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

spiritually The which ●ting if we vse with prayer as I sayd ●et vs not doubt but at the length Gods ●irite will worke as now to such as be●eue for to the vnbeléeuers all is in vaine their eyes are starke blind they can see ●othing to such as beléeue I say I trust ●eme thing is done euen already But if ●eyther by prayer nor by tooting in Gods ●aw spiritually as yet thy hard vnbelee●ing heart féeleth no sorrow nor lamen●ing for thy sinne Thirdly looke vpon the ●ag tyed to Gods Law for to mans law ●here is a tag tyed that is a penaltie and that no small one but such a one as cannot but make vs to cast our currish tayles betwéene our legs if we beléeue it for all is in vaine if we be faithlesse not to beléeue before we féele This tag is Gods malediction or curse Maledictus omnis sayth it qui non permanet in omnibus quae scripta sunt in libro legis vt faciat eam Loe accursed sayth he is all no exception all sayth God which continueth not in all things for he that is guiltie of one is guiltie of the whole sayth S. Iames in all things therefore sayth the holy Ghost which are written in the booke of the law to doe them Hee sayth not to heare them to talke of them to dispute of them but to doe them Who is he now that dooeth these Rara anis few such Byrds yea none at all For all are gone out of the way though not outwardly by word or déed yet inwardly at the least by default and wanting of that which is required so that a child of one nights age is not pure but by reason of birth-sinne in danger of Gods malediction then much more wee which alasse haue drunken in iniquitie as it were water as Iob sayth But yet alas we quake not Tell me now good brother why do you so lightly consider Gods curse that for your sinnes past you are so carelesse as though you had made a couenant with death and damnation as the wicked did in Esayes time What is Gods curse At the Popes curse with booke bell and candle O how trembled wee which heard it but onely though the same was not directed vnto vs but vnto others For this Gods curse which is incomparable more sell and importable and is directed to vs yea hanging ouer vs all by reason of our sinnes alas how carelesse are wee O faithlesse hard hearts O Iezabels ghests rocked and layd asléepe in her bedde O wicked wretches which béeing come into the depth of sinne doe contemne the same O sorrowlesse sinners and shamelesse shrinking harlottes Is not the anger of a King death and is the anger of the King of all Kings a matter to be so lightly regarded as wee doe regard it which for our sinnes are so retchlesse that we slugge and sléepe it out As waxe melteth away at the heate of the fire sayth Dauid so doe the wicked perish at the face or countenance of the Lord. If déerely beloued his face bee so terrible and intolerable for sinners and the wicked what trow wée his hand is At the face and appearing of Gods anger the earth trembleth but we earth earth yea stones yron flints tremble nothing at all If wee will not tremble in hearing woe vnto vs for then shall we bee crashed in pieces in féeling If a Lyon roare the beastes quake but wee are worse then beasts which quake nothing at the roring of the Lyon I meane y e Lord of hosts And why because the curse of God hardnes of heart is already fallen vpon vs or else we could not but lament and tremble for our sinnes If not for the shame and foulenes thereof yet at the least for the malediction and curse of God which hangeth ouer vs for our sinnes Lorde bee mercifull vnto vs for thy Christs sake and spare vs in thine anger remember thy mercies towards vs Amen And thus much for the third thing to the moouing of vs to sorrow for our sinnes that is for the tag tyed to Gods Law I meane for the malediction curse of God But if our hearts bee so hard that through these wee yet féele not heartie sorrow for our sinnes let vs fourthly set before vs examples past and present olde and new thereby the holy spirite may be effectual to worke in his time this woorke of sorrowing for our sinne Looke vpon Gods anger for sinne in Adam and Eue for eating a péece of an apple Were not they the déerest creatures of God cast out of Paradise Were not they subiect to mortalitie trauaile labour c. Was not the earth accursed for their sins Doe not we all men in labour women in traueiling with child and all in death mortalitie and miserie euen in this life feele the same And was God so angrie for their sinne and hee béeing the same God will he say nothing to vs for ours alas more horrible then the eating once of one piece of an apple In the time of Noe and Lot God destroyed the whole world with water and the Cities of Sodom and Gomorra Seboim and Adamah with fire and brimstone from heauen for their sinnes namely for their whoredoms pride idlenesse vnmercifulnes to the poore tyranny c. In which wrath of God euen the very babes birds fowles fishes hearbes trées and grasse perished and thinke we that nothing will be spoken to vs much woorse and more abominable then they For all men may sée if they will that the whoredomes pride vnmercifulnesse tyranny c. of England farre passeth in this age any age that euer was before Lots wife looking backe was turned into a salt stone and will our looking backe againe yea our running backe againe to our wickednesse doe vs no hurt If we were not already more then blinde Béetles we would blush Pharao his heart was hardned so that no miracle could conuert him if ours were any thing soft we would begin to sob Of sixe hundred thousand men all onely but twaine entred into y e Land of promise because they had ten tymes sinned against the Lord as hee himselfe sayth and trow we that God wil not sweare in his wrath that wee shall neuer enter into his rest which haue sinned so many ten times as wée haue toes fingers yea haires on our heads and beards I feare me and yet we passe not The man that sware and he that gathered sticks on the Sabboth day were stoned to death but wee thinke our swearing is no sinne our bribing rioting yea whorehunting on the Sabboth day pleaseth God or else wee would something amend our maners Helias negligence in correcting his sonnes nipped his necke in two but ours which pamper vp our children like puppets will put vs to no plunge Helias sonnes for disobeying their fathers admonition brought ouer them Gods vengeance and wil our stubburnesse doe nothing Sauls malice to Dauid Acabs displeasure against

maye possesse that parte which neuer shall decay In folowinge of your fathers feete in truth and eke in loue ye may be also heires with him for euermore aboue Haue god alwayes before your eyes withal your whole intente Commit not sinne in any wise keeke his commaundement Abhorre that arrant hoore of Rome and all her blasphemies And drinke not of her decretales nor yet of her decrees Geue honour to your mother deare remember well her paine And recompence her in her age in lyke with loue againe Be alwaies ayding at her hand and let her not decay Remember well your fathers fall who should haue bene her stay Geue of your portion to the poore as riches doth aryse And from the needy naked soule turne not away your eyes For he that will not here the crye of them that stand in neede Shal crye himselfe and not be harde when he would hope to speede If God haue geuen you increase and blessed well your store Remember ye are put in trust to minister the more Beware of foule and filthy lust let suche thinges haue no place kepe cleane your vessels in the Lord that he may you embrace ye are the temples of the Lord ●or ye are dearly bought And they that do defile the same shall surely come to nought Possesse not pride in any wise ●uilde not your house to hie But haue alwaies before your eies that ye be borne to dye Defraude him not that hired is your labour to sustaine But giue him alwaies out of hand his peny for his paine And as you would an other man against you should procede Doo you the same to them againe when they do stand in neede And part your porcion to the poore in money and in meate And feede the fainted feable soule with that whiche ye should eate Farewall my true and louyng wyfe my Children and my frendes I hope in God to haue you all when all thinges haue their endes And if you doe abide in God as you haue now begonne your course I warrant shal be shorte you haue not longe to ronne God graūt you so to ende your daies as he shall thinke it best That I may haue you in the heauens where I doe hope to rest ¶ Finis quod Mathewe Rogers A lamentable complaynt of the afflicted vnto god our onely healper ARyse O Lord why slepest thou set to thy hand in tyme of neede That wicked men thē selues may know ● be but mortal men in deed They doe exalt them selues on hie ●r to cast downe the simple sorte ●ostinge of their aucthoritie ●et none careth for Iosephes hurte They robbe the poore and fatherles ●king their good by violence ●he faythfull flocke they doe oppres ●herof we haue intelligence If we to them will not agree ●en shall we neither bye nor sell ●ut fast in prison for to lye stockes and Irons the trueth to tel ●hē they haue caught vs in their net ●n wil they not forgo their pray ●th shameful words they do vs thret ●uenting mischiefe euery daye Against the truth they kick spurne breath out threates w t maine might All Gods elect with fyre they burne or els doe put them to their flight They spoyle and wast in euery place the people that doe feare the lorde Like rauening wolues void of al grace thus they suppres Gods holy worde Locusters they are withouten fayle rysing out of the bottomles pitte Like stinking scorpions is their tayle throughout y e world gods flocke to bite The very trueth do they cast downe what can the righteous doe withall Refusyng Christ the corner stone with their workes build vp the wal Thus are we killed all the day longe for thy names sake we suffer payne As simple sheepe bochers amonge so vnder tyrauntes we remaine They feede thy flock with their decrees mainteining them with fyre sword Thus they defende most wicked lyes and kil the saintes of christ our Lord. Wilt thou now hide thy face O lorde the time of our tribulacion while the enemies of thy worde ●e set vp their abhominacion Thy promisse Lorde we doe beleue at thou wilt helpe vs in due tyme though that tirauntes doe vs greue death or life yet we are thyne For this we knowe assuredly ●e lordes right hād can sone chāge all ●herfore we praye moste hartely ●his churche in generall Helpe now O lord for thy names sake ● all mens thoughtes ar vaine truly ●is of my lyfe my leaue I take ●sting for euer to dwell with thee ●is ꝙ Raffe Allerton A briefe rehersal of parte of the aucthours trouble entituled God is my comforte IN trouble and aduersitie we do finde most assuredlye As the perfyt doeth testify that God is our comforte We do not feare the euil daies nor folow not the wicked waies Of Antechrist nor yet his lawes for God is our comforte Although we haue bene tyed in fetters so hath bene some of our betters As Peter Iohn and such others yet God was their comforte Both all day and night in the stockes with prety Irons and double lockes Abydyng tauntes rebukes mockes yet God is our comforte If we doe our Bochers displease then are we cast in little ease And often bytte with lyce and fleas yet God is our comforte Sumtime we are in lowlers tower or in the colehouse stinkyng flower Lokyng when they wil vs deuoure ●ut God is our comforte With whips rods they do vs threat ●aiyng doubtles we shall you beate If we will not the rownd God eate ●et God is our comforte we may not pray if it be harde ●nto God that is our sauegarde ●age him say they for a rewarde ●hough God be his comforte If we singe a Godly songe ●ut of the stockes we are not longe ●nd then they say we liue wronge ●ut God is our comforte Let them not haue theyr meate say they ●nd their drinke se you kepe awaye ●ut bread and water eche other day ●et God is our comforte They did keepe vs so Gentilly stockinge vs so tenderly ●ntill the bloud in our house dyd lye ●et God is our comforte Our Byble they haue taken awaye and our bookes whereon we dyd pray with other thinges the truth to saye yet God is our comforte Although w t cords thei haue vs bounde with gibes and giuers tricke and roūd yet in our troubles we haue founde that God is our comforte what if they burne vs in the fyre let this be onely our desyre To raigne with God in his empyre for he his our comforte Let all people be glad with me that standes to Christes veritie And take the crosse vp ioyfully for God is our comforte Se that no troubles turne your ha● nor of the fleshe to feare the smart So shall you surely haue your parte with Christ your whole comforte Finis quod R. A. ¶ The songe of the poore prisoners in Lolers tower CAyne wilt thou not withdrawe thy hande to cease thy frowarde wyll wilt thou lift

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

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