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A18193	The lamentacion of a synner, made by ye most vertuous Ladie, Quene Caterin, bewayling the ignoraunce of her blind life: set furth and put in print at the instaunt desire of the righte gracious ladie Caterin duchesse of Suffolke, [and] the earnest requeste of the right honourable Lord, William Parre, Marquesse of North Hampton	Catharine Parr, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1512-1548.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.	1547 (1547)	STC 4827; ESTC S108944	34,896	122

further if any time men would impugne gaynsaye vs w t the wisedome of the world yet we haue by Christe so muche supernatural light of the trut●e that we make a mocke of al those that repugne the truthe Christe also vpon the c●osse hath triumphed ouer the worlde Firste bycause he hath discouered the same to be naught that wheras it was couered with the vayle of Ipocrisie and the vesture of morall vertues Christ hath shewed that in goddes sight the r●ghteousnes of the worlde is wickednesse and he hath yelded witnes that the workes of men not regenerated by him in fayth are euel And so Christe hath iudged and condemned the worlde for naught Furthermore he hath geuen to al hys so muche light and spirite that they knowe it and disprayse the same yea and treade it vnder their feete w t al vayne honours dignities and pleasures not taking the fayre promises neyther the offers whiche it doth present Nay they rather make a scorne of theym And as for the threatnynges and force of the worlde they nothing feare Nowe therfore we may see howe great the victorye and tryumphe of Christ is who hathe deliuered all those the father gaue him frō y e power of the deuill cancellynge vpon the Crosse the wrytyng of our dertes For he hath delyuered vs frō the condemnacion of sinne from the bondage of the lawe from the feare of death from the daungier of the world and from all euylles in this life and in thother to cum And he hath enriched vs made vs noble most highlie happie after suche a glorious and tryumphant waye as can not w t tongue be expressed And therfore we are forced to say his triūphe is merueylous It is also sene knowen y e Christ is the true Messias for he hath delyuered man from all euylles and by hym man hath all goodnes so that he is the true Messias Therfore al other helpers be but vaine and counterfeyted Sauiours seing that by this oure Messias Christ wholie and onely we be delyuered from all euylles and by hym we haue all goodnes And that this is true it is euidente and cleare because the very true christian is a christian by Christ. And the true christian fealeth inwardly by Christe so muche goodnes of god that euen troublouse lyfe and death be swete vnto hym and miseries happie the true christian by Christe is disburdened frō the seruitude of the lawe hauing the law of grace grauen by the spirite inhabiting his hart and from sinne that reygned in him from the power of the infernal spirites from dānacion and from euery euyll And is made a sonne of God a brother of Christ heyre of heauen and lord of the worlde So that in Christe and by Christ he possesseth al good thynges But let vs knowe that Christ yet fighteth in spirite in his elect vesselles and shall fight euen to the daye of iudgemēt At which daye shal that great enemy death be wholie distroyed and shal be no more Then shall the children of god reioyce on him saying O death where is thy victory sting There shal be thē no more trouble nor sinne naye rather none euyll but heauen for the good and hell for the wicked Then shall wholie be discouered the victorie and triumphe of Christ who after Paul shall present vnto his father the kyngdome togithers with his chosen saued by him It was no lytle fauour towardes his chyldren y ● Christ was chosē of god to saue vs his elect so highlie by the waye of the crosse Paul calleth it a grace and a moste singuler grace We maye well thinke that he hauinge ben to the worlde so valiaunte a Capitayne of God was full of light grace vertue and spirite Therfore he myght iustelie saye Consūmatum e●t We seing then y t the tryumphe and victory of oure capitaine Christ is so merueilous glorious and noble to the whiche warre we be appoynted lette vs force our selues to folowe him w t bearyng our crosse that we maye haue felowshyppe with him in his kyngdome Truly it maye be most iustely verified y t to behold Christ crucified in spirite is the best meditacion that can be I certeynlye neuer knewe myne owne miseries and wretchednes so wel by booke admonicion or learnyng as I haue doen by lokyng into the spirituall booke of the crucifix I lamente muche I haue passed so many yeares not regardyng that diuine booke but I iudged and thought my self to be well instructed in the same whereas nowe I am of this opinion that yf God would suffer me to lyue here a M. yeare and should studye continually in the same diuine booke I should not be fylled with the contemplacion therof Neyther holde I my self contented but alwayes haue a great desier to learne and study more therin I neuer knewe myne owne wickednes neyther lamented for my synnes truly vntill the tyme god inspired me with his grace that I looked in this booke Then I beganne to see perfectly that mine owne power and strēgth could not helpe me that I was in the Lordes hande euen as the cleye is in the potters hand thē I began to crye and saye Alas lorde that euer I haue so wickedlie offēded the beyng to me frō the beginnyng so gracious so good a father most specially now hast declared and shewed thy goodnes vnto me whan in the time I haue doen the mooste iniurie to call me and also to make me know take the for my sauioure and redemer Suche be the wōderful workes of god to cal sinners to repentaunce and to make them to take Christe his welbeloued sonne for theyr sauiour this is the gift of god of all christians to be required and desiered For except this great benefite of Christe crucified be felte and fixed surely in mannes harte there cā be no good work doen acceptable before god For in Christ is al fulnes of y e godhead in him are hid al the treasures of wisedōe and knowledge euen he is the water of life wherof whosoeuer shall drynke shal neuer more thyrst but it shal be in hym a well of water springinge vp into euerlastynge life Saynct Paule sayeth there is no damnacion to them that are in Christ whiche walke not after the fleshe but after the spirite Moreouer he sayth yf when we were ennemies we were reconciled to god by the death of his sonne muche more seyng we are reconcyled we shal be preserued by his death It is no lytle or smal benefit we haue receyued by Christ yf we consydre what he hathe doen for vs as I haue perfectly declared heretofore Wherfore I praye the lord y t this great benefite of Christ crucified maye be stedfastly fixed and printed in al christian hartes that they maye be trewe louers of God

I trusted in hym to iustifie me sprang this excellent charitie in my harte I thinke no lesse but many wil wōder and maruell at this my saying that I neuer knewe Christe for my Sauioure and redemer vntil this tyme for many haue this opiniō saying who knoweth not there is a Christ who being a Christian doth not confesse hym hys Sauioure And thus beleuing their dead humayn historicall fayth knowlege whiche they haue learned in their scholasticall bookes to be the true infused fayth and knowelege of Christe whiche may be had as I sayde before with all sinne They vse to saye by their owne experience of thē self ●s that their fayth doth not iustifie them And true it is excepte they haue thys fayth the which I haue declared here before they shall neuer be iustifyed And yet it is not false that by fayth only I am sure to be iustified euen this is the cause that so many empugn this office and dutie of true fayth bycause so many lacke the true fayth And euen as the faythfull are forced to allowe true fayth so the vnfaythful can in no wise probably intrete therof y e one feling in him selfe that he sayth the other hauing not in him for to say I haue certeynly no curious learning to defende this matter withall but a simple zele and earnest loue to the truth inspired of god who promiseth to powre his spirite vpō all flesshe which I haue by the grace of god whō I moste humblie honour felt in my selfe to be true Let vs therfore nowe I pray you by fayth beholde considre the greate charitie and goodnes of god in sending hys Sonne to suffer death for our redemcion when we were his mortal enemies and after what sort maner he sent him First it is to be considered yea to be vndoubtedly w t a perfect fayth beleued that god sent him to vs freely for he dyd geue him and solde him not A more noble and ryche gift he coulde not haue geuen He sente not a seruaunte or a frende but his only Sonne so deerlye beloued not in delytes riches and honours but in crosses poouerties slaunders not as a lorde but as a seruaunt Yea in most vyle and paynfull passions to wassh vs not with water but w t his owne precious bloud not frō myer but from the puddle and fylthe of our iniquities He hath geuē him not to make vs poore but to enryche vs with his diuine vertues merites and graces yea and in hym he hath geuen vs all good thynges and fynally hym selfe and that with suche greate charitie as can not be expressed Was it not a moste high and aboundaunt charitie of GOD to sende Christe to shead his bloud to loose honour lyfe and all for hys ennemyes Euen in the tyme when we had doen him moste iniurie he first shewed his charitie to vs with such flambes of loue that greater coulde not be shewed God in Christ hath opened vnto vs although we be weake and blinde of our selues y t we may beholde in this miserable state the great wisdom goodnes and truthe with all the other godly perfeccions whiche be in Christ. Therfore inwardlye to behold Christ crucified vpon the crosse is the best and godliest meditacion that cā be We may see also in Christe crucified the bewtie of the soule better then in all the bookes of y e worlde For who that with liuely fayth seeth and feleth in spirite that Christe the sonne of god is dead for the satisfiyng and the purifiyng of the soule shall see that his soule is appoynted for the very tabernacle and mansion of the inestimable and incomprehensible maiestie and honour of god We see also in Christ crucifyed howe vayne and folyshe the worlde is howe that Christ beyng moste wise dispised the same We see also how blynde it is bicause the same knoweth not Christ but persecuteth hym We see also how vnkynde the worlde is by the kylling of Christe in the tyme he did shewe it most fauour Howe harde and obstinate was it that would not be mollified with so many teares suche sweat and so muche bloud shed of the Sonne of God suffering with so greate and high chariti● Therfore he is nowe very blinde that seeth not howe vayne foolish false ingrate crewell harde wicked and euill the world is we may also in Christe crucified ●eye our sinnes as in a diuine ballance howe greuous howe weyghty they be seyng they haue crucified Christ for they woulde neuer haue ben coūterpaysed but w t the great precious weyght of the bloud of the Sonne of God And therfore God of hys high goodnes determined that hys blessed sonne shoulde rather suffer bloudeshead then our sinnes should haue condemned vs. We shall neuer knowe our owne miserye and wretchednes but with the light of Christ crucif●ed Thē we shall see our owne crueltie when we feele hys mercy our owne vnrightwisenes and Iniquitie when we see his rightwisenes and holynes Therfore to learne to knowe truly our owne sinnes is to study in the booke of the crucifixe by continuall conuersacion in fayth and to haue perfect and plentifull charitie is to learne first by fayth the charitie that is in god towardes vs. We may see also in Christe vpon the crosse howe greate the paynes of hell and howe blessed the Ioyes of heauē be and what a sharpe paynfull thyng it shal be to theim that from that swete happye glorious Ioye Christ shal be depriued Then this crucifix is the booke wherin God hath included all thinges hath most cōpendiously written therein all truth profitable and necessary for our saluacion Therfore let vs indeuour our selfes to studye thys booke that we beyng lightened with the spirite of god maye geue hym thankes for so great a benefite Yf we looke further in thys booke we shall see Christes greate victory vpon the crosse whiche was so noble and mighty that there neuer was neyther shal be suche Yf the victory glory of worldly princes were great bycause they dyd ouercū great hostes of men howe muche more was Christes greater whiche vanquished not onlye the prince of the worlde but all the ennemies of god triumphing ouer persecucion Iniuries villanies sclaunders yea death the worlde synne and the deuil and brought to confusion all carnal prudence The princes of the worlde neuer did fight w tout the strengthe of the worlde Christe contrary went to warre euen agaynste all the strength of y e world He would fight as Dauid did with Golias vnarmed of all humaine wisdom and policy and withoute all worldlie power and strength Neuertheles he was fully replenished armed w t the whole armour of y e spirite And in this one battayle he ouercame for euer al his enemies There was neuer so glorious a spoyle neyther a more riche and noble then

Christ was vpon the crosse whiche deliuered al hys electe from suche a sharpe miserable captiuitie He had in this battayle many strypes yea and loste hys life but his victory was so muche the greater Therfore when I loke vpon the sonne of god with a supernatural fayth and light so vnarmed naked geuen vp and alone with humilitie pacience liberalitie modestie gentlenes and with all other hys diuine vertues beating downe to the grounde al goddes enemies and making the soule of man so fayre and beautyfull I am forced to say that his victory and triumphe was merueylouse And therfore Christ deserued to haue this noble title Iesus of Nazareth king of the Iewes But if we will perticulerlie vnfold and see hys great victories let vs firste beholde howe he ouercame sinne w t his Innocencie and confounded pride with his humilitie Quenched all worldlie loue with hys charitie appeysed the wrath of his father with his mekenes turned hatred into loue with hys so many benyfites and godlie zele Christe hath not only ouercum sinne but rather he hath kylled the same in asmuche as he hath satisfied for it him selfe with the most holy sacrifice and oblacion of hys precious bodye in suffering most bitter and cruel death Also after an other sorte that is He geueth to al those that loue hym so muche spirit grace vertue and strength that they may resiste impugne and ouercome sinne not consent neyther suffer it to reigne in them He hath also vanquished sinne bicause he hath taken away the force of the same that is he hathe cancelled the lawe whiche was in euil men the occasion of sinne Therfore sinne hath no power agaynste theym that are with y e holy ghost vnited to Christ. In theim there is nothing worthy of damnaciō And although the dregges of Adam doe remayne that is our concupiscences which in dede be sinnes neuertheles they be not Imputed for sinnes yf we be truly planted in Christe It is true that Christe might haue taken away all our immoderate affeccions but he hath left them for the greater glory of hys father and for his owne greater triūph As for an example When a prince fyghting w t his ennemyes which sōtime had y e soueraintie ouer his people subdewing thē may kil them yf he will yet he preserueth and saueth theym And wheras they were lordes ouer his people he maketh theym after to serue whom they before had rewled Nowe in suche a case the prince doth shewe hym selfe a greater conquerour in that he hath made theym whiche were rewlers to obey the subiectes to be lordes ouer them to whom they serued then yf he had vtterly distroyed theim vpon the conquest For nowe he leaueth continuall victory to theym whom he redeamed wheras otherwise thoccasion of victory was taken away where none were left to be the subiectes Euen so in lyke case Christe hath left in vs these concupiscences to thintente they should serue vs to the exercise of our vertues where first they did reigne ouer vs to thexercice of oure sinne And it may be plainly sene that wheras first they were suche impedimentes to vs y t we coulde not moue our selues towardes god nowe by Christ we haue so muche strength that not withstanding the force of theym we may assuredly walke to heauen And although the chyldren of god sūtime doo falle by frailtie into sum sinne yet that falling maketh them to humble thē selues and to reknowelege the goodnes of god and to cum to hym for refuge and helpe Lykewise Christ with hys death hath ouercum the prince of deuilles with all hys hoste and hath distroyed them all For as Paule sayeth this is verefied y t Christe should breake y e serpentes heade prophesied by GOD. And although the deuil tempte vs yet if by fayth we be planted in Christ we shall not perish but rather by his temptacion take greate force and might So it is euident that the triumph victory and glory of Christe is the greater hauing in suche sorte subdewed the deuyll that wheras he was prince and lorde of the worlde holding all creatures in captiuitie nowe Christe vseth him as an Instrument to punish the wicked to exercise make strong the electe of god in christian warre fare Christe likewise hath ouercum death in a more glorious manner yf it be possible because he hath not takē it away but leuing vniuersally al subiect to the same He hath geuen so muche vertue and spirite that wheras afore we passed therto with great feare nowe we be bolde through the spirite for the sure hope of resurrecciō that we receyue it w t Ioie It is nowe no more bitter but swete no more feared but desired It is no death but life And also it hath pleased god that the infirmities and aduersities doo remayne to the sight of the world but the children of God are by Christ made so strong rightwise whole and sounde that the troubles of the worlde be comfortes of the spirite The passions of the fleshe are medicines of the soule For al maner thinges worketh to their commoditie and profite for they in spirite feele that god their father doth gouerne theym and disposeth all thinges for their benefite therfore they feele theym selues sure In persecucion they are quiet and peacefull in tyme of trouble they ar without werynes feares anxcieties suspicions miseries and finally all the good and euil of the world worketh to their commoditie Moreouer they see that the triumph of Christ hath ben so great that not only he hath subdewed and vanquished all our enemies and the power of theym but he hath ouerthrowne vanquished them after suche a sorte that al thinges serue to our helth he might and coulde haue taken theym all away but where then should haue bē our victorye palme crowne For wee dayly haue fightes in the flesshe and by the succour of grace haue continuall victories ouer sinne wherby we haue cause to glorifie god that by his sonne hath weakened our enemy the deuil and by hys spiryte geuith vs strength to vanquishe hys ofspringes So doe we knowelege daylie the great tryumphe of our Sauiour reioyce in our owne fightes the which we can no wise impute to any wisedome of thys worlde seing sinne to encrease by it And where worldlie wisedome most gouerneth there most sinne ruleth For as the world is enemy to god so also the wisedome therof is aduerse to god And therfore Christ hath declared discouered the same for folishnes And although he could haue taken awaye all worldlye wisedome yet he hath left it for his greater glorye and tryumphe of hys chosen vesselles For before wheras it was our ruler against god nowe by Christe we are serued of it for God as of a slaue in worldlye thinges Albeit in supernaturall thinges the same is not to be vnderstand And

worshipped in spirit and truthe Christ condemned all Hipocrisie and feyned holynes and taught sincere pure and true godlynes But we worse thē frantike or blind will not folowe Christes doctrine but trust to mennes doctrines iudgementes and sayinges which dimineth our eyes and so the blinde leadeth the blinde and both fal into the dyche Trulye in my simple and vnlearned iudgement no mannes doctrine is to be estemed or preferred lyke vnto Christes and the Apostles nor to be taught as a perfect and true doctrine but euen as it doth accorde and agree with the doctrine of the gospell But yet those that he called spiritual pastours although they be moste carnall as it doth very euidently plainlye appere by their fruites are so blynded with the loue of them selues and the worlde that they extoll mennes inuencions and doctrines before the doctrine of the gospel And whē they be not able to maynteyne their owne inuencions and doctrine with any iote of the scripture then they most cruellye persecute them that be contrary to y e same Be suche y e louers of Christ naye nay they be the louers of the wicked Mammō neither regardyng God nor his honor For fylthy lucre hath made them almoste mad but frantyke they be doubteles Is not this miserable state of spirituall men in the world muche to be lamēted of al good christiās But yet I cānot allow neyther prayse al kynd of lamētacion but suche as maye stande w t Christiā charitie Charitie suffereth long and is gentle enuyeth not vpbraydeth no man casteth frowardely no faultes in mēnes teath but referreth al thinges to god beyng angry without sinne reformyng others withoute their sclaunders carrieng euer a storehouse of mylde woordes to perce the stony herted menne I would all christians that like as they haue professed Christ would so endeuoure themselues to folowe him in godly lyuing For we haue not put on Christ to liue anye more to oure selues in the vanities delites and pleasures of the worlde and the flesshe suffrynge the concupiscence and carnalitie of the flesshe to haue his full swinge For we muste walke after the spirite and not after the fleshe for the spirite is spirituall and coueteth spirituall thinges and the flesshe carnall and desireth carnall thinges the menne regenerate by Christe disspise the worlde and all the vanities and pleasures therof They be no louers of themselues for they fele howe euill and infirme they be not beyng able to do any good thyng without the helpe of God from whome they knowlege all goodnes to procede They flatter not themselues with thinkyng euery thing whiche shyneth to the worlde to be good and holye for they knowe all externe outward workes be they neuer so glorious fayre to y e world may be doen of the euill aswell as of the good and therfore they haue in very litle estimacion the outewarde shewe of holynes because they be all spirituall castyng vp their eyes vpon heauēly thinges neyther lokyng nor regardynge the earthly thinges for they be to them vyle and abiect They haue also the simplicitie of the doue the policie of the Serpent for by simplicitie they haue a desire to do good to all men and to hurte no man no though they haue occasion geuen And by policie they gyue not nor minister anye iuste cause to anye man whereby their doctrine might be reproued They be not also as a reede shaken with euery wynde when they be blasted with the tempestes stormes of the world thē remaine they most firme stable and quiet feling in spirit that god as their best father doeth sende and suffer all thynges for theyr benefitte and commoditie Christe is to thē a rule a line an example of Christien life They be neuer offended at anye thyng althoughe occasion be ministred vnto them for like as Christ when Peter would haue withdrawē hym from death aunswered and sayde goe backe from me Sathan for thou offendest me that is asmuche as lieth in the thou gyuest me occasion with thy woordes to make me withdrawe my selfe from death althoughe I yelded not therto for this thy procuremente canne not extinguisshe the brennynge desier I haue to shead my blood for my chosen Euen so the perfect men are neuer offended at anye thyng For although the worlde were full of sinne they would not withdrawe themselues from doing of good nor waxe colde in the loue of the lorde And muche lesse they would be moued to be euyll yea rather they be so muche the more moued to do good The regenerated by Christ are neuer offended at the workes of god because they knowe by faythe that God doeth all thinges well And that he can not erre neyther for want of power nor by ygnoraūce nor malice for they knowe hym to be almightie and that he seeth all thynges and is moste habundauntlye good they see and feele in spirite that of that wyll moste highl●e perfect can not but proceade moste perfecte workes Likewise they be not offended at the workes of men for if they be good they are moued by them to take occasion to folowe them and to reknowledge the goodnes of god with geuing of thankes and praising his name dayly y e more but yf they be indifferent suche as maye be done with good and euill ententes they iudge the best parte thinking they may be doen to a good purpose and so they be edified but yf they be so euil that they canne not be taken in good parte by anye meanes yet they be not offended althoughe occasion be geuen nay rather they be edyfied in asmuche as they take occasion to be better althoughe the contrary be ministred vnto them Then begynne they to thinke and saye thus yf god had not preserued me with his grace I shoulde haue committed this sinne and worse O howe muche am I boūd to cōfesse and knowlege the goodnes of god They go also thinking and saying further He that hath synned maye be one of gods electe peraduenture the lord hath suffered him to fall to the entente he maye the better know himselfe I knowe he is one of them that Christ hath shead his bloude for and one of my christen brethren Truely I wyll admonyshe and rebuke hym and in case I fynde him desperate I wyll comforte hym and shewe hym the greate goodnes and mercye of God in Christ and with godly consolacions I will see yf I can lifte him vp And thus ye maye see howe y e men regenerated by Christe of euery thynge winne and receyue fruite And contrarye the younglinges and vnperfect are offended at small tryfles takyng euery thing in euyll parte grudging and murmuryng agaynste their neyghboure so muche the more as they shew them selues feruent in their so doyng they are iudged of the blynde worlde and of them selues