a greate tempeste wherin they be pitiouslie tossed with manye hurles of the vnquiet sea Certes for many hundred yeares the christian worlde the christian religion the faithe catholike was not so mightelie shaken as it hath ben in thes later tempestes of our times when bothe violent and fraudulent persecution haue assaide euen by penal lawes to rase out of christian mens heartes the general faithe of Christe and to persecute them that further not such a special faithe as the spirite of the worlde teacheth To you therfore derelie beloued countrie men to you that be afflicted catholikes for religion in what case and place soeuer you be I addresse this consolatorie epistle wherin my endeuour is to declare suche comfortes as the selfe cause of religion semeth to yelde Seinge now the violent windes blowe and bluster not onelie againste the kingedomes of the worlde but againste the churche that is the kingedome of god and knowinge that they haue shakeÌ„ out of the shippe manye and to manye lost christians I offer vnto you that yet remaine and suffer in the shippe then coÌ„fortes euen out of the bodie and bosome of religion I make common

This comfortor gaue them strengthe to beare al that the malice of the worlde was able to laie vpon theÌ„ It came to passe as Christe foretolde they were caste oute conuented and reuiled did they grudge at it did they murmure for it The storie saithe They vvent oute from the couÌ„sel house reioysinge that they vvere vvorthie to suffer reuiles for the name of Iesus Paulus and Silas vvere put in prison and vvhipped cruellie they did not repine the storie saithe They sange at midnighte praienge and praisinge our lorde This ioye in this correction this iocunditie of spirite in this tribulation came of the holie ghoste that sitteth at the foreparte of the shippe and geueth comfort in al tempestes and tribulations This promise of comforte extended not onelie to Christes disciples but in them to theire ofspringe and to the whole corps of Christes churche whersoeuer it be scatered in dispersion Who emboldened the persecuted Christians to stande in the confession of their faithe so constantlie to professe theire religion so confidentlie euen to the face of the tyrannes when they made thes stoute asseuerations Ego Christianus sum I am a christian Catholicus sum I am a catholike Arianus non sum I am not an Arian Haereticus esse nolo I wil not be an heretike They were nickenamed called men of Galile called Homousions and murtherers of Prophetes The tyran exclamed against them Ad bestias awaye with thes wretched christians awaye with them sende them to the beastes haue them to the lyons hale them to the leopardes awaye with thes naughtie wretches to the mynes let them digge metalles Now were thes miserable men sent ad campum MartyruÌ„ where they were done to deathe Now did the cutthrotes scoure theire swordes in the bowels of the christians Now did the bloud-suckers dyp and washe their haÌ„des in the bloudde of the sainctes Who now did coÌ„forte them who now did strengthen them but the holie ghoste that gouerneth the foreparte of the shippe and comforteth the windeshakeÌ„ in al tempestes and tribulation To caste a litle more to this this comforte hath wel appeared in thes latter persecutions of our times What halteringe what hanginge what hewinge downe of christians what murderinge what quateringe what martyringe of catholikes hath there ben since the partie protestant began his newe no gospel What mischeuous machinations haue the sectaries practised to vnderproppe theire ruinous religion What lamentable tragedies haue they made that nowe shake so mightelie the whole frame of Christes faithe And yet notwithstandinge al theire possible oppressions al theire pernitious plottes faithe endureth the churche standeth the catholike encreaseth And of this you that be in this storme tottered and tossed do see what you comforte your selues in As there be manye in manye quarters of our countrie that suffer for the catholike cause so be there manie that be broughte by theire sufferinge to knowe the catholike name to enquire of the catholike churche and to learne to confesse the catholike faithe Yea there be many that neuer knewe the catholike religion which now in the common trobles of catholikes come vnto it receaue it beleue it and suffer for it It may be presumed by common intendement that there is not lefte amoÌ„g you any nomber of the catholike race In dede it is rather miraculous then maruelous there should be any consideringe ther hath not ben for some number of yeares any outwarde face any open exercise of the catholike faithe consideringe there is no place where catholikes be not pried for apprehended and imprisoned no prison so vile where they bee not harbored yea those places which were ordayned for theifes murtherers bankeroutes heretikes and treitors be made the lodginges of holie fathers of reuerend bishopes of priestes of gentlemen and gentlewomeÌ„ finallie coÌ„sideringe the lawes of the realme be againste the catholikes and that catholikes be depriued spoyled hated disgraced persecuted and some of them executed Notwithstanding al this Godes churche hath hir faitheful flocke that confesseth the catholike truthe openlie maugre the diuel heresie and tyrannie And hot withstaÌ„dinge al worldelie disgraces ouertwhartes iniuries persecution and execution yet is there lefte some good number that neuer bowed theire knees to Baal neuer receaued the breaded communion neyther went to the schismatical seruice Yea some nomber that be readye to render their goodes to the worlde and their soules to God as willinge in this quarrel to dye as to liue Blessed be the name of God that hath raysed a catholike youthe to supplye the ruful ruine of them which haue perished with Chore Dathan and AbiroÌ„ It is the blessed wyl of God that the glorye of his militant churche should multiplie in persecution should encrease vnder oppressioÌ„ and that out of the bloud of one catholike sufferinge deathe for Christe should aryse manye holie christians The bloud of the martyres saith S. CypriaÌ„ is the seade of the churche wherof aryse and encrese mo as of the seede in the felde springeth newe corne The churche was amoÌ„ge the Israelites when they laye vnder the cruel bondage of Pharao and of them it is written The more they vvere oppressed the more they increased The churche was but a litle flocke when the fyrst persecution began at HierusaleÌ„ and yet ther of Christes gospel spred mightelie It is Godes gracious gifte that his churche should prosper when she is persecuted When she is oppressed then she is increased when she is iniured then she ouercometh euen then she coÌ„quereth wheÌ„ she semeth to be ouercomed The churche is lyke the palme tree the greater waight is laide on it the broder it spreadeth The churche is lyke camomil the more you treade on it the thicker it waxeth It is written of the persecuted They were imprisoned tyed in chaynes whipped killed and torne in peeces yet they encreased The storie mentioneth of a notable womaÌ„ who hearinge that manye christians should be put to deathe tooke hir childe in hir armes ranne to professe hir faithe and to dye with them The officer meetinge hir demaunded whither she wente she tolde hym to the place of the christians Why sayed he they shal be al put to deathe And I goo quoth she to dye with them But why sayed he doest thou carye thy childe with thee she answered my childe shal take suche parte as the mother doth You that be nowe teÌ„pested in the shippe of Christe you that beare affliction for the churche of Christe abide in the shippe leape not oute be not tipte ouer bourde your gouernours be sure skilful and sufficiente to saue you in al teÌ„pestes your twelue roers wil driue you into a safe porte where no malice of man nor machination of diuel shal ouertrowe you You haue the helpe of God the father that gouerneth you haue the promise of Christe his sonne that praieth you haue the comforte of the holie ghoste that strengtheneth God the father helpeth you god the soÌ„ne praieth for you God the holie ghoste

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