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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

secretes as were not cōuenient mete to vtter to men but counted all hys workes doinges as nothing to winne Christ. And I most presūptuously thinking nothing of Christ crucified went about to set furth mine owne righteousnes saying w t the proude Pharisey Good lord I thanke y e I am not like other mē I am none adulterer nor fornicatour so furth w t suche like wordes of vaynglory extollyng my self dispising others working as an hired seruaunt for wagies orels for reward not as a louing childe ōly for very loue w tout respect of wagies or reward as I ought to haue done neyther did I cōsidre howe beneficiall a father I had who dyd shewe me his charitie mercie of his owne mere grace goodnes y e when I was most his ennemie he sent his only begottē welbeloued Sonne into thys world of wretchednes misery to suffre most cruel sharpe deathe for my redempcion But my hart was so stony hard y t this great benefite was neuer truly liuely printed in my hart although w t my wordes it was oftē rehearsed thinking my selfe to be sufficiently instructed in y e same and being in dede in blind ignorance And yet I stoode so wel in mine owne iudgement opiniō y t I thought it vayne to seke y e encreace of my knowlege therin Paule calleth Christe the wisedome of god and euen the same Christe was to me folishnes my pryde blindnes disceyued me the hardnes of my hart withstode the growing of truthe within it Suche were the fruites of my carnall and humane reasons to haue rotten ignoraunce in pryce for rype and seasonable knowlege Suche also is the malice wickednes that possesseth the hertes of men suche is the wisedome and pleasing of the fleshe I professed Christe in my baptisme whē I beganne to liue but I swarued from him after baptisme in continuaunce of my lyuing euen as the heithen whiche neuer had begunne Christe was innocent and voyde of all sinne and I wallowed in fylthie sinne was free from no sinne Christe was obedient vnto his father euē to the death of the crosse I disobedient and most stubburne euen to the confusion of truthe Christ was meke and humble in harte and I moste proude and vaynegloryous Christe dispised the worlde with all the vanities therof and I made it my god bicause of y e vanities Christ came to serue his bretheren I coueted to rewle ouer thē Christe dispysed worldlye honor and I much delited to attayne the same Christ loued the base and simple thinges of the world and I estemed the moste fayre and pleasant thinges Christe loued pouertie and I welth Christ was gentle and merciful to the poore and I hard harted vngentle Christe prayed for his enemies I hated mine Christ reioysed in y e conuercion of sinners I was not greued to see their reuerciō to sinne By this declaraciō all creatures may perceyue howe farre I was from Christ w tout Christe yea how cōtrary to Christ although I bare y e name of a Christian. In so muche y t if any mā had sayde I had ben w tout Christe I woulde haue stifly withstande the same And yet I neyther knewe Christ nor wherfore he came As concernyng the effecte and pourpose of his comming I had a certayne vayne blind knowlege both cold dead which may ●e had with al sinne as it doth playnly appere by this my confession open declaraciō What cause nowe haue I to lament mourne sigh wepe for my life time so euil spent w t howe much humilitie lowlines ought I to cum knowlege my sinnes to god geuing hī thākes y t it hath pleased hym of his haboundaunt goodnes to geue me time of repentaunce for I know my sinnes in y e consideracion of thē to be so greuouse in y e number so exceding y t I haue deserued very oftē eternal damnaciō And for the deseruing of goddes wrath so manifoldlie due I must vncessantly geue thankes to the mercy of god beseching also that y e same delay of punishment cause not his plage to be the sorer since mine own cōscience condēneth my former doinges But his mercy excedeth al iniquitie and if I shuld not thus hope Alas what should I seke for refuge cōfort no mortal man is of power to help me for the multitude of my sinnes I dare not lyft vp myne eyes to heauen where the seate of iudgement is I haue so muche offended god What shal I fal in desperacion nay I wyll call vpon Christ the light of the worlde the fountayne of life the releife of al carefull and the peacemaker betwene god and man and the only health and comforte of al true repentant sinners He can by his almighty power saue me delyuer me out of this miserable state and hath will by his mercy to saue euen the whole sinne of y e world I haue no hope nor confidence in any creature neyther in heauen nor earth but in Christe my whole and only Sauiour He came into the worlde to saue sinners and to heale them that are sicke for he sayeth the whole haue no nede of a Phisicion Beholde lord howe I come to the a sinner sycke greuously wounded I aske not breade but the crummes that fall from the childrens table Cast me not oute of thy sight although I haue deserued to be cast in to hell fier If I shoulde looke vpon my sinnes and not vpō thy mercy I shoulde dispayre for in my selfe I fynde nothing to saue me but a donghill of wyckednes to condemne me if I shoulde hope by myne owne strength and power to cum oute of thys mase of iniquitie and wickednes wherin I haue walked so long I shoulde be disceyued For I am so ignorant blinde weake feble that I cannot bring my selfe out of this intangled weyward mase but y e more I seke meanes wayes to wind my selfe out the more I am wrapped tangled therin So y t I perceyue my striuing therin to be hynderance my trauayle to be labour spent in going backe It is the hand of y e lord that can will bring me out of this endles mase of death for without I be preuented by the grace of the lorde I can not aske forgeuenes nor be repentante or sory for thē There is no man can auowe that Christe is the only Sauiour of the world but by the holy ghost yea as Saynt Paule sayeth no man can say the lorde Iesus but by the holy ghost The spirit helpeth our infirmities and maketh continuall intercession for vs with suche soroful groninges as can not be expressed Therfore I wyll first require and pray the lorde to

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