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A04917	A godly letter sent too the fayethfull in London, Newcastell, Barwyke, and to all other within the realme off Englande, that loue the co[m]minge of oure Lorde Iesus by Ihon Knox; Admonition or warning that the faithful Christians in London, Newcastel Barwycke and others, may avoide Gods vengeaunce	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.	1554 (1554)	STC 15059.5; ESTC S108135	51,203	96

¶ A godly letter sent too the fayethfull in London / Newcastell / Barwyke / and to all other within the realme off Englande / that loue the cōminge of oure LORDE Iesus by Ihon Knox. Math. 10. ☞ He that continueth vnto the ende / shall be saued ¶ Imprinted in Rome before the Castel of s Aungel / at the signe of sainct Peter In the moneth of Iuly / in the yeare of our Lord. 1554. ❧ Ihon Knox To the faythfull in Londō / Newcastell / Barwyke / to all others / within the Realme of Englande / that leuith the comming of our Lord Iesus / Wissheth continuance in godlines too the ende With a declaration of prayer / annexeth to the same WHē I remēber the fearthfull threathninges of God / pro●oficed against Realmes / Leuit. xx Matth. x. and nacions / to whom the light of Gods worde hath ben offered / and contemptiously by them refused / as my hart vnfaynedly / morneth for your present estate / dearly beloued in our sauiour Ihesus Christ / so doth the hole powers / of body soule / trymble and shake / for the plagues that are to come But that Gods trew worde hath ben offered to the realme of England can none denye / except suche as by the dyuel holden in bōdage God iustly so punishing their proud inobediens hath neither eyes to se / Timo. ij nor vnderstāding to dycerne good from bad / nor darkenes from light Against whome no otherwise will I contend at this present / then dyd the Prephete Ieremie / against the styffe necked stubborne people of Iuda / sayinge Ierem. xxiii The wrath off the Lord shall not be turned awaye till he haue fulfilled the thoughtes of his hart And thus leaue I them as of whose repētaūce there is small hope to the handes of hym that shall not forget their horrible blasphemis spoken in dispitte of Christes truthe / and of hys trew minister● And with you that vnfainedly morneth for the greate shipwrake of goddes trew relygion / purpose I to communicat suche counsailer / and admonicious / now by my writinge / as sometymes it pleased God / I dyd proclaime in your cares The ende of whiche my admonicion is / that euin as that you purpose / and entend to auoid Gods vengeaunce / bothe in this lyfe / and in the lyfe to come / that so ye auoid and flee aswell in body as in sprete al felowship / and societye with Idolaters in their Idolatrye You shrynke I know euin at the fyrst But yf an orator / had the matter in hādlinge / he wolde proue it honeste / profytable / easye / and necessary to be done / and in euery one poynte were store ynough / for a longe oration But as I neuer labored to perswade any man in matters of religion God I take to record in my conscience except by the very simplicitie plaine infallable truthe of Gods worde No more mynde I in this behaulfe But this I affyrme / that to fle frō idolatrye / is so profytable and so necessary to a Christian / that onles he so do / all worldly profyth turneth to his perpetuall disprofeit / and condemnacion Profijt aperteyning / either to the bodyes / or to the soules / of our selues / and our posteritie / corporall commodities consisteth in such thinges as man chiefly couetith for the body / as ryches / estimacion / longe lyfe / health and quietnes in earth The only comfort and ioye of the soule is God by his worde expelling ingoraunce / synne / and death / and in the place of those / planting trew knowledge of hym selfe / and with thesame iustice and lyfe / by Christ his sonne Yf any off these forsaide moue vs / then of necessitie it is / that we auoyde Idolatry / for playne it is / that the soule hath neither lyfe nor comfort / but by God alone / with whome Idolatours / 1. Cor. vl hath no other participacion ●hen hath the deuils / and albeit that abhominable Idolatours / for a moment ●rysiphe yet approcheth the houre / when Gods vengeaunce shall stryke / not onely their soules / but euin their vile carcasies / shal be plagued / as God before hath threatned Leui. xxv Their cyties shal be burned / their lāde shal be layd wast / their enemies shall dwell in their stronge holdes / their wyues and doughters shal be defyted their chyldrē shall fall in the edge of the swerd / mercy shall they fynde none / because they haue refused the God of all mercye / when louingly and longe he called vpon thē / you wolde know the tyme / and what certitude I haue here off To God wil I appoint no tyme / but that these and mo plagues / shall fall vpon England and that ere it he long I am so sure / as that I am that my God lyueth This my affirmacion / shall displease many / and shall content few / God knowith the secretes of all hartes / knoweth that also / it displeaseth myselfe / and yet lyke as before I haue ben compelled to speake in your presens in presens of others suche thinges / as were not pleasable to the eares of men / wherof alas a great part this daye are come to passe / so I am cōpelled now to wryte with the teares of my eyes / I know to your displeasur But deare brethrē / be subiect vnto God / and geue place vnto his wrath / that ye may escape his euerlastinge vengeaunce My penne I trust / shall now be no more vehemēt / then my tounge hath bene after then ones / not onely before you / but also before the chief of the Realme What was sayd in Newcastel Barwyke before the sweat I trust yet som in those places beareth in mynde / What vpō the daye of all Sainctes / ●et New●●stel wit●●es the yeare that the duke of Somerset was last apprehēded What before hym / that then was duke of Northumberland / in the towne of Newcastell / other places moo What before the kynges maiestye at Wynsore / Hamptoncourt / and Westmynster / fynally what was spoken in London / in moo places then one / when fyers of ioye ryotous bankettinge were made at the Proclamacion of Mary your quene Yf men will not speake / the stones and tymber of those places / shal crye in fyer / and beare record that the truthe was spoken / and shal absolue me / in that behalfe in the daye of the Lord. Suspect not brethrē / that I delyte in your calamities / or in the plagues that shal fal vpō that vnthankefull nation No / God I take to recorde / that my hart mourneth within me / and that I am crucyet for remembraunce of youre troubles / but if that I shoulde ceasse / then dyd I agaynste my conscience / as also agaynste my knowledge / Eze. xxxiij and so shoulde be gyltie of the bloud of

Ierusalē escape the punishmēt of God Bevvare ●●● dissembling gospelers vvhich for the safegarde off ●oure vvorld lij pelfe defile four selfes vvith all popishe abhominacions Shall we then beleue that England maye auoide the vengeaunce that is threatned / No deare brethren Yf Idolatrie continew / as it is begonne / no more can England escape Gods vengeaunce / then God hym self may lease his iustice And therfore dearly beloued in our sauiour Iesus Christ Yf profit to your selfe or to your posteritie can moue you any thinge / then muste ye avoide and fle Idolatrie For if the Lordes messengers / that shal be sente too execute hys wrath / fynde you amongst fylthie Idolators / your bodies committing lyke abhomination with them Ye haue no warrant that ye shall escape the plagues / prepared for the wicked But rather it is to be feared that ye shall be plagued with them Iudi. 20 The hole trybe of Beniamin perished with the adulterers / yet were they not all adulterers in faict 1. Reg 15 Hole Amalek was commaunded to be destroyed / yet was not one of those lyuīg that trobled the Israelites / in their passage from Egipte Pharao was not drouned alone as in another letter / I haue more plainly writtē neither yet foūd Ionathas mercy / as touchinge lyfe corporal / in the daye when Gods vengeaunce punished Saule the repobater / and why the Apostle aunswereth Rom. 1. Because men knowing the iustice of God sayeth he and doing the cōtrary are worthy of death / not only those that doth wickedly / but also suche as consenteth to thesame Who cōsenteth And no man can be excused / but that he consentes / who dayly frequenting in the companye of wicked men / geuinge neither signe in woordes nor in dede / that iniquitie displeaseth hym And therefore yet I saye / yf profyt may moue vs. c. most profytable shall it be euen for the body in this present lyfe too auoide Idolatrye / for so doinge / As we shal esscape the plagues / whiche the vngodlye shall suffer / so is God by hys promis oblished vnto vs to be our father / our portiō / Esai 49. Zacha. 2. our īheritaūce defence / he promiseth wil not disceaue to cary vs vppon hys owne wynges from all daunger Psal lij Psalm c.xlvi. Psalm c.xl. To plant vs our posteritie in euerlasting memorial To feade vs in the tyme off hūger / and fynally to fight for vs / and to saue vs from all miseries and mischaunces But now to the subsequent As it is most profytable for body and soule to auoyde Idolatry / so is it so necessary / that onles we so do / we refuse to be in leage with God What we doo when we ioyn our selfs with idolaters Exo. xx We declare ourself to haue no faythe / we ●enye to be Gods witnes / and so muste he of this iustice expressed in his worde denye vs to apertaine to hym or to hys kyngdom And then alas what restith for vs / but perpetuall death ordeined for those that wil not continew in leage with God The leage betwene God vs conteyneth these conditions / that God shall be our God / and we shal be his people / he shal communicat with vs / of his graces goodnes we shal serue hym in bodye soule / he shall be our sauegarde from death and damnacion / we shal sticke too hym / and fle from all straunge Goddes This is the leage in making whereof we swear solempnedly / neuer to haue felowship with any religiō / except with that which God hath auctoris●d by hys manifest worde Yf by Gods scriptures these presydents be so playne / that reasonably no man can de●ye any point therof Then haue I good hope that ye wil admitte it to be necessarie / that you auoide Idolatry / yf the leage betwene God and you shal be kept sure And fyrst it is to be obserued / that Goddes iustice / beyng infinite in matters of religion / requireth lyke obediens of al those that be within hys leage at all tymes / that he requireth of any one nation / or particular mā in any one age / for al that byde with ī his leage / Deu. 29. are one body as Moyses doth witnes recompting men / wemen / chyldren / seruauntes / prynces / priestes / officers / and straungers within the couenaunt of the Lorde Then what God requireth of one as touching this leage he requireth of all / for hys iustice is immutable / what he dampneth in anye one that he muste dampne in others / for he is righteous without parcialitie Then let vs consider what God hath requyred of suche as hathe bene in leage with hym / and what he pronounceth dampnable Deu. xiij Moyses the mouth of God to his people of Israel speaketh as foloweth Yf thy brother the sōne of thy mother / or the wyfe of thy own bosome / or thy neyghbour / whom thou louest as thy own lyfe / shal priuely solyst the / Sayng let vs go and serue other Goddes whome thou hast not knowē c. Obey hym not / hear hym not / neither yet let thy eye spare hym / be not merciful vnto hym / nor hyde him not / but kyll hym / let thy hand be the fyrst vpon hym / that suche a one maye be kylled / and then the handes of the holy people stone hym with stones / vntil he dye And likewise commaundeth he to be donne with a hole citie / if the indwellers therof turne backe to Idolatrie / addinge also / that the citie and the whole spoyle therof shal be brent That no portiō shal be saued / nor yet that the citie shal be buylded foreuer again because it is accursed of God Here is a playne declaracion / what God requyreth of them that wil continew in leage with him / and what he hath dampned by his exprest wordes And do we esteme beloued brethren that the immutable God will wincke at our Idolatrie / as that he saw it not seing he commaundeth iudgement to be executed so seuerly against Idolators / and againste suche as onely prouoked or solisted others to Idolatrie / that neither should blood nor affinitie neither multitude nor ryches / saue suche as offendeth / neither yet that we should coūsayll their offences / but that we should be the fyrst that should accuse brother / sonne / doughter / or wyfe / and why because he entendeth saith Moyses to bring the frō the Lorde thy God / Who led thy furth from the land of Egipte / and therfore let hym dye / that all Israel hearing / maye feare / and presumed not after too commit the lyke abhomination Let nothing apertayninge to suche a man or citie / cleaue vnto thy hande / that the Lord may turn frō the furor of his wrath be moued ouer thy with most tender mercy and affeccion /

For no mā cōmeth to the father sayith Iesus Christ / but by me he is the right way / who declineth frō him errith and goyth wronge / he is oure leder / whome without we folowe / we shal walke in darknes / he alone is our captain / without whome neither praise nor victory we shal obtayne agaynst such as depend vpon the intercession of sayntes / no otherwyse wil I cōtend / but shortly touche the propertis of a perfyt mediatour ¶ Intercession to sayntes FIrst are the wordes most sure of Paule / a mediatoure is not the mediatour of one / that is / wheresoeuer is required a mediator / there are also two parties / to wyte one party offendant the other party / which is offendid whiche partise by thēselfe maye in no wise be reconsiled Secondly the mediator / Mediator which taketh vppon hym the recōsiling of these two parties / must be suche one as haue truste and fauor of both parties in some thinges / And differre frome bothe / and muste be cleane and innocent / also of the cryme / committed agaynst the party offended / let thys be more playne by thys subsequent declaration ¶ Aungels may not be mediators THe eternall God standeth vppon the one parte / and all naturall men / descēding of Adam vpon the other / the infinite iustice of God is so offended with the trāsgession of all men / that in no wyse can amyte be made / excepte suche one be founde as fully maye make satisfaccion / for mans offences / amonge the sonnes of men none was founde able For all they were founde criminall in the faulte of one / and God infinite in iustice must abhorre the societie and sacrifice of sinners And vnto aungelles / what preuailed the preuarication of man / who albeit / they wolde haue interponed them selfes mediators / had not the iustice infinite / who shall here be foūd peace maker The infinite goodnes and mercy of God / might not suffer the perpetuall losse and repudiaciō of his creature / therfore his eternall wysedome / prouyde such an medyator hauing wherwith to satisfy The iustice of God differeth also frō the godhead / his onely sonne / cledde in the nature of manhead / who interponed him self mediator / not as mā only ¶ Iesus Christ / God man is mediator FOr the pure humanitie of Christe of it selfe / might neither make intercess●ō nor satisfacciō for vs / but God man in that that he is God / he might complete the will of the father / in that / that he is man pure and cleane / without spot or sinne he might offer sacrifice / for purgacion of our synnes satisfaction of Gods iustice / without sainctes Haue these twoo godhead equale with the father / humanite without synne / the office of mediators they may not vsurpe / Obiectiō but here wil be obiected / who knoweth not Iesus Christ / to be the onely mediator of our redemciō / Aūswere but that impedites or letteth nothing Sainctes and holy men / to be mediators to make intercession for vs / as though that Iesus Christe had bene one houre or mediator / after had resined thoffice vnto his seruauntes ¶ Who maketh other mediators then Iesus Christ / taketh ouer from hym DO not such men ientelly intreate Iesus Christ / detracting frō him such porcion of his honor / otherwise speaketh the scriptures of God / testefying hym to be made mā / to haue proued oure infirmites to haue suffred death willingly / to haue ouercome the same / all to this ende / that he might be oure perpetuall hyghe souerayne pryse / Heb. 6.7.9.10 in whose place or dignitie none other mighte entre / as Ihon sayth / yf any man sinne / we haue an aduocate with the father / euen Iesus Christ the iust / marke well this wordes / Ihon sayth / Ioh. 3. Rom. 8. we haue presently a sufficiente aduocate / whome Paule affirmeth to sit / at the righte hande of God the father / and to be the only mediator betwene God and man / for he alone sayeth Ambrose is our mouth / by whome we speake to God / he is our eyes / by whome we se God / also oure righte hande / by whome we offer any thinge vnto the father / who onelesse he make intercession / neither we / neither any off the sainctes maye haue any societe or felowship with God Libro de Isaac de anima True membres Note diligently What creator may say to God the father / let mankinde be receyued into thy fauoure / for the payne of hys transgression that haue I sustayned in my owne bodye / for hys cause cōpassed with all infirmety became I the most contempted dispraysed of all mē / and yet in my mouth was foūd no disceyt nor gyle / but always obedient to thy will / suffred death / that for mankynd Obedience of Christ And therfore behold not the sinner / but me / who by my infinitie iustice / haue perfetly satisfied for hys offences / maye any other Iesus Christ / except I / in these wordes make intercession for sinners / yf they may not then / are they not neither mediators nor intercessors Libro cōtra parme niz ca For albeit / sayeth Augustine Christians do cōmend one another vnto God in theyr prayers / yet not make intercission / or dare vsurpeth office of a mediator / not Paule albeit vnder the head / he was a principale mēbre / yet because he commendeth hym selfe too the prayer of faithfull men Obiectiō yf any do obiecte Such is not the condicions of the saynctes departed / who nowe hathe put of immortalite / and beareth no lenger the fragilite of the flesh Aūswer Which albeit / I graunte to be moste true / yet are they all compelled to caste theyr crounes before hym that dothe sitte in the throne / Apoc. 6. knowleginge them selfes to be deliuered from greate affliccion / too haue bene purged by the bloud of the Lam / and therfore none of them do attempt to be a mediator / seynge they neyther haue being / nor iustice of them selfe / but in so great light of the Gospel prayse be to the omnipotent it is not necessary vpō such matter longe to remayne Note this wel Some say / we will vse but one mediator Iesus Christ to God the father / but we muste haue sainctes / and chiefly the virgin Mary / mother of Iesus Christ too praye for vs vnto hym ¶ Agaynste suche as wolde haue mediators too Iesus Christe A Lace / whosoeuer is so mīded / sheweth playnly them self to know nothing of Iesus Christ righteously / is he who discended frō heauen / conuersed among sinners Commaunded all / vexid sore / Math. 11. seke too come vnto hym / who hanginge vppon the crosse / prayde fyrst for hys enemies / become newe so vntractable /

not prophesye and plainly spake the plagues that are begonne / and assuredly shall ende Mayster Grindall plainlye spake the death of the Kynges maiestie / Mayster Grindal complayninge vppon hys housholde seruauntes / who / neyther feared to raile agaynste the woorde off God / and agaynste the trewe preachers of the same That godly and feruent man mayster Leuer / playnlye spake the desolacion off thys common wealthe Mayster Leuer Mayster Bradford And mayster Bradforde whome God for Christes hys sonne sacke comforte to the ende spared not the proudest of them / but boldely declared / that Goddes vengeaunce shortlye shoulde strycke / those that then were in auctoritie / because they lothed abhorred the trew worde of the euerlastinge God / willed thē to take example by a noble man / who became so colde in hearing Gods worde / that the year before his death / he wold not disease hym self to heare a sermō / God punisshed hym sayde that godly preacher and shall he spare you that be dubble more wicked No / ye shal saye / will ye / or will ye not / ye shal drinke of the cup of the Lordes wrathe / Iudicium domini Iudiciū domini Mayster Haddon The iudgemēt of the Lord / the iudgement of the Lorde / cryed he with a lamentable voyce / and weaping teares Master Haddon / most lernedly opened the causes of the byepassed plagues / and assured them / that the worse was after to come / If repentaunce shortly were not founde Muche more I harde of these foure / and of others / which now I maye not rehearce / that which is to be noted after that the hole counsail had sayd they wolde heare no mo of their sermōs / they were vndiscrete felowes / yea / pratynge knaues / but I will not speake all / for yf God contynew me in this troble I purpose to prepare a dysshe / forsuche as then ledde the ryng / yea / who but they● but nowe they haue bene at the skoole of Placebo / and ther they haue lerned amongst ladyes to daunse as the deuill lyst to pype Agaynst those / whom God hath stryken / seing now resteth to them no place of repentaunce / nothing mynd I to speake But such as lyue to this dai / wold be admonisshed that he that hath punished the one / wil not spare the rest But to our matter This presidents I iudge sufficient to proue this oure age to haue bene / yet to remayne lyke wicked if it be not worse with the tyme of Ieremye Now let vs searche what folowed in Iuda Mischefe vpon mischefe / notwithstādinge the continuall and long cryeng of the prophetes / whil fynally God in his anger toke away good king Iosias / liij Regum xxllj because he was determened to destroye Iuda / as before he had destroyed Israel After the death of this godly Kynge / great was the troble / diuers sondry were the alteracions in that commē wealth Three kynges taken prysoners / one after other in short space / what other were the miseries of that stubbern nation O God for thy greate mercies sake let neuer thy smal and troubled flocke / within the realme of Englande / learn in experiens But in all those trobles / no repentaunce appeared / as by the prophet ye may learne / for thus he crieth Ierem. v. ● Esai 1. Thou haste stryken them o Lorde / but they haue not mourned / thou hast destroyed them / but they haue not receaued discipline Ieremi xij They haue hardened their faces harder then stones / they will not cōuert The hole lād is wasted / but no man wil wyn / Ierem. xiij ponder consider / the cause This people will not heare my worde / They walke in the wicked inuention of their owne hartes They go after other goddes to worship and serue them and of the prophetes naturall frendes of the men of Anathotes / some plainly said Speake no more to vs in the name of the Lorde / leaste thou dye in our handes / belyke these men had smal fantasye to Gods prophet But yet shall a sermon and that whiche ensewid the same made in the beginning of the raigne of Iehoiakim / sonne to Iosias / make euident / and better knowne / how muche the people were bent to Idolatrye / and to heare false prophetes / after the death of their good kyng The prophet is commaunded by God to stande in the court or entres of the Lordes house / and to speake to all cities of Iuda / that then came to worshippe / in the house of the Lorde / and is commaunded to kepe no worde backe / yf peraduenture sayeth the Lorde they will herken and tourne euery man from his wicked waye The tenor of hys sermon / is this / Thus fayth the Lorde Iere. xxvi yf ye wil not obey me to walke in my lawes / which I haue geuen you / and to heare the wordes of my seruauntes the prophetes whome I sente vnto you / rysing vp betymes and styl sending / yf ye wil not heare thē I sayde then wil I do to this house / as I dyd vnto Silo / will make this citie / to be abhorred of al the people in the earth Heare not the wordes of the prophetes / that said vnto you / you shal not serue the king of Babylon / Iere. 27. I haue not sent them sayeth the Lorde howbeit / they are bold to prophesye lyes in my name / yf you geue eare vnto them / both you and your false prophetes shal perish Denie vvil I nothīg excepte Idolators But the li●e vvas done in Englande Here is first to be noted / that the people was alredy entered in to iniquitie / and especially straighte after the death of their king / into Idolatry / frō which the Lorde by his prophet labored to call them backe / threatning vnto them desolation / yf they procede to rebel Suche false prophetes at this presente are muche estemed in Englande Secondarely / it is to be obserued / that amongest them were false prophetes / not that they were so knowen / holdē of the people / no / they were holdē and estemed for so they boasted them selfes to be The trew churche of God that colde not erre / for howe should the law perish from the mouthe of the preasts Ierem. 18 These false prophetes were mayntaynors of Idolatrie / and yet boldelye promised to the people prosperitie and good lucke Wherewith the people were so abused and blinded / that the wordes of Ieremye / dyd rather hardē their hartes / then prouoke any to repētaunce / as the consequentes declared / for his sermon ended / the priestes / prophetes / and the hole people apprehended Ieremye / and with one voyce cryed / he is worthye of the death Greate was the vprore agaynst the poore prophet / Ierem. 26 in which appearinglye /