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A10781	A pituous lamentation of the miserable estate of the churche of Christ in Englande in the time of the late reuolt from the gospel, wherin is conteyned a learned comparison betwene the comfortable doctrine of the gospell, [and] the traditions of the popish religion: with an instruction how the true Christian ought to behaue himself in the tyme of tryall. Wrytten by that worthy martyr of god Nicolas Rydley, late Bysshoppe of London. Neuer before this tyme imprynted. Wherevnto are also annexed certayne letters of Iohn Careles, written in the tyme of his imprisonment. Perused and allowed according to the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions.	Ridley, Nicholas, 1500?-1555.; Careless, John, fl. 1564-1566.	1566 (1566)	STC 21052; ESTC S110643	38,326	116

for the rest to putte their trust nowe wholy in God whych is able to saue them against all apparau●ce commonly in extremities whē al worldly comforte sayleth and the danger is at highest then vnto his he is wonte after his accustomed mercy to be most ready for to put his helpynge hande Daniell God suffered to be caste into the denne of lions and the thre chyldren into the hotte burning fornace and yet he saued thē all ▪ Paule was plucked out of the mouth of the lion as be saieth of himself and in Asta he was brought in such trouble that he loked for no other thing but for present death yet he that rayseth the deade to lyfe againe did brynge him out of all his troubles and taught him and all other that he in troubles for christes cause not to trust to thēselus but in almighty God Of gods gracious aid in extreme perils toward them the put their trust in him all scripture is ful both olde newe What daūgers were the patriarks often brought vnto as Abrahā Isaac and Iacob but of all other Ioseph how mercifully were thei deliuered againe In what perylles was Moyses when he was faine to flie for the safegard of his life whē was he sent againe to delyuer the Israelytes from the ser●yle bondage not before they were broughte into extreame misery And when dyd the lord mightely deliuer his people from Pharao his sworde not before they were brought in such straytes that they were so compassed en euery side the mayne sea on the one syde the mayne hoste on the other that they could looke for none other yea what didde they ▪ els in dede loke for then but eyther to haue bene drowned in the sea or els to haue fallē on the edge of Pharao his sword These iudges which wrought most wonderful thynges in the deliuery of the people were euer geuen when the people was brought to most miserye before as Othoniel Aioth Sangar Gedeon ●ephthe Samson And so was Saul indued with strength and boldnes from aboue against the Ammonites Philistines Amalechites for the defence of the people of God Dauid likewyse felt gods helpe most sensibly euer in his extreme persecutions What shall I speake of the prophetes of god whom god suffered so oft to be brought into extreme perils and so mightely deliuered theim againe As Helias Hieremy Daniel Micheas and Ionas and manye other whom it were but to longe to rehearse and set out at large And did the lorde vse his seruantes otherwise in the newe law after christes incarnation Read the actes of the apostles and you shal see no. Were not thapostels cast into prison and brought out by the mighty hande of god Did not the aungell deliuer Peter out of the stronge prison brynge hym oute by the yron gates of the citie and set him free And whē I praye you euen the same night before Herod apointed to haue brought him in iudgement for to haue slayne hym as he had a lyttle before kylled Iames the brother of Iohn Paule and Silas when after they had bene sore scourged and were put into the inner prison and there were layd fast in the stockes I praye you what apparāce was ther that the magestrats should be glad to come the next daye themselues to thē to desyer theym to be contente and to departe in peace who prouyded for Paule that he should be safely conducted oute of all danger and brought to Felix the Emperours deputy whē as both the high priests the Pharisyes and rulers of the Iewes had conspired to requier iudgemente of death against him he being fast in prison and also more thē fourty men hadde sworne eche one to other that they would neuer eate nor drinke vntill they had slaine Paule A thynge wōderful that no reason could haue inuented or man could haue looked for god prouided Paule his owne sisters sonne a younge man that disaponited that conspiracy and all their former coniuratiō The maner how the thiuge cam to passe thou maiest reade in the .23 of the actes I will not be tedyous vnto thee here wyth the rehersall therof Nowe to descende from the apostles to the martyrs that folowed next in christes church in them likewise to declare howe gracious our good god euer hath bene to work wonderfully w e them which in his cause haue ben in extreme perilles it were a matter enough to write a longe boke I wil here name but one man and one woman that is Athanasius the great clerke godly man stoutly standing in christes cause against the Arrians that holy woman Blandina standing so constantly in all extreme paynes in the simple cōfession of christ If thou wilt haue examples of mo loke and thou shalt haue both these a hundred mo in Ecclesiastica historia of Eusebius in Tripartita historia But for all these examples both of holy scripture and of other histories I feare mee the weake man of God incombred with the frailty and infirmity of the fleshe wil haue now and then suche thoughtes and guawmes as they cal thē to run ouer his hart and to thynke thus all theis thinges which are rehersed oute of the scrypture I beleue to be true of the rest truly I do thinke wel and can beleue them also to be true but all these we must nedes graūt were special miracles of god whych now in our dayes are ceased we se to require them at gods handes were it not to tēpt god Welbeloued brother I graūt such were great wonderful works of god and we haue not sene many of suche miracles in our time eyther for that our sight is not cleare for truly God worketh with his his part in all times orels bicause we haue not the like faith of thē for whose cause God wrought such thinges or bicause after that he had set forth the truth of his doctrine by suche miracles then sufficientlye the tyme of so manye myracles to be done was expired withall Which of theis is the moste speciall cause of all others or whether there be anye othere God knoweth I leaue that to God But knowe thou this my wel-beloued in God that Gods hande is as strong as euer it was he maye do what his gracyous plesure is and he is as good and gracious as euer he was Man chaūgeth as the garment doth but god our heauenly father is euen the same now that he was and shal be for euermore The world without doubt this I do beleue therfore I saye draweth towardes an end and in al ages god hath had his owne maner after hys secrete and vnsearchable wisdome to vse his elect somtimes to deliuer thē and to kepe them safe and somtimes to suffer theym to drinke of Christes cup that is to fele the smarte and to fele of the whyp And though the fleshe smarteth at the one and feeleth ease in the other is glad of the one and sore vexed

to satisfye paie the pryce of synnes bothe of the deade and of the quicke to the great and intolerable contumely of Christ our sauyour his death passion whiche was and is the one onely sufficient and euerlastinge auaylable sacrifice satisfactorie for al the electes of god from Adam the fyrst to the laste that shal be borne in the ende of the worlde Of late that commaundemente of god thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen ymage nor any similytude or lykenes of any thyng in heauen aboue or in earth beneath or in the water vnder the earth thou shalt not bowe down to them nor worship them this comaundment of God I say was grauen almost euery where in churches was learned of euery body bothe younge and olde whervppon Images that prouoked the symple and ignorant people vnto idolatry as the wise man saith were taken out of the churches and straytly forbidden that none should any wher eyther bowe downe to them or worshippe them But now alas goddes holy woorde is blotted and rased out of churches and stockes and stones are set vppe in the place therof God commaunded his woorde so to be ordered that it mighte be had in contynuall remembrance at all times and in euery place and on the otherside he forbad ymages and idoles so to be eyther made or set in any place wher any shoulde bowe or worshyp them But now alas that which god commanded is not passed vpon and that whiche he forbyddeth is masterfully mainteined by falshed and craft and wickedly vpholden Of late al ministers that were admitted to the publike office and mynistery of goddes holy word in their admission made a solempne professyon before the congregation that they shoulde teach the people nothinge as doctrine necessarie to attaine eternal saluation but that which is goddes owne holy woorde or may be thereof grounded without any doubt wherby vanished and melted away of thēselues many vaine yea wicked traditions of man as waxe before the fyer but nowe at one brunte they are reuiued and are in ful hope all to returne againe in as great strength as euer they haue bene And howe can any man looke for any other thyng but whē you haue receiued the head you muste also receiue the whole body withal orelles how can the head abyde The head vnder Satan of al mischiefe is Antichrist his broode and the same is he which is the baby lonical beast The beast is he whervppon the whore sytteth the whore is that Citie saithe Iohn in playne wordes which hath the empire ouer the kinges of the earth This whore hath a golden cuppe of abhominations in her hand wherof she maketh to drinke the kinges of the earthe of the wine of this harlot hath al nations dronke yea and kynges of the earth haue lyen by this whoore and marchauntes of the earthe by vertue of her pleasaunte marchandise haue ben made ryche Nowe what citie is there in al the whole world that whē Iohn wrote ruled ouer the kynges of the earthe or what Citie can be redde of in any tyme that of the citie it selfe chalēged the empire ouer the kings of the earth but onely the citie of Rome that sence the vsurpation of that see hath growen to her full strenghe And is it not red that old and auncient writers vnderstande Peters former Epistle to be written at Rome and it to be called of him in the same Epistle in plaine termes Babylō by the abhominations thereof I vnderstande all the whole trade of the Romishe relygion vnder the name title of Christe which is contrary to the only rule of al true religion that is goddes worde What woorde of god hath that dy●elishe drab for the mayntenaunce of her manyfolde abhominations and to set to sel souche marchaundise wherewith alas the madnes of man the wycked harlott hath bewitched almooste the whole worlde Dyd not Peter the true Apostell of Christe of whom this stinking strumpette beareth her selfe so high but falsely and without al iust cause dyd not he I say geue all the worlde warnynge of her pelfe and trashe of her false doctours and apostles for this whoore and beast wyll be called Dominus Apostolicus who so euer say nay after this maner in his later epistle There was among the people in tymes past false prophetes as there shall be also amonge you in time to come false teachers whiche shall priuily bringe in pestylent sectes euen denyinge the lorde whiche hath bought them and redemed thē procuring to them selus swift damp nation and many shall followe their dampnable waies by whō the waye of trueth shall be rayled vppon and through couetousnes by counterfaite tales or sermons they shal saith Peter make marchandise vpon you c. And dothe not Iohn likewise in his reuelation after he hath reconed vp a greate rablemente of this whoores mystical marchandise at the laste as though he wold knit vp al in playne wordes wythout any myst at al settyng out the whoores marchandyse recken vp amonge the rest concludeth sayinge Et animas hominū that is to say the soules of men too Wher vpon I pray you elles rose this true prouerbe in latin Omnia Rome venalia al things for money are set to sale at Rome Was not that a worthy cōmendation of Christes vicar in earth that was written of our holy father one of the Alexanders a byshoppe of Rome thus I wene in latine Vendit Alexander cruces altaria Christum Vendere iuri potest emerat ille prius These twoo verses in laten I haue red thus of one translated into englishe rime Alexander our holy father the pope of Rome selleth for money bothe ryght and dome And al kind of holines the holy father doth not stick to set to sel redy money for to get And eke Christ him selfe he dare be bolde to chop and chaunge for siluer and golde And why should any thinke this to be sore for what doth he sell but that he bought before I graunte these verses to be lyght gere and the verse is but rude but alas such conditions were more wicked and leude then any wytte coulde expresse If these had ben but the faltes of one or a fewe in number they had ben lesse pernicious and mighte haue ben taken for personal crimes not to be imputed vnto that see but now alas the matter is more thē euident to al that hath godly vnderstāding that these crimes be grounded vpon lawes be stablished by costom and set forthe by all kinde of wycked doctrine falshed craft and therefore are not now to be estemed for any one mannes or of a fewe mennes personal crimes but are now by lawes costome and doctrine incorporated into that wicked see maketh in dede the body of the beast whervpō the abhominable whore doth sit But you wolde knowe whiche be those marchandise which I said this whoore setteth forthe to sell for the which al her false prophetes with al