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A16573	The complaynt of veritie, made by Iohn Bradford. An exhortacion of Mathewe Rogers, vnto his children. The complaynt of Raufe Allerton and others, being prisoners in Lolers tower, & wrytten with their bloud, how god was their comforte. A songe of Caine and Abell. The saieng of maister Houper, that he wrote the night before he suffered, vppon a wall with a cole, in the newe In, at Gloceter, and his saiyng at his deathe	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Rogers, Matthew. Instruction of a father to his children.; Allerton, Ralph. A lamentable complaynt of the afflicted, unto god our onely healper.; Allerton, Ralph. A briefe rehersal of parte of the aucthours trouble, entituled God is my comforte.; Allerton, Ralph. Songe of the poore prisoners in Lolers tower.; Hooper, John, d. 1555. Wordes of Maister Houper at his death.; Hooper, John, d. 1555. These are the wordes that Maister John Houper wrote on the wall with a cole, in the newe inne in Gloceter, the night before he suffered.	1559 (1559)	STC 3479; ESTC S112643	64,740	174

IOHN BRADEFORD The complaynt of Veritie made by Iohn Bradford An exhortacion of Mathewe Rogers vnto his children The complaynt of Raufe Al●erton and others being prisoners in Lolers tower wryten with their bloud how god was their comforte ¶ A songe of Caine and Abell The saieng of maister Houper that he wrote the night before he suffered vppon a wall with a cole in the newe In at Gloceter and his saiyng at his deathe ANNO DOMINI 1559. ❧ The complaint of Veritie O Heauen O earth to thee I cal To witnes what I saye whych am causelesse in England thrall and put to great decay Veritie of all thinges the light I am that thus do mourne Sent from God to teache them right whiche in this world be borne And that of me none might it dout ●heron so euer I preache I haue for me the word throughout ●s Christes Gospell doth teache This truthe to Englande haue I taught with trauel and with paine And for my hyre now am I sought ●ruelly to be slaine I that from bondage dyd the shield whiche was before opprest ●m now by the as captiue held ●or prechyng to the best From death to life I did thee bring that thou might liue for aye And now my life for wel doing to death thou seekest a pray was there euer age so cruell that thus coulde me rewarde So soone to cast into exile whome they did once regarde what vnrighteousnes haue ye founde on me whome thus ye spite Let them speake that wold me cōfound by reason and by write I seke without vnfained clokes to mayntayne that is right But falsitie with her painted lokes wyll not abyde that syght O false time of iniquitie O season most vniust where exiled is Veritie and cast downe to the dust what though false Iudges doe me dam as Susan was most chaste yet by a Daniell sure I am to be absolued at the laste The Lord send me a iudge vpright to listen to my cause Then dout I not to put to flight those that nowe lye and glose Now whether shall I for remedy seeke that I may it fynde Thou Lord direct my steppes ready to some that will me frende The clergy say I am heresy with me they fyght apace For fashed blindes them so wilfully they haue no better grace Learned men which did me defend doe now their iudgement turne For liuynges sake they do intend lyke wandering starres to runne The lawiers say they could not thriue since Scripture came in place Their vauntage is whē men do striue and not by truth and peace The gentlemen whiche once me had ●n praise and eke in price Now say for them I am to sad and would haue them be wise The Marchaunt man saith he must lyue and cannot with me gaine But all to riches his mind doth giue with much daunger and paine Wemen say they must nedes obey thir husbandes when they lyst Therfore in them I may not say to haue anye greate trust The common sort vnlearned be to them I may not leane They knowe not by deuinitie my cause for to maintaine Thus haue all persons som pretence from me quite to decline And am put to my owne defence to keepe my selfe from ruyne yet in this may I glory plaine that though with fewe I stand I am of power and strength certaine more then all my foes band For God so hath indued my tonge with wysdome and with grace That I can shew ther doings wrong which dare stand face to face Therfore mine enemies vilanously put me from mens hearinges Least I should most manifestly tell them of their leasynges For this they would out of mennes eyes Gods worde to kepe so hie That where they preache boldly lyes none might agaynst them replye Al to maintaine their pompe pryde their belly slouth and ease They force me in thraldome to bide for that I them displease Ah England what is the trespas that against god thou hast done That thou wouldst loue darkenes alas more then light of the Sunne Ah I le of moste nobilitie why art thou become bande To that proude harlots falsitie the ruine of all the lande Woo that I must that day beholde whiche came to make the free I would I had thee neuer tolde ●he trueth in eache degree Then were thy synne muche more les whiche knowledge maketh great And of the same mightst seeke redres to turne away the threate This dampnacion God doth say the father of all right That light is come nowe of the day yet in darkenes men more delight Thus do I wepe w t aboundāt teares with sighes and eke with grones Ah that men wil not geue their eares vnto my lawfull mones Finis quod Iohn Bradforde ¶ The instruction of a Father to his Children which he wrote a few dayes before his burnynge GIue eare my Chyldren to my wordes Whome God hathe dearelye bought Lay vp his lawes within your hertes and print them in your thought For I your father haue foresene the frayle and fylthy way Which flesh bloud would folow faine euen to their owne decay For all and euery liuyng beast their cribbe do knowe full well But Adams heyres aboue the rest are ready to rebell And all the creatures of the earth full well do kepe their way But Adams heires euē frō their birth are apt to goe astray For earth and ashes is his strength his glory and his gayne And into ashes at the length he shall returne againe For fleshe doth florishe lyke a floure and growe vp like a grasse And is consumed in an houre as it is come to passe For I the ymage of your yeares your treasure and your trust Am nowe dyeng before your face and shal consume to dust For as you see your Fathers fleshe consumed into clay Euen so shall ye my children deare consume and weare away The sun the moone eke the stars that serue the day and night The earth and euery earthly thinge shall be consumed quyte And al the worship that is wrought that hath bene heard or sene Shal clean cōsume turne to nought as it had neuer bene Therfore see that ye folowe me your father and your frende And enter into the same lande which neuer shall haue ende I leaue you here a little booke for you to looke vpon That you may see your fathers face when he is dead and gon Who for the hope of heauenly thinges while he did here remayne Gaue ouer all his golden yeares in prisone and in payne where I among mine iron bandes inclosed in the darke A fewe dayes before my death did dedicate this warke And in example of your youth to whome I wishe all good I preche you here a perfect trouth and seale it with my bloud To you mine heires of erthly things wich I do leaue behinde That you may reade vnderstande and keepe it in your minde That as ye haue bene heires of that whiche once shall weare a way Euen so ye

vp thy firy brande and vexe poore Abell still Though Abel haue no fleshly strengthe thy furious wrath to tame yet God wil preserue him at the length to thy rebuke and shame Although his flesh thou lay ful lowe thy wrath to satisfie yet by the death of Lamethes bowe for his bloud thou shalt die Though Ismael had the greater stay before the promis begonne yet God bad Abraham put away the bond maide with her sonne Though Iacob fled his brothers ire to cause the fury cease yet God gaue him his whole desire and brough● him home in peace when Israel out of Egipt fled from him that helde them thrall The lord preserued the righteous sede and drowned their enemies all when that Golias in his great pryde his hie blastes out did blowe The lord soone laied his pompe asyde and brought his boastinges lowe when king Saule sought Dauids life without Dauids offence The Lord at last ended that strife and Saule made recompence when Acheor to a tree was bounde because he truth did tell He was soone healed of that wounde by the God of Israell when Holifernus in his rage against Goddes flocke did stand Then soone did his pryde asswage euen by a womans hand when A man made a gallowes strong for Mardocheus the Iewe Himselfe was hanged theron ere long for God is iust and true when Susan was without refuge and like to suffer paine The Lord that is a righteous iudge did pay her foes againe As Daniell in the Lions den was kept from wo and greefe So God preserueth righteous men and sendes them quicke reliefe when that the ouen was made red hot the children to destroy Gods angel the flame out swot and walked with them in ioy when Peter Iohn in pryson were for preaching of Gods worde Gods angel did the doore vnbarre as Luke doth well recorde Thus by examples strong and sure the Scripture doth witnes The enemies power can not endure for God doth it suppres when God made all thinges with his word he blest it with increase But soone the deuil brought Caine the sword bad him breake the peace So from that day vnto this houre Cain hath the sworde in hande Seking still Abell to deuoure either by sea or lande For by the deuils great enuie came death amongst mankynde And all that his dere children be fulfill their fathers mynde Dere christians be not nowe afraide to doe your maisters will For he doth promise to be your aide and your defence from ill His mercy is to succour those that trust to him at neede Feare not for God will your bands lose as he hath promised Therfore sticke harde vnto the worde the whiche you haue professed And then no doubt but that the Lorde will see your cause redressed Now seing we shall deliuered be as Esdras doth declare By death or life what cause haue we either to doubt or care But onely in our Lorde Iesus to put our confidence who in these daies is vnto vs a tower and strong defence All prayse be to the liuing God which iudgeth righteously And in all ages fulfyls his worde his name to magnify Finis ¶ The wordes of Maister Houper at his death O Lord Iesus that for whose loue I leaue wyllyngly this lyfe and desyre the bytter death of the crosse with the losse of all my worldlye thinges then eyther to abyde the blasphemie of thy moste holye name or to abey vnto menne in breakynge of thy Commaundementes thou seest Lorde that where I myght lyue in wealth to worship a false god and to honour thine ennemy I choose rather the tormentes of my bodye and the losse of this my lyfe and I haue counted all thynges but vile dust and donge that I mighte wyn thee whiche death is more deare vnto mee then thousandes of gold and syluer such loue Lorde hast thou laid vp in my brest that I honger for thee as the deare that is wounded desireth the soile so send thy holy comforter to ayde comfort and strengthen this weke peece of yearthe whiche is of it selfe empty of al strēgth thou remembrest that I am but vyle duste and donge and of my selfe able to doo nothinge therfore O Lorde as thou of thine a customed loue hast bidden me to this banket counted me worthi to drink of this thy cuppe amōgest thine elect giue me strēgth against this thy ellyment that as to my sight it is moste yrkesom vntolerable so to mi mind it may at thy commaundemēt go as an obediēt seruaunt be swete and plesant and through the strength of thy holy spirite I may passe through the fury of this fire into thy bosom according to thi promisse and for this mortal lyfe receyue an immortalitie and for this corruptible receiue an incorruptibilite accept this bornt sacrifcie O heauenly Father not for the sacrifice sake but for thy dere sonnes sake my sauiour for whose testimoni I offer this my free wyl offering with al my hart with al mi strength with al my soule Oh heauenli father forgeue mee my sinnes as I forgeue all the worlde O swete sonne of God my sauyour sprede thy winges ouer me O God the holy ghost comforte strengthen and stablish me and as through thy mighty power thou hast brought me hyther to death so condyth me in to euerlasting blisse O Lord into thy handes I commende my spirite thou haste redemed me O God of truthe Lorde haue mercye vpon me Christ haue mercy vpon me Lord haue mercy vpon me Amen ¶ Finis ¶ These are the wordes that Maister Iohn Houper wrote on the wall with a cole in the newe Inne in Gloceter the night before he suffered COntent thy selfe with pacience w t christ to beare y e crosse of payne ●ho can or will recompence ● thousand folde with Ioyes againe ●et nothing cause thy hart to fayle ●ainch out thy bote hoise vp thy saile Put from the shore ●nd be thou suer thou shalt attayne ●nto the porte that shall remayne For euer more ●ere not death pas not for bandes ●nly in God put thy whole trust ●r he wil require thi blod at their hāds ● thou dost know y t once die thou must Only for that thy life if thou geue ●eth is no deth but amens for to liue Do not dispaire Of no worldly tirant see thou dreede ●y cōpace whiche is gods worde shall the leade ●nd the wind is faire ¶ Finis TWO NOTABLE Sermons Made by that worthy Martyr of Christ Master Iohn Bradford the one of Repentance and the other of the Lords Supper now newly imprinted Perused and allowed according to the Queenes Maiesties Iniunctions Imprinted at London by Simon Stafford dwelling on Adling hill 1599. To the Christian Reader Thomas Samson wisheth the felicity of speedy and full conuersion to the Lord. GOdly learned men doe write and publish bookes to profit the age in which they doe liue and the posterity This desire was in the Authour of this ●reatise Master Iohn

Naboth brought their bloud to the ground for dogs to eate yea their children were hanged vp and slaine for this geare but wee continue in malice enuie and murther as though wee were able to wage warre with the Lord. Dauids adulterie with Bethsabe was visited on y e child borne on Dauids daughter defiled by her brother and on his children one slaying another his wiues defiled by his owne sonne and himselfe driuen out of his Realme in his old age and otherwise also although he most heartily repented his sinne But wee are more déere vnto God then Dauid which yet was a man after Gods owne heart or else we could not but tremble and begin to repent The rich gluttons gay paunch filling what did it it brought him to hell and haue we a placcard that God will doe nothing to vs Achans subtill theft prouoked Gods anger against all Israel and our subtiltie yea open extortion is so fine and politike that God can not espie it Gehezi his couetousnesse brought it not the Leprosie vpon him and on all his séed Iudas also hanged himselfe But the couetousnesse of England is of another cloth colour Well if it were so the same Tallor will cut it accordingly Anania and Saphira by lying linked to them sudden death but ours now prolongeth our life the longer to last in eternall death The false witnes of the two Iudges against Susanna lighted on their own pates and so will ours doe at length But what goe I about to auouch ancient examples where dayly experience doth teach The Sweate the other yéere the stormes the Winter following will vs to weigh them in the same balances The hanging and killing of men themselues which are alas too rife in all places require vs to register thē in the same roules At the least in Children Infants and such like which yet cannot vtter sinne by word or déed wée sée Gods anger against sinne in punishing them by sicknesse death mishappe or otherwise so plainly that we cannot but grone and grunt againe in that we haue gushed out this geare more aboundantly in word and déed And héere with me a little looke on Gods anger yet so fresh that we cannot but smel it although wee stoppe our noses neuer so much I pray God we smell it not more fresh hereafter I meane it forsooth for I know you looke for it in our déere late Soueraigne Lord the Kings Maiestie You al know he was but a Child in yéeres defiled he was not with notorious offences Defiled quoth he nay rather adorned with so many good gifts and wonderfull qualities as neuer Prince was from the beginning of the world Should I speake of his wisedome of his ripenesse in iudgement of his learning of his godly zeale heroical heart fatherly care for his Commons nurcely solicitude for Religion c. Nay so many things are to bee spoken in commendation of Gods excéeding graces in this Child that as Salust writeth of Carthage I had rather speake nothing then too litle in that too much is too little This gift God gaue vnto vs English men before all Nations vnder the Sunne and that of his excéeding loue towards vs. But alas and welaway for our vnthankefulnes sake for our sinnes sake for our carnalitie and prophane liuing Gods anger hath touched not onely the body but also the mind of our King by a long sicknesse and at length hath taken him away by death death cruell death fearefull death O if Gods iudgement be begun on him which as he was the chiefest so I thinke the holyest and godlyest in the Realme of England alas what will it be on vs whose sinnes are ouergrowne so our heads that they are climed vp into heauē I pray yo● my good brethren know that Gods anger for our sin towards vs cannot but be great yea too fell in that we sée it was so great that our good King could not beare it What followed to Iewrie after the death of Iosias God saue England and giue vs repentance my heart will not suffer me to tarie longer héerein I trow this will thrust out some teares of repentance If therefore to prayer for Gods feare the tooting in Gods glasse and the tag thereto will not burst open thy blockish heart yet I trow the tossing to and fro of these examples and specially of our late King and this troublesome time will tumble some teares out of thine heart if thou still pray for Gods spirit accordingly For who art thou thinke alwayes with thy selfe that GOD should spare thée more then them whose examples thou hast heard What friends hast thou Were not of these Kings Prophets Apostles learned and come of holy stocks I deceiue my selfe thinke thou with thy selfe if I beléeue that God béeing the same God that he was wil spare me whose wickednesse is no lesse but much more then some of theirs Hee hateth sinne now as much as euer hee did The longer hee spareth the greater vengeance will fall the déeper hee draweth his Bow the sorer will the shaft pierce But if yet thy heart be so hardened that all this geare will not mooue thée surely thou art in a very euill estate and remedie now I know none What said I none Know I none Yes there is one which is suresby as they say to serue if any thing will serue You looke to know what this is Forsooth the Passion and death of Iesus Christ You know the cause why Christ became man and suffered as he suffered was the sinnes of his people that he might saue them from the same Consider the greatnesse of the sore I meane sinne by the greatnes of the Surgion and the salue Who was the Surgion No Angell no Saint no Archangell no power no creature in heauen nor in earth but onely hée by whom all things were made all things are ruled also euen Gods owne deareling and onely beloued Sonne becomming man Oh what a great thing is this that could not be done by the Angelles Archangelles Potentates Powers or all the creatures of God without his owne Sonne who yet must néeds be thrust out of heauen as a man would say to take our nature and become man Heere haue yee the Surgion great was the cure that this mightie Lord tooke in hand Now what was the salue Forsooth déere geare and of many compositions I cannot recite all but rather must leaue it to your hearty considerations Thrée and thirtie yéeres was he curing our sore Hée sought it earnestly by fasting watching praying c. The same night that hee was betrayed I reade how busie he was about a plaister in the garden when he lying flat on the ground praying with teares and that of bloud not a few but so many as did flow downe on the ground againe crying on this sort Father sayth hée if it bee possible let this cup depart from me That is If it be possible that else the sinnes of mankind can be taken away graunt that it may be so

Nam veniens veniet non tardabit Hee is comming and will not be long Thus haue you foure meanes which you must vse to the attayning of faith or certaine perswasion of Gods mercie towards you which is the second part of penance namely prayer the free and vniuersall promises of Gods graces the recordation of the benefits of God past and present the examples of Gods mercie Which although they might suffice yet will I put one more to them which all onely of it selfe is full sufficient I meane the death of the Sonne of God Iesus Christ which if thou set before the eyes of thy mind it will confirme thy placcard for it is the great Seale of England as they say yea of all the world for the confirmation of all patents and perpetuities of the euerlasting life whereunto we are all called If I thought these which I haue before recited were not sufficient to cōfirme your faith of Gods loue towards such as do repent I would tarie longer herein But because I haue béene both long and also I trust you haue some exercise of conscience in this daily or els you are too blame I wil but touch goe Consider with your selues what we are misers wretches enemies to God Consider what God is euen hée which hath all power maiestie might glory riches c. perfectly of himselfe needeth nothing but hath all things Consider what Christ is concerning his Godhead coequal with his Father euen hee by whom all things were made are ruled and gouerned concerning his manhood the onely Dearling of his Father in whom is all his ioy Now Sir what a loue is this that this God which néedeth nothing would giue wholy his owne selfe to thée his enemie wreaking his wrath vpon him selfe in this his Sonne as a man may say to spare thée to saue thée to winne thée to buie thée to haue thée to enioy thée for euer Because thy sinne hath separated thée from him to the end thou mightest come eftsoones into his company againe and therein remaine hee himselfe became as a man would say a sinner or rather sinne it selfe euen a malediction or curse that wée sinners wee accursed by our sinne might by his oblation or offering for our sinnes by his curse be deliuered from sinne and from malediction For by sinne hee destroyed sinne killing Death Sathan and Sinne by their owne weapons and that for thée and mee man if wee cast it not away by vnbeleefe Oh wonderfull loue of God Who euer heard of such a loue the Father of Heauen for vs his enemies to giue his owne deare Sonne Iesus Christ and that not onely to bee our Brother to dwell among vs but also to the death of the Crosse for vs Oh wonderfull loue of Christ to vs all that was content and willing to worke this feate for vs. Was there any loue like to this loue God in déede hath commended his charitie and loue to vs heerein that when wee were very enemies vnto him hee would giue his owne Sonne for vs. That wee béeing men might become as you would say Gods God would become man That wee beeing mortall might become immortall the immortall God would become mortall man That we earthly wretches might be Citizens of Heauen the Lord of Heauen would become as a man would say earthly That wee beeing accursed might be blessed God would bee accursed That wee by our father Adam beeing brought out of Paradise into the puddle of all paine might be redeemed and brought into Paradise againe God would bee our Father and an Adam thereunto That we hauing nothing might haue all things God hauing all things would haue no thing That wee beeing vassailes and slaues to all euen to Sathan the Fiend might be Lords of all and of Sathan the Lord of all would become a vassaile and a slaue to vs all and in danger of Sathan Oh loue incomprehensible Who can otherwise thinke now but if the gracious good Lorde disdayned not to giue his owne Sonne his owne hearts ioy for vs his very enemies before wée thought to begge any such thing at his hands yea before we were who I say can thinke otherwise but that with him hee will giue vs all good things If when we hated him and fled away from him he sent his Sonne to séeke vs who can thinke otherwise then that now wee louing him and lamenting because we loue him no more but that he wil for euer loue vs He that giueth the more to his enemies wil not hée giue the lesse trow you to his friends God hath giuen his owne Sonne then which thing nothing is greater to vs his enemies and wee now béeing become his friends will he deny vs faith and pardon of our sins which though they bee great yet in comparison they are nothing at all Christ Iesus would giue his owne selfe for vs when wee willed it not and will he now deny vs faith if we will it This will is his earnest that hee hath giuen vs truely to looke indéed for the thing willed And looke thou for it in déed for as he hath giuen thee to will so will he giue thée to doe Iesus Christ gaue his life for our euils and by his death he deliuered vs. O then in that hee liueth now and can not die will he forsake vs His heart bloud was not too deare for vs when we asked it not what can then bee now too deare for vs asking it Is he a changeling Is he mutable as man is Can hee repent him of his gifts Did he not foresée our falles Payd not he therefore the price Because hee saw wee should fall sore therefore would hee suffer sore Yea if his suffering had not béene enough he would yet once more come again God the Father I am sure if the death of his Sonne incarnate would not serue would himselfe and the holy Ghost also become incarnate and die for vs. This death of Christ therefore looke on as the very pledge of Gods loue towards thée whosoeuer thou art how deepe soeuer thou hast sinned See Gods hands are nayled they cannot strike thee his feete also he cannot runne from thee his armes are wide open to embrace thee his head hangs downe to kisse thee his very heart is open so that therein see toote looke spie peepe and thou shalt see nothing therein but loue loue loue loue to thee hyde thee therefore lay thy head there with the Euangelist This is the clift of the Rocke wherein Helias stood This is the pillow of downe for all aking heads Anoint thy head with this oyle let this oyntment enbaulme thy head and wash thy face Tarie thou heere and cocke sure thou art I warrant thee Say with Paul What can separate me from the loue of God Can death can pouertie sickenesse hunger or any miserie perswade thee now that God loueth thee not Nay nothing can separate thee from the loue wherewith God hath loued thee in Christ Iesus