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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

our comfortes I haue but somewhat assaied to playe Iohn Baptistes parte I am not he of whom you must receiue this good gifte but you must looke toward an other Therefore I say vnto you of him whose shoolatchet I am not worthy to vnloose Behold the Lambe of God who bringeth this comfort with him a salue me thinkes sufficient to heale all sores as that he is that Lambe that taketh away the sinnes of the worlde Nature hath so prouided that if we receiue any wound in the head the whelke that is in the hande the corne that is in the foote we soone forget lose the sense thereof O consider Sister howe your head was wounded then shall your handes and your feete the lesse grieue you Nowe againe our head is whole triūphing in heauen why then should our hearts be heauie on earth as though the head had forgotten the bodie or any part thereof No Sister doubte you not he will not suffer an heare to perishe of that bodie which he so dearely purchased seeing that this mightie Michael hath subdued our archenemy that terrible dragon and subtill serpent with his petie captaines death and hell what should we be so much moued with any force of the fleshe or any mischiefe that the worlde may worke vs Yea here also your Sauiour speaketh cōfortably vnto you saying Be of good there I haue ouercome the world Seeing that he hath broken the head of our enemy what should his taile so much trouble vs seing hee hath taken away our sinnes what should any sorowes remaine amongst vs if we sorowe not for our sinnes why doe we lament for any other earthly trifle So Sister if your eye be fully fixed on Christ your redeemer seing his paines and his patience you may not but quiet your selfe considering his merites and his mercie you can nothing mistruste but he that tooke away the greater burthen of your sinnes will also open you a waye out of your sorowes so that nowe you haue no occasion left of mistrust in the goodnes of god For he that gaue vs his Sonne howe should hee not with him giue vs all things also and now your ioye must needes be full as S. Iohn saieth Say not then you are in miserie for you see present remedie hauing good assurance of eternall felicitie And if a mā should aske you how you proue your state to be miserable I am sure you can not proue so fast as I can disproue You will say I am an abiect in the world I answere the more meeter for God the liker you are to your Sauiour so saieth the Apostle to your comfort and mine The vile thinges of the worlde things despised and things of nought hath God chosen I am sad and pensiue you will say my meat doth mee no good I enioye not the world But these are no arguments hereby to conclude miseries For euen the holy and happie Dauid had such sugar and sauce to his meate he mingled his bread with ashes and where was most likelyhood of rest his bed he watered with teares so that of your sorow it selfe you may receiue comfort because that shorte worldly sorowes are but a passage vnto vnspeakeable incredible and eternall ioye and consolation Our Sauiour saith they are happie that lament for they shal be comforted but hee setteth a woe vpon those that laughe so that by his iudgement happines and heauenly happines he speaketh of commeth rather by lamenting then laughing Yea God himself wil take the paines to wipe away the teares of the eyes of such as sheade any vnder the crosse especially in the cause of his Christ You haue litle comfort peraduenture in the worlde yet I am sure more then Lazarus in his penurie or Iob in his perplexitie and the lesse you finde on earth the more belike you shal haue in heauen You knowe the answere to the riche man in the parable that he had his earthly pleasure for his portiō But what an exchange made Lazarus euen eternal pleasure for temporal penurie If you haue not your portion with the riche man here you may the lesse doubte to haue parte and place with Lazarus in the kingdome of god And here let Christ be your comforter You shall lament saith he but the world shall reioyce and in him hee saith you shall haue peace O see that pitifull and sauing Samaritan how he powreth wine and oyle into your woundes euen the peace of conscience the peace of God that passeth all vnderstāding If the world hate you saith he you know that it hated me before you if our Sauiour hath lead vs the waye what should we sticke at the matter where as he hath ouerlept so great blockes why should we stumble so at euery strawe which the deuill casteth in our way The Apostle saith If we suffer with him we shall raigne with him and if we die with him we shall liue with him O Sister let vs not shrinke from our Captaine whome we see already to be a conquerour Let vs prepare our selues patiently to abide the pleasure of God let vs exercise patience in the lighter that we may the better beare the greater burden Let vs liue and die with our Sauiour let vs suffer with him in all patience that we may reigne with him in glorie to the which the afflictiōs of this world with all extremitie as S. Paul hath cast the matter are nothing comparable We hope to haue our part in the kingdome of Christ Iesus let vs not then looke for it there where he hath tolde vs it is not to be found Let vs not seeke after worldly wealth or earthly felicitie let vs not looke here to rule the roste but to be rosted rather of Rulers Our kingdome is where Christ reigneth let that content vs knowing that his kingdome is aboue all powers al things being in subiection vnder his feete Here I leaue you Sister betaking you to Christ who couereth you as one of his chosen chickens vnder the shadow of his cōfortable winges against whom as long as you liue neither the world which he hath cōquered neither death which he hath swallowed vp neither the gates of hel which he hath closed vnto you shal any thing preuaile That which I haue said I haue said once peraduenture as good vnsaid but Christ cōtinually cōforteth you with his sweete promises and euerlasting word of saluation he still crieth vnto you Be of good chere I haue ouercome the worlde reioyce in this sayth he that your name is written in the booke of life Betake you therefore wholy to him reioyce in his crosse resorte to his word whence as out of paradise you may gather flowers sufficient to fill you with ioye And if it hath pleased almightie God any thing to refreshe you with this my poore posy his wil be done his name be glorified Amen I haue my rewarde and he the God of all consolation graunt vs the

Gods eternall prouidence which maketh the sharpe and the sowre soft and sweete in the ende although no maner of chastisement as he saith is ioyous for the present time I haue in those former examples according to my simplicitie sent you some of the righteous and tried seruants of God to stand you in steade of Apothecaries and Surgeons of whom you may learne to cure your wound without douting forasmuch as they minister you euen such soueraigne medicines as they them selues haue tasted and tried as you see to their endlesse comfort but yet the chief phisition is to come Christ Iesus I meane the salue of all our sores the paterne of al patience and most assured comfort of all sorowing soules and readie redresse in all aduersities You haue seene in the examples afore the experiēce of good souldiours fighting a good fight and how they haue quitte themselues against the temptations of the worlde and the assaultes of Satan Nowe turne your eyes towarde Christ our redemer the great Captaine and most renowmed conquerour of all that euer tasted these worldly infirmities whose euill entreatie and hard handling the time serueth not now to describe vnto you but I send you to the head spring the historie of the Gospel you may also at your leasure reade that mine exercise concerning the loue of God where I haue assayed to say somewhat to this purpose Onely now I giue you S. Pauls exhortation Let the same minde be in you which was euen in Christe Iesus who being the Sonne of God and very God one with his Father made himself of no reputation tooke on him the forme of a seruāt he humbled him selfe and became obedient vnto the death euē to the death of the crosse Here learne of your Sauiour patience and humilitie and marke where lay his comfort verely that way that other his saued soules haue sought euen the prouidence of his God and by him our God his Father thākes be to him our Father for so he said when that lost childe went out from him and his other disciples to worke his purposed treason Verely saith he it goeth with the sonne of man as it is written of him and at this marke he seemed to ayme when as Pilate vaunted himselfe and triumphed ouer him saying that he had power to crucifie him and likewise to loose him then our Sauiours answere was thou couldest haue no power against me except it were giuen thee from aboue So when he did with deepe cōsideration as it were aforehand taste the bitternesse of his cuppe this way he foūd out of his temptatiō saying to his father thy will be fulfilled and not myne this was his comfort in the extremities of the crosse and his flesh also rested in this hope that the Lord would not suffer his holy one to see corruption By these you may be sufficiently stored with diuerse kinde of medicines you haue both the gentle and the strong working before you The next care concerneth the vse hereof that they be applied and placed to the sore Now therefore if you wil set these glasses of the afflicted seruants of God and especially Christ crucified before your eyes I doubt not but that it shall quicken all the dead flesh that lieth about your heart For first if you wil compare quantitie with quantitie surely yours may seeme but an April showre in cōparison of these bloudie floudes and seas of sorowes that passed ouer their heads But make your case comparable with others the aforesaid as peraduenture it is more then I am aware of yet being grounded on Christ Iesus with stedfast faith hauing your election certaine by your honest conuersation in the works of light and the Spirit of adoption bearing witnes with your spirit that you are a chosen childe of God hauing in iust consideration the iust dealing and mercifull prouidence of God towardes his vessels prepared to honour although in your selfe you be humbled as necessarie it is yet in God you cannot but reioyce and glorie with his seruants and Saintes on the earth Were it so that men reuiled you as Shimei did Dauid why should you not content quiet your self as Dauid did saying the Lord hath sent him for this purpose yea whatsoeuer kinde of crosse it shall please God to visite vs withall we ought by his example to cōsider the good purpose of God therein to say It is good for vs that we taste of some trouble lest we be found for bastard children as the Apostle speaketh If you had susteined losse of friēds parents childrē or husbands standing at one staye with Iob then for your comfort you haue to say The Lord hath giuen the Lorde hath taken away Let the case be I am sure it is not so ill that you were pestered with Iobs miserable disease as wee are all in the hands of God vpon vs to worke his wil and there is neither of both vndoutedly but haue deserued far worse then iust Iob yet he hath prouided for vs before hand a staffe to staye on and hath giuen vs a lesson of patience in that answere which he made his wyfe prouoking him to yelde to the assault of Satan and to blaspheme his God Thou speakest like a foolish woman saith he shall wee receiue good at the hand of God not receiue euill If you had lost your countrey which now you enioye by the benefit of God might you not well conceiue with your selfe of the will and worke of God therein to some such purpose as he wrought by Iosephs sale and bannishment wheresoeuer you shall come whatsoeuer entertainement or entreatie you should finde would you not say as he did it is God that hath sent me hither Suppose you were in the pit with Ioseph in the dēne with Daniel or that you made vp the messe with those three appointed to the fyer Sidrach Misach and Abednego would you mistrust now especially that they haue made the waye before you but that God would prouide some issue for you in the middest of these temptations either to saue you harmlesse by a mightie deliuerance or els as it should be best for you to make you a conquerour by patience And to come to Christ that fountaine of all consolation for all Christians O Sister we neuer felt with our litle finger that fyer wherein he was consumed for our sinnes we haue not tasted with the typ of our tongue that bitter cuppe wherein he swallowed vp death due vnto vs for our offences wee sleepe in whole skinnes his hands his feete his sydes were pearced of merciles murderers we for the most part haue ease and rest he found no place on earth where to rest his head we thinke much if we be somewhat diseased with a litle paine or griefe of bodie he swet and shed bloudie water to ease vs and release vs of perpetuall paines Nowe then Sister thrust in your finger with Thomas the Apostle and feele with

heauenly comfort of his holy Spirit that peace which the world can not giue and that constant patience in all his fatherly corrections that we be not founde false hirelings but true and trustie seruants no bastard children but by vnfained faith the blessed posteritie of the blessed Abraham and true regenerates of God by our Sauiour Christ And the holie sanctifying Spirit of trueth and God be blessed for euer Amen A verie godly and learned Exhortation to suffer patiently imprisonment exile or what miserie soeuer els may happen to a man in this life for the profession of the Gospel of CHRIST IESVS IF the worlde hate you good Brethren and thereupon with sundrie afflictions and griefes do moleste and vexe you marueile not with grudging but prayse GOD with patience who in this fornace fashioneth you to the lykenesse and image of his owne Sonne whome the worlde hath hated from the beginning for whose sake also in no wise it can loue you but with moste spitefull hate will pursue you euen vnto the death for that you are chosen by Christ from the worlde to walke foorth and bring out fruite which shall continue to sanctification whereof the end shal be euerlasting life For as a riche and beautifull Harlot full of amorouse filth with a painted face wantō looks trimme araye fayre wordes large promises great giftes with the entisement of quiet wealthie and pleasant life allureth them on whom she casteth loue yet at the end rewardeth them with pockes piles fighting brawling and most shamefull death whom if she can by no meanes entise to folow her fancie she hateth so deadly that she ceaseth not but causeth the whole rablement of her bawdie bawdes ruffling roysterkins with brawling bragges shamefull slaunders subtill surmises quarreling questions and falsly fayned accusations to vexe trouble and bring to destructiō So the Princesse of the world that most filthie harlot wooeth Gods children espoused vnto his sonne Christ to breake their faith and trouth to him plighted and to become her dearlings setting before their eyes all the kingdomes of the worlde and the glorie thereof promising with holowe holines subtill suspicion falsely fained religion and a pokefull of such pretie persuasions that if they wil fal downe and worship as she doeth she will giue vnto them all these same for then shall they be her owne deare dearlings and she will loue them as her owne but the end shal be most dreadful damnation Whom if she cannot perswade neither by one way or by other vnto her loue from Christ their best and onely beloued spouse she conceiueth so great an hatred against them that she stirreth all her champions with might maine to doe them displeasure in their goods to worke them hatred of their friendes to impayre their good name to punishe their bodies to offende their consciences to make their life yrksome vnto them and moste cruelly without mercie to kill them yet whose death is most precious in Gods sight and hath to rewarde a most glorious resurrection Thus the worlde hath serued our deare and best beloued Christ before vs for our sakes who was giuen into the handes of this harlot to be thus cruelly dealt withall for to be vnto vs a patern which we should folow an image after which we must be fashioned painted forth before our eyes in the Scriptures to teache vs to folowe his trace with patience and in running this race to cōceiue comfort hoping after victorie through fayth in him who both gaue vs warning of the paine and lest we should faint to comfort vs promised victorie saying In the world shall you haue affliction but in me peace be of good cheare for I haue ouercommed the worlde To fight with a puissant enemie whose courage was neuer abated whose strength is inuincible and who hath bene oftentymes assailed by many but neuer vanquished might discomfort a weake heart and cause it to giue ouer at the first without further resistance But for so much as this stern madame with all her chiualrie and force is so ouercome and weakened to our handes that she is not able to resist what countenance so euer she makes much lesse able to ouercome such as doe stoutly withstand her malice and crueltie how faint hearted cowardly milksoppes may we be iudged that wil be abashed and may not abyde the lowring countenance of a feeble maymed and beaten bragger especially seeing that in striuing faithfully against her and her souldiours the losse of renowme here is the purchasing of eternall glorie the losse of worldly goods the gayning of heauenly riches the losse of a miserable and short life here the winning and very entrance into a ioyfull and euerlasting life in heauen Is the friendshippe of the worlde so deare to vs that therefore we should not esteeme Gods fauour Ought our goods wife children friendes landes and possessions so much to be regarded that for to saue them we should forsake the heauenly riches and euerlasting inheritance Ought we to be so desirous to liue here that for a short life and vnpleasant we will purchase an euerlasting and most painefull death But the burthen of pouertie is importable hunger imprisonment exile is intolerable the bitter stormes of persecution and the sharpe showres of death are so insufferable that we feare least we shoulde not be of power to abide and passe thorow them and therefore do thinke it better to sit still then to rise take a fall better not to enterprise the conflict then in the middes for lacke of strength through faintnes to giue ouer with shame and runne away How delicate fearfull and therefore vnwilling the fleshe is to suffer common experience teacheth al men hauing any feeling of them selues perceiue and chiefely they who setting all persuasions of the fleshe apart haue of full purpose and resolute determination with them selues entred into the schoole of sufferance beginning at Christ his crosse and so forth to learne therein onely to glorie can by that they feele in them selues best declare For as the deadly foe to mankinde assaulted our deare brother Iesus Christ then most hotly after he perceiued by plaine tokens that he was Gods Sonne bent by the crosse and contempt of the world to enter into glorie with the firie dartes of famine pouerty ignominy shame afterward with the feare of death on the other part with plentie riches honour possessions and glorie of the whole world knowing most perfectly that these perswasions should be most strong to moue persuade the fleshe to refuse the crosse weying the paines the trauail with one eye the pleasant wealthy honour with the other so he ceasseth not to assayle Christes mēbers with the self same entisements to cause the fleshe to abhorre the crosse and seeke after ease but then most busilie when he perceyueth the heart moued by Gods Spirit to cōtemne these as vanities and to seeke after true wealth quietnes and glorie And

his abiding is in heauen his eyes beholde these sonnes of men and laugh them to scorne and at the length shal talke with them in his furie powring vpon them from heauen snares fyre and brimstone whose cup and portion shal be burning storme and tempest Let them persuade them selues and beleeue darkenes to be light trueth falsnes blindnes sight and life death and bring this to passe that mens eyes may seeme with a skinne or slime of superstitious ignorancie to bee couered and made blinde yet can the Lord and also will when he seeth time restore light trueth sight life againe to the aduancement of his owne glorie the comfort of his Church and vtter confusion of his enemies Folowe therefore after the Lord crye vnto him with the two blind men desire him of his mercy to restore your sight mistrust not but he is able to doe it saye with them that you so beleeue and the Lord wil make you answere and performe it in dede after your faith be it vnto you If you truste in the Lord and confesse him to be omnipotente why should you feare the crueltie of Antichrist who afflicteth Christ in his mēbers persecuting and punishing their soules with superstition idolatrie and vnbeliefe and afflicting their bodies with hunger imprisonment exile and painful death Hath not God aforetime assisted his to wade thorowe and ouercome the paines of all these yea in the middes of the bitter stormes to take great pleasure And is he of lesse power to helpe vs shall not we now by his assistance be so able to abide and take pleasure in paines as our brethren haue bene before vs My brethren be strong in the Lord and through the power of his strength learne to whatsoeuer estate God shal call you therewith to be content knowing how to be lowe how to exceede euery where and in al thinges instructed both to be full and to be hungrie both to haue plentie and to suffer neede yea to do all things through Christ who strengtheneth you by whom also you shal ouercome For if you be troubled on euery side yet shall you not be without shift when you bee vexed with pouertie you shall not be vtterly without somewhat wrapt in persecution not forsaken therein cast downe yet perishe not that the excellencie of the power may bee Gods and that you may onely glorie in the Crosse of Christ By the crosse he entred into glorie and they that are his must enter in the same way The Princes had no power ouer him further then was giuen them from aboue neither haue they ouer you no not to plucke of one heare of your head for they be all numbred and not one falleth away without the will of your heauenly Father who worketh all things for the best to all them that loue him And woulde we not haue all things worke to our most aduantage In worldly things we seeke after most gaine and wil we neglect that in heauenly things For to winne a small summe of money we will take vpon vs a farre iourney in daunger of robbing in perils of drowning and let for no payne perswading our selues that God wil be with vs assist and prosper vs in all our trauayle and shall wee refuse to traueile by land to passe the seas to suffer what paine soeuer thereunto belongeth to winne the penny of euerlasting life mistrusting that God will not be with vs ayde and further vs in whatsoeuer painefull perill we shall come in O blinde incredulitie that makest easy things to seeme hard by working an vnwillingnes in the mindes of men whome thou rulest If men forsake their own willes submitting them selues wholy vnto Gods will what thing can bee to harde But if we will followe the appetites and delicate nicenesse of our owne willes what can be easy Crye therefore with Christ deare brethren Not our wylles but thy will O heauenly Father be done So eschue troubles as may stande with his good will and pleasure When they come vpon you embrace them willingly suffer them patiently wade thorowe them faithfully for that is his good will and pleasure Folowe the example of Christe of the Prophetes Apostles and holy martyrs who were not wedded to their owne willes but submitted them selues wholy vnto Gods will who wrought so with them that in pouertie they wanted not necessaries in prison among rauening Lions they liued harmeles in the middes of fyre they burnt not in the most cruell torments they felt no payne and trusting to the faithfull promise and mightie ayde of their heauenly Father desired rather to be exercised vnder the crosse to die with Christ then to be at ease and liue with the world Abraham with his Father Thare forsooke his natiue countrey and from thence was commaunded to depart into a countrey whereof he neither knewe the name where it was neither what cōmodities were therein for men to liue withall neither yet could he abide there any whyle for a great dearth did oppresse the whole land so that he was compelled to flye into Aegypt where he was in daunger of much displeasure for he perceiued before he entred that he must forgoe either his wyfe or els sustaine daunger for keeping her Hee was constrained oftentimes to remoue his habitation not without great losse trauayle and perill Iacob also went forth of his natiue countrey into a straunge place partlie for that his father would not that hee should be ioyned in mariage with the daughters of the Idolatours of that countrey partly to flye the crueltie of wicked Esau his naturall brother where he serued Laban fourteene yeres for his two daughters in keeping his sheepe a painefull kinde of labour Afterwarde in his olde daies was constrained by the force of a great dearth to remoue into Aegypt where his ofspring was grieuously molested many yeres Ioseph was solde by his brethren to the Ismaelites and by them vnto an Aegyptian where he susteined great paine and perill in a straunge countrey The Prophete Ely being persecuted by the wicked Iezabel fled from post to pillar The Prophete Daniel with a great number of good and godlie Israelites were caried into Babylon captiues there to liue in captiuitie in a straunge countrey among their deadly enemies The Apostles of Christ and many godly men and also women in their time forsooke all they had and went into straunge coūtreis for the Gospels sake And after their time to this our time the Ecclesiastical histories are full of the examples both of men and also women that left landes and goodes fled their countreis and did choose rather in an vnkoth and vnknowē land to liue in hardnes with freedom of conscience to serue God after his wil then to tarie at home in wealth with bondage of conscience and dishonour the Lord in disobeying his holy will. It is not read that any of these did murmure grudge to leaue their houses landes goodes and natiue