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death_n	eternal_a	glory_n	life_n	7,443	5	4.5617	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11245	Truthe tryed very comfortable to the faithfull, but a discomfort to the enemies of God / newly sette forth by J.S.	J. S.	1562 (1562)	STC 21506; ESTC S2307	22,134	63

defloured maydens a broode of caterpillers that wast consume and destroye all where they come a merciles people and destitute of the true knowledge of god What should I say euen a people hated and abhorred of vs and of all nations And yet we wer then in subiection to them Psalm 10● Thē was the world turned vp side down with Englande mercy and pitye were fled the realm and merciles cruelty supplied the place iniquitie had the ouerhand The true teachers and preachers of his worde the ministers and chosen vessels of Iesu Christ i Cori. 4. i. Thessa 2 were then made as it had bene gasyng stockes to all the worlde reuiled euil spoken of despised emprisoned and that onely for professing their maister Christ but happy ye twise happye are they and all suche for the spirite of god i Peter 4 and the spirite of glory resteth vpon them that he railed vpon for the name of Christ For suche as God hathe chosen to himselfe haue bene in respect of the world wretched miserable turmoiled with manifolde troubles for so is the promise of almightye God Iohn 1● * Because ye bee not of the worlde the worlde doth hate you and all that will liue godly in Christe Iesu saieth Paule shall suffer persecution Let therfore the fruites of the late godly ministers shewe of whence they were For suche was I say their stedfastnes in Christe Iesu and suche was their feruente zeale loue and hartye affection towarde GOD and hys holye worde which they so perfectly preached and faithfully taught that for the aduauncement thereof and the better strengthning of the faithe of their weaker bretherne 2. Tim. 2. they were content like constant faithfull and worthy souldiours of Iesu Christe theyr graunde capitayn not only to suffer hunger cold railing mocking buffeting whipping and imprisoning but also to geue their body to the fire there to be cōsumed to ashes Oh terrible tyme Oh pitifull spoile and Oh miserable murder destruction of gods houshold i. Peter 2 * but then was the time come that iudgement must begin at the house of god 2 Tim 2 * They wer vessels sanctified vnto honor mete for the lorde This didde they through the assistaunce of the holye ghoste for the aduauncement of gods glory 2 Tim 2 * and for the electes sake that they might also obtayne the saluation whiche is in Christ Iesu with eternall glorye patientlye and meekely as lambes receiued they deathe Saplen 5 * Whose lyfe of the foolyshe was thought to be verye madnesse and their ende to bee without honour but they are coumpted amongest the children of God Hebr vi and theyr portion is amongest the Saintes * Thoughe in the syght of the vnwyse they appeared to dye and theyr ende to bee verye destruction yet are they in reste and their hope full of immortality Rom 8 2 Cor ●… 5 Hebr xi * They confessed theymselues to bee as straungers and pylgrems vppon the earthe They were no gredye gapers for prefermente neyther benefice nor Bishopryke nor anye other worldlye promotion or dignitye although largelye offred and promised yf they would haue forsaken their maister Christe and hys woorde coulde tempte or ouercome theym nor with drawe theyr earneste myndes from God They woulde not be fedde with eye pleasures they estemed not the tryslyng treasure of thys transitorye worlde nor the vayne and peryllous pompe thereof as the vayneglorious beallye god Byshoppes and woorrieng wolues who then sucked theyr innocente bloude dydde but suche was the godly constantnesse I saye of those lambes of God that they were nothynge myndefull of the countrye wherein they then were but were desyrous of a better that is to say Sapie 3. a heauenly* For God had proued them and founde them mete for hym selfe As golde in the furnace hadde he tryed them * They wer led by the spirite of God Rom. 8. bycause the spirite of God dwelled in them* Wherefore God is not ashamed of them euen to be called their God and hath prepared for them a citye euen the heauenly Ierusalem Now is the promyse of Christ perfourmed in them Iames. 1. * he that endureth when he is tryed shall receaue the crowne of lyfe prepared for them that loue him whereof they are nowe partakers for he that looseth his life for my sake saith Christ Math. 19. shal fynde it euen these therfore were of that number that haue geuen their lyfe for their Master Christe hys sake and in the defence of hys truth therforē haue they receaued the reward of a Prophete whiche was encrease of knowledge in this life and euerlasting ioye and felicitye in the worlde to come wherof God for his mercies sake make vs with them to be partakers But Oh England be myndful how God then of hys iuste iustice reuenged the vnmercifull persecution bloudshed of those his innocent lambes Prophets Martyrs sanctifyed soldiours whose bloud cried vengeance in the sight of god vpon the vnthankefulnes of his wycked enemyes whiche euen then fel vpō vs our countrey what numbers of plages thē followed one in an others necke mysery dayly increased the cōmon wealth went to ruine for want of those in whō the feare of god was graffed who being alreadye murdered or for conscience sake fled their countrey or remayning at home absented thēselues to auoide the daunger of being cōsumed to death by fyre But in a myserable state is the realme where the guyders of the flocke are withoute vnderstandyng and wher the truth of God is not taught Whereof the experience was then bothe to well seene and felte for whoe in those dayes were they that florished or whoe as the tearme goeth ruled then the roste in ecclesiasticall causes But the Romysh race of princelyke prelates the monsterous myghterd men whose ruffle and rauenous procedynges for wante of Godlye skyll or throughe a dyuelyshe obstinacye for lacke of good will to guyde theyr flocke what Christian harte lamenteth not to remember For in place of true teachers of the gladde tydinges of Iesu Christ we hadde detestable destroyers poysoned peruerters and shamelesse shadowers of the same whose onely care studye and trauell tended to trayne vs vp and kepe vs in ignorance and blyndnes accordyng to their wonted maner to kepe and mayntaine in full force the whole rable of the Romyshe abhominations to exalte and kepe in hys pompe the monsterous Antichrist of Rome as chiefe and supreme head gouernour of the Church which title by the autoritye of the Scriptures belongeth to euery prince within his owne dominions as well in causes ecclesiasticall as temporall and yet wer not they eyther ashamed or afrayed of thys theyr wicked procedynges neyther respected they the glory of almyghty God nor regarded their due obedience to their prince wherfore they declared themselues to be the same Ierem 5 1 Reg 14 that Ieremy speaketh of Wyse to do euill but to do wel they knowe not * shewinge