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A08269	A theatre wherein be represented as wel the miseries & calamities that follow the voluptuous worldlings as also the greate ioyes and plesures which the faithfull do enioy. An argument both profitable and delectable, to all that sincerely loue the word of God. Deuised by S. Iohn van-der Noodt. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed.; Theatre oft Toon-neel. English	Noot, Jan van der, ca. 1538-ca. 1596.; Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.; Roest, Theodore.; Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Rime. English. Selections.; Du Bellay, Joachim, 1525 (ca.)-1560. Visions. English. Selections.	1569 (1569)	STC 18602; ESTC S110162	92,217	282

troubled you scornefully intreated yea and by hir Traditions iudged and condemned you euen vnto death so nowe do ye likewise rebuke hir and exhorte hir of hir wyckednesse iudge hir like a very harlot and condemne hir by the mightie and true worde of God to euerlasting fire whiche can not be quenched And giue hir double according to hir workes And in the cup that she hath filled to you fill hir the double That is render vnto hir double in all punishmentes and giue vnto hir euen for worldly punishements whiche she hath brought vpon the elect of God hellishe torments For corporal and bodily troubles and vexations eternal pains and torment of the minde for the blame and ignomynie of thys worlde perp●tuall shame and confusion for temporall death euerlastyng damnation both of body and soule And the cup. c. That is al kinde of troubles aduersities and miseries whiche she filled to you out of hir cup that is caused to come vpon you shal be doubled to hir againe for as it is sayd she shall receyue for temporall euils euerlasting The holy Ghost calleth here double that which is withoute comparison euen as a little tyme to no time or euerlastingnesse Hir pleasure and ioy shall be conuerted into sorowes and griefes hir mery and pleasaunt talke hir iestyngs and laughyngs into weepyng mournyng wringyng of handes and gnashyng of teeth Hir commaundings shal be turned into crauings hir reuerence into contempt hir honoure into shame c. For she hathe pretended moste faynedly an holy kynde of priesthode she boasteth and braggeth much o● that whiche they are furthest from She hath vsurped and wrōgfully taken vpon hir and proudely claimed vnto hir a royall maiestie and highnesse Whiche two kynde of dignities she hath yet worse vsed lette hir there●ore wayte and attende on the plagues and punishementes due vnto hir pernicious temeritie and arrogancie Take away hir pleasaunt Euphrates wyth the spoyle and greate reuenues wherewithall she hath hytherto so vniustly maintained and kepte hir selfe and throw hir in the deepe pit of all mis●ries and wretchednesse For she sayth in hir heart I sitte being a Queene enuironned with ioy and pleasure I am the chiefe of the vniuersall worlde on me dependeth the Catholike and holy Churche I haue authoritie and power in Heauen earth and Hell I haue also might to binde and to loose to saue and condempne It standeth not with me as it doth with th●se that be not of this worlde for all thyngs here are at my commaundement I am no widowe I am not d●solate The hyghest powers and gouernours of thys worlde do assiste and defende mee putting to death al those that lay against me Nero Domitian Traian or Maxence were neuer more addicted to the defence of my predecessours than are now adays the Princes of our tyme readie to maintaine wyth fire and faggot my Decrées Traditions and Ceremonies Therefore I shall see no mournyng I shall continue alwayes I shall be called Madame at all tymes my kyngdome shall abyde for euer my seate shall no man take awaye from me I shall neuer fall nor any euil can come vppon mée After thys sorte boaste wyth no small presumption our Papistes also saying That the lyttle vessell of Sain●● Peter may wel by the reason of weather and tempeste be shaken and with the waues of the sea troubled but neuer can be ouerwhelmed or perishe hereby goyng aboute to proue that theyr superstitious and Romyshe churche should abyde styll and neuer be ouerthrowne But they consider not of what abilitie and power the Lambe is whiche abideth vppon the mount Syon against whom they stick and make warre against continually whose congregation and little flocke they persecu●e daily with great tyrannie crueltie and rigorousnesse Therfore shal hir plagues come at one day God shall once poure vpon this wicked race malignant ●hurch Death sorowes hunger and sw●rde● euen as he dyd sende vpon the ●ynfull Cities ●ire and Brymstone They shal be depriued for euer of the life w●iche is in Christe Iesu they shall remaine in sobbes and teares t●ey shal not ceasse to mourne to wring their handes and gnashe their teeth they shall be inheritours o● eue●lastyng darkenesse theyr worme shall neuer die they shall hunger and neuer be sati●fied And this whoore with the whole generation of hypocri●es shall be burnt with vnquencheable fyr● pr●pared for the deuyl and his au●gels This sent●nce is not so seuere as true for the Lorde who shal iudge them is of power and might he is holy and fait●ful in mercie true in his worde and promise maruellous in all his workes fearefull terrible and righteous in his iudgement● against the wycked No man then shall be able in those dayes to withdrawe any part of the threatned vengeaun●e of hys wrath from the euill doer Neither oure Lady with castyng of hir b●ades into the ballaunces of S. Michaell neyther S. Iohn Baptist with hys lambe holdyng a crosse neyther S. Peter wyth hys Key nor S. Paule wyth his sworde as they vse to make them yea and if Moyses Samuel and the rest of the Prophetes with Noe Dauid and Iob would make intercession yet shoulde they not be hearde And the Kings of the earth namely the worldly and carnall Princes whiche haue committed fornication and lyued in pleasure with hir in all vncleannesse and filthynesse shall bewaile hir when they shall see hir ouerthrowen and so yll intreated it shall grieue them sore that they may or can not maintaine and defende hir with water fyre and sworde against ●od and hys saincts for they shall be nothyng well pleased with the ordinaunces and institutions of Christe bycause they doe hate nothyng more than the workes of the spirite that is to frame theyr liues according to the will of God It shall anger them to the hearte that they are not able to burne still and slay all those that speake write or preache agaynst the deedes of the fleshe and do reproue them of their fornication adulterie and theyr mischeuous and inordinate lyfe and rebuke them of theyr moste abhomynable idolatrie And lamente ouer hir when they shall see the smoke of hir burnyng And shall stande a farre of for feare of hir tormentes crying and saying Alas alas that greate citie Babylon that m●ghtie Citie Alas our mother the holy Churche of Rome so many holy fathers Popes Cardinalles and Byshops Alas for our Monkes Chanons and Friers with their so holy so deuoute and straight lyu●s and rude garmentes Alas for so many Pardons Indulgences and confessions so many principall bye Feastes Holy dayes and gay Coapes and Garmentes Alas for oure holy Water holy Candelles holye Palmes holye Ashes hallowed Belles organs play and prick song and the res● of our so gay ceremonies With these and the lyke wordes shall they bewayle hir trembling and quakyng for feare crying out on this maner Wo wo to that

time many other realmes as of the Chaldes and great Cart●age and other ar likewyse perished So Rome neuer obtained the like estimation since as it had before being in his floure as it is to be séene yet by some auncient monuments buildings columnes walles which appere there as yet to beare witnesse of Gods vengeance which came vpon them for their sin and wickednesse to the ende that all godly and well disposed persons mighte perceiue that God can and will perfourme his promises the which he hath thretned in his worde Besides all this the Romaine Empire hath ben without an Emperour .iij. hundred twentie yeares nam●ly since Augustus vntill Charlemayn In the meane time the Bishop of Rome began to forget all maner of simplicitie humblenesse and pouertie and to neglect the seruice and administration of a true pastoure and to put his minde vpon temporall dominion and rule beginning so through the liberalitie of many great Princes as King Pepin and manye other great Lordes which he inchaunted vnder the pretence of holinesse to become so great that at length he hath set him selfe in the cha●re as soueraigne aboue all the rest that euen Emperoures were at his commaūdement elect and deposed For the feruent zeale deuotion was in many Christians already cold many of them were addicted and giuen to worldly quietnesse great estate and all maner of intēperancie and voluptuousnesse so that they had more mind to securitie and idlenesse than to labor and paine to sleepe than to work to take than to giue to banquet than to preache and had rather to take their pleasure in this wicked world than to enioy the heauenly pleasures in the world to come After this dissention rose amongst them for the supremacy then sought they ambitiously to rule and gouerne euer all the whole world They wold wel be confessors as they termed them but few or none woulde be Martirs for preachyng was cast aside and pride had occupied the roum of it wherupon did folow of necessitie as Scripture speaketh where as Gods word is not preached ther the people perish many and diu●rs heresies schismes and sects as Sabellians Arrians Emonians Macedonians Priscellians Nestorians and Eutichians which diuers and sundry wayes erred in the doctrine and faith cōcerning the diuinitie The Mani●hes contempned and made light of the olde Testament The Donatis●s did holde it necessary to be rebaptised again The Pelagians taught that men could deserue heauen by merits without grace other like to thē Amongst the Bishops was discorde in all places In the R●mish church were many mutations about their el●ction Betwene Liberius Feliciꝰ was great dis●ord about y ● popeship Likewise was it betwéen Damasiꝰ Vrcisiꝰ Boniface Aulatiꝰ Simache and Laurence Boniface and Dioscore Constātine and Philip Eugenius and Sisine Formosie and Stephē S●rgie and Christopher Benedict and Leo Gregorie and dyuers other Amongest which many were accused of heresies some of incest and some of other kyndes of euill of whiche some were banished some deposed some s●landred some had their eyes put out other some miserably slaine and murdered no practises fraudes guiles nor violence or oppression was left behind to none other ende than to attaine vnto promotion honor dignitie and great estate and to obtaine their malicious purpose After this sorte did the bishops procéede in al kindes of vanitie and idlenesse to become loytering prelates puffed vp in pride and presumption wherby veritie and truth was defaced and quite abolished The Sunne began nowe to be darkened and become blacke as a hairen cloath and the Moone like vnto bloud the starres of heauen to fall downe For they dayly practised to get newe and more dominions they attempted by al means possible to increase their aucthoritie and power all their whole study and labour was to aduaunce their h●nour and dignitie héere vpon the earth not without scattering of the commons and innumerable murthers of the people Iohn Archbishop of Constantinople debated to be Primate and soueraign of all other Patriarkes Boniface the third of that name Bishop of Rome tooke vpon him to raigne and rule ouer all and to be the lieuetenāt of God vpon earth Again Mahomet comming afterward would be adored as a great prophet and messanger of God So that by the meanes of couetousnesse ambition and carnall concupiscence the truth is darkened the church of Christ moste miserably scattered and dispearsed The I●wes by a craftie sleight wrested the scripture to maintaine their Talmuith the Sarazens their Alcorane and these prelates and Bishops their Decretals and all other errors and herisie● which were vnder that false prophet Mahomet in Asia and Affricke and vnder the Pope in Europe with all their curssed traditions and trifles They haue banished abolished Christe and his doctrine euery where preferryng their owne ambition profit cōmoditie ease Whervnto to obtain it the rather they haue brought in many superstitions traditions of men as Latin seruice bicause y e comon people should not vnderstād their doings bells organs play cymbales incense palmes candles tapers purgatori● masses for al soules diriges obsequies Pilgrimages indulgences to deliuer the soules out of purgatorie after thei haue gotten money inough Item church holy days Rogatiō dayes Relikes yea coales wherwith S. Laurence was broyled Iosephs ●osen the armes of S. Cornelis with many more trifles and other relikes They proc●ed further to the forbidding of mariage meate egges butter in lyke manner images and crucifixes were sette vp woorkyng thereby false miracles alwayes foreseing to their Mao●in that is great shops churches temples chapels and Altars where they might sell their trumperie fréely not without great gain yea so wel that they were mounted ●o hie in power riches and voluptuousnesse as we haue se●ne by experience and dayely is to be seene in places where they are that they rule aboue emperors kings princes all this vnder a shewe of pietie and holynesse as we heretofore haue say●e Of these S. Iohn in his reuelation doth warn vs in his sixte chapiter where he sayeth manifestly that whē the lambe had opened the seuēth seale he saw a pale horse and he whiche satte vpon it was named death for this cōgregation of hipocrites notwithstanding their copper faces and carbuncled noses through their vnmeasurable gluttony and dronkennesse are yet in their soule pale deadish black and blew as vnholsom dead bodies for th●i haue no true life within thē nor y e blessednesse that co●sistet● in Christ Iesu his holy word And he which sate on it was death Their doctrine and teaching is nothing but death and damnation For hypocrisie eng●ndreth nothing but des●ruction of saluatiō their f●uits are shame and confusion For hell foloweth them to destroy those that are seduced by them Daniel and Paule they haue foretold that Antechrist shoulde be borne of the subuersion of the Empire and

enuie dissimulation falshoode and inconstancie vaine glorie iniquitie sorcerie superstition and impietie than doth in this one dominion of Antechrist He alone hath more contaminated Gods holy Temple than all the infidels together that euer were they haue most shamefullye intreated and iudged the very electe people of God which are the vessels of his glory They haue most miserably and narowly kept vnder and as it were in prison the true Minister● of God by their Decrées and traditions The seueritie and rudenesse of Pharao Antioche and Caiphas is nothing in the comparison of theirs for in them is all kind of beastlinesse vncleanlinesse wantonnesse concupiscence and carnall securitie No reason or humanitie hath any place amongst them they are more lyke beasts than men The rigorous Proclamations against the Iewes at the request of wicked Ammon and of Antioche are nothing to speake of to the ordinaunces and statutes of the Antechrists for those were only against the body but theirs are against the soule and conscience of man also After this sort doth the Popedō which is the dominiō of Antechrist bear the Image of the Leopard of the Bear of the Liō bicause it is not only partaker of al y e wickednesses with oth●r realmes but it excéedeth and surmounteth al other vi● times double in all kinde of iniquitie idolatrie abhominations y t euer were cōmitted vnder heauen They haue the mouth of a Lyon always blasphemyng cursing and banning Their feete lyke a beare signifiyng their insatiab●e couetousnesse runnyng headlong to euery kinde of mischiefe very ready to sheade bloud as leopards are they polluted and spotted with dyuers and sundry inconstant mindes institutions obseruings neuer stedfast or constant but in al thinges chaungeable and foolishe for suche as receiue not Gods truthe are worthily forsaken of God Therfore God shall sende them strong delusions that they shoul● beleeue lies that all they might be damned which beleue not the truth but haue pleasure in vnrighteousnesse The D●agon sayth S. Iohn which is Sathan the Diuell● gaue to the beast or cursed generation of Antechrist his beastly membres his whole power his seate of blasphemie and his great authoritie To giue them his power is nothyng else than to make them perfect and skilfull by all maner of crafte subtiltie and dissimulation cunnyngly to seduce the simple silly soules and so forth to confirme and stablysh them in al kinde of wickednesse and falshods To gyue vn●o hym his seate is to leaue him he●e a glorious kingdome full of vain glory ●is●imulation other wickednesse To giue him hi● great authoritie is to worke by false miracles signes and wonders and by false and ●rr●nious do●●rine to allure the p●●ple and to draw the vnb●leuing infidels the rather to the p●t of perditiō and euerlasting torments On this maner is that greate Antechrist a king with Sathan ●uer all the children of pride and darknesse He occupieth and possesseth ●alsly with Lucifer the seat and ●oume of God taking vpon hym euen to search and créepe into mens consciences For he b●steth him self to stand in Gods stede to deceiue th●m that ●well on the earth to reigne and to beare rule ouer them for so much as they hauing a blind guide are l●d into the ditche of all errour and false doctrine the very way vnto euerlasting pe●dition Touchyng the seat euen as Christe our Lorde with his Father raigning eternally sitteth in heauen vpon the seate of his Maiestie in eternall glory felicitie euē so sitteth ●ntechrist the Pope of Rome I mean● with his ●ather the Deuil full of pride and blasphemie in the seat of cōdemnation in eternal darknesse ignomie and shame Cōcerning his power euen as Christ receiued his power of God his father euen so hath he rec●iued his authoritie of his father the Deuil Euen as Christ is full of mercy truthe euen so is this Antechrist ful of enuie and hate vntruthes and lies and al other mischiefs of whose abhominations errors the vnbeleuing and infidel hath tasted As the holy ghost and the sprite of Christ openeth the misteries of the truth in his elect euen so on the other side hath the spirit of erroure since the death and reuelation of Christ darkned truth and set forth the secretes of his malice in the ennimies of Christ. Cōcerning his aucthority as christ being man receiued his aucthority of god to doe such miracles as no man else could do Euen so doth this Antichrist by the Deuill and Gods permission amongs the infidels and vnbeleuers So that he in all power and aucthoritie vniustly vsurped foloweth yea passeth his father the deuil For as he robbed the godly man Iob and spoiled him of all his substance goods children seruaunts and cattel and tormēted him in his body with ●oils and Botches euen so doth this rauenous and greadye Leuiathan and cruell murtherer vexe consume and oppresse the poore people by his spoiling Grashoppers defrauding the poore of their sweat and bloud of theyr paines trauaile necessitie and liuing no not sparing the féeble and sicke neyther widow nor fatherlesse No kind of good be it neuer so vniustly gotten being brought to them in shriuing of some one burdened in conscience but that they are cōtented to receiue it and that by the way of restitution Yet neuerthelesse do they which is worst of all lead mennes mindes to dissimulatiō false belief and other diuelishnesse doubtfull desperate and comfortlesse Finally euen as in the body of Christ dwelleth fulnesse of the whole Deitie Euen so in this body of Sathan dwelleth the whole masse of impietie subtilitie fraud and malice with power to worke all maner of mischiefe mightely substantially and corporally And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death with the sword of his mouth that is through the anouncing and preaching of the Gospell Which thing is come to passe since the time of Iohn Hus in Boheme after that in Germanie and is since God be praised daily more and more that the head of the Beast is wounded in places where gods word is preached As in England Fraunce Scotland Poland and else where as euery one may wel perceiue except he will needes be blinde For it is euident to al men that in most places Buls and Pardones of the Pope are little set by hys power and might troden vnder féete hys name blotted out his Purgatory Masses Pilgrimages Idols and other like trumperies cried out vpon If this be not a deadly wound on the head of the beast I think it to haue none at all If this be not a manifest token of his fall to come there is none to be looked for But his deadly woundes were healed Although the Gospel hath ben preched in sundry and diuers places and the popes abhominations cast vpside downe yet remaineth in some places their false priesthood vows not to mary Sodomish chastitie auricular

it is come to passe in many places in our dayes to diuers Friers Monkes or Priests which setting themselues for the defēce of the Romish church were killed and slaine And yet shall it be with them euen as Baals Priests with the prophet Helias about the riuer Rison but are yet spiritually by a mistery of that which hath bene foretold For the Foules as ye shall heare shall consume hir flesh For god hath saith the Angell put in their hearts to fulfill his will God hath giuen by inspiration of his holy spirite in the minds of those aforsaid and such like persons to accomplishe in this behalfe his secrete will and pleasure Namely to roote out wholy and altogither that false and hipocriticall religion to suffer no longer the enormitie and foule abhominatiō of that Antechrist After all these manifold Reuelations I saw an other angel saith S. Iohn signifying the true ministers and preachers sent in these our dayes As also in the .vj. Chapter of the Reuelation is made mentiō of the Angell which had the seale of the liuing God Again in the .x. chapter of the angel which was enuironed with the cloud and in the .xiiij. Chapter of the Angell which published and cried out the fall of Babilon comming from heauen downeward All which is to declare that the godly preachers are sent of God hauing receiued great power feruent zeale and stedfastnesse of the spirite of God to declare and pronounce the wil of god valiantly to the ouerthrow of that pes●ilent whore For like as the father hath the life within him euen so hath his sōne Christ Iesu also and in him liue his seruauntes without any feare And the earth was light of his brightnesse Not of the Angell which was but a Messanger was the earth lightned but of the power which was giuen vnto him Wher Gods word is once truely preached there the whole earth is lightned of the brightnesse of the glory of God And this Angell cried aloud she is fallen That great Babilon which was so proud hie minded so common a whore that blasphemous sinagoge of the hipocrites is turned vpside downe She is by the iust iudgement of God brought to great ignomie and shame Hir first ouerthrow was when as the prince of this world was ouercome and vanquished through y e death of our sauiour Iesus Christ. Consider and ponder we●●●● your minde the destruction of Ierusalem after what sort the Iewish seruice ceased and tooke an end namely when the materiall temple was throwne down and not one stone left vpon an other Now in this our time she shal haue a more sharper and seuere iudgement through the publishing preaching of gods word to the comfort of all beléeuers Which although it be somewhat as it were deferred yet let them be as well assured of this hir iudgement to come as we know and certainly beleeue the other to be come Cal to remembrāce and compare this place with the haling plucking downe of Abbays Frieries and other religious houses as they cal them in Germanie England and in other places and make your accompts that more and more sorowes shal happen and surely fal vpon hir shortly The occasion of hir fall and the desolation be●ore the lord is this She is become a dwelling place to deuils more than euer she was before hir first fall for now enter they a great many at once yea wel seuen for one And she is become a keeper of vncleane sprites For all manner of Idolatrie is maintained and kept by hir spirituall Courtiers and holy fath●rs as they call them as be their Bishops and pries●s Here raigneth Simonie bying and selling of benefices sacriledge vsurie ambition fraude couetousnesse desire of money to shed bloud enuie malice lecherie gluttonie pride vncleannesse and all other wickednesse She is become a sauegard or cage of all vnclene and execrable birdes For in hir dwelleth the adulterous Bishops the buggerous Cardinals and lecherous Prelates and a heape of Sodomitish Monks and Friers Nunnes and Sisters All these compareth Esay the Prophet to wilde beastes namely to Dragons Ostriches Eagles Monkeis Owles Mermaides and other rauenous and greadie birdes and monsterous and straunge beasts for amongst them hath bene vsed alwayes and is yet at this present all manner of vaine and foolishe toyes as mockings scoffings and iestings with crossing coniuring gasing singing playing and diuers other folish straunge fashions to mocke God withall Heere we might speak and reherse many things Namely of the keeping of their stewes and how they goe a whoring two maner of wayes wher●unto we might ioyne and declare what gaine and profite the ruffian prelates get thereby As it is to be séene nam●ly at Rome what reuenues and rents that great and soueraign ru●●ian getteth by his whoores And afterward of the drouning and killing of childrē and secretly murthering and casting in corners and ditches as is vsually practised amongst these riggish and lecherous prelat●s It is ●allen For all the kinreds and nations of the world except a very fewe of simple and seely souls which god through his vnspeakeable goodnesse mercy and grace hath chosen and predestinated to him selfe Haue dro●k●n of the wyne of the wrath of hir fornication Bicause they haue not rendred thank●s to almightye God when occasion oportunitie and time serued therefore they are fallen into that bottomlesse pit of all errour and abhomination to the losse both of body and soul. They haue very carefully and narowly searched to runne a whoring after their hurtfull and damnable witchcraftes and inchauntments beleuing and crediting their false doctrine and teachings and so consequently apply thē selues to expresse it in their conuersation and liuing And the Kings of the earth not hauing before their eyes the loue and feare of God haue committed formcation with thys vile and filthie whoore Yelding thē selues to many false Idolatrous and straunge worshippings In such sorte that by the teachings admonitions and persuasions of their holy fornicatours they haue broken the bonde of peace and haue warred against the true children of God Which notwithstāding y t they haue wrongfully molested and troubled scornefully intreated and mocked viol●ntly oppressed and persecuted haue yet chasing and banishing them confiscated their lands and goodes turning their wiues and litle children out of the doores a begging Aboue all this so murther they and slay all such as they can catch and shed very much innocent bloud as hanging drowning or burning them most cruelly without any cause yea without any remorse of conscience euen as if there were neither hell nor heauen God nor deuil life nor death and as if there were no iudgement or no accoumptes to be giuen before God of all their doings and crueltie Also their mitred Merchaunts and shauen Massemongers factors and sellers of mennes soules are waxen very rich and welthy by

shall wax colde But so many as beare more loue to God and séeke more to please hym than the diuell they must take good heede to do that which pleaseth him according to his reuealed wil For whom it is not sufficient to know Antechri●t to blame him to speake and reporte of him as his doings deserue but it is requisit● for them most chiefly to confesse the name of the Lorde euen from their very hearts to honour feare him to beleue and put all confidēce in hym to loue hym and as neere as we can to expresse him in oure conuersation thorough loue vnfayned therby to shew oure selues to be hys Disciples For not euerye on● sayeth oure Sauioure Christe that sayeth Lorde Lorde shall enter into the Kyngdome of heauen but suche as doe the will of my father Again saythe Christe Whosoeuer louethe hys lyfe héere in thys worlde shall loose it and who so hateth his lyfe here for my names sake shal kéepe it to life euerlasting Againe he that will be my Disciple let hym folowe me and where I am he shal be also Who so serueth me my Father shall honoure hym The seruaunte is no better than hys maister and a messenger is no more than he that sente hym If we kéepe the commaundements of Christe we shall remaine in his loue euen as hée did the will of hys father and remayned in his loue Hys commaundement is that we loue one an other as he loued vs let vs therfore henceforth leade a good lyfe cōuersation according to the wyll of the Lorde and frame our lyfe to the doctrine and exaumple of our maister and Lorde Iesu Christ in kéeping the commaundementes of the Lorde Christe Lette vs not be wrathfull but loue one an other Praye sayeth the Lorde for them that persecute you and speake euyll of you and be ye perfect as I am perfecte That thys our sinful body might be destroyed and that henceforth wée serue sy●ne no more for he that is dead is frée from sinne Let vs then thinke that we are dead to sinne and liue not to our selues but to our Lorde and Sau●our Iesus Christ. Let not sinne saith the apostle S. Paule raigne in your mortall body that ye shoulde obey the lustes thereof but be ye true seruantes of righteousnesse vnto life not seruaunts of sinne of the fleshe or the world ●o death neyther gyue ye henceforth your mēbres as weapons of vnrighteousnesse vnto sinne but as weapons of righteousnesse vnto GOD. For when we were the seruauntes of synne we were not vnder righteousnesse what frute had we then in those things wherof we are nowe ashamed for the ende of those things is death but contrarywise the fruite of rightousnesse is euerlasting life Brethren it is now tyme to awake from sléepe forasmuche as the nyghte is passed and the day approcheth and is euen at hande God hath fréely sent his true and faithful ministers and giueth his woord plētifully to be preached let vs cast away then the workes of darkenesse and take vnto thée the armour of light walke honestly as in the daye time not in gluttonie dronkennesse nor in chambering wantonnesse nor in strife nor enuying but put ye on the Lord Iesus Christ take no thought for the fleshe to fulfill the lustes thereof but according to the good pleasure of God in al spiritual exercises The workes of the flesh are notorious manifest as adulterie fornication vncleanesse wantonnesse Idolatrie witchcraft hatred debate emulation wrathe contentions heresies enuie murthers dronkennesse gluttonie and suche like The workers whereof are y e most wretches and miserable slaues that euer wer yea they are threatned that who so euer cōmitteth such things shall not enherite the kingdom of heauē On the other side the fruit●s of y e spirit are loue ioy peace long suffering gētlenesse goodnesse faith méekenesse temperancie and suche like After this sort ought euery christian mā to walke being carefull to mortifie his own flesh exercising himself in these good works which God hath prepared for him to walke in casting of the old mā which is corrupt through deceiuable lusts be ye therfore renued in y e spirit of your mind and put ye on the new man which after god is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse Wherfore cast of lying speak euery man true vnto his neighbour For we are members y e one of the other Be angrie but sinne not let not the Sunne goe down vpon your wrath neither giue place to the Diuell Let him that stole steale no more but let him rather labour and work with his hands the thing that is good that he may haue to giue him that néedeth Let not corrupt communication procéed out of your mouth but that which is good to edifie withal that it may minister grace vnto the hearers And gréeue not the holy spirite of God by whom ye are sealed vnto the day of redēption Let all bitternesse anger and wrath crying and euil speaking be put away from you with all maliciousnesse Be ye courteous one to an other and tēder hearted forgiuing one an other euē as god for Christs sake forgaue you Be ye then followers of god as dear children walk in loue euē as Christ hath loued vs hath giuen him self for vs to be an offring and a sacrifice of a sweet smelling sauor to god So then fornication and all vncleannesse or couetousnesse let it not be once named amōg you as it becometh sainctes Neither vse ye filthinesse nor foolish talking neyther iesting which are things not comely but rather giuing of thāks For this ye must know that no whoremonger neither vncleane persō nor couetous person which is an Idolatour hath any inheritaunce in the kingdom of Christ of God Let no man deceiue you with vaine wordes for by such things cometh the wrath of God vpon the children of disobedience Be not therefore companions wyth them for so much as ye were once in darknesse but are now light in the lord walk therfore as it becometh children of light for the fruite of the spirit is in all goodnesse righteousnesse and truthe Approue and assay that which is pleasing to the Lord and haue no fellowship with the vnfruitful works of darknesse but euen reproue them rather take ye heede that ye walke circumspectly and wisely not like the foolish but as the wise and redeeme y e time for euen these dayes are euill and dangerous days Therfore be ye not ignorant but replenished with knowledge and spirite Let the woord of God dwell in you plentuously in all wisdom teaching and admonishing your own selues in psalms spirituall songs synging