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A04930	A fort for the afflicted VVherin are ministred many notable & excellent remedies against the stormes of tribulation. Written chiefly for the comforte of Christes little flocke, which is the final number of the faithfull, by Iohn Knoxe.; Percel of the. vi. Psalme expounded	Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572.; Fleming, Abraham, 1552?-1607.	1580 (1580)	STC 15074.8; ESTC S121924	38,221	112

therefore destruction shal sodainly fal vppon them But with what kinde of plagues they shalbee stricken in this life and whome GOD shall appoint to execute his 〈◊〉 vppon them that I remit to his good pleasure and further reuelation But their manifest inquitie is vnto mee an assured assurance that long they cannot escape the 〈◊〉 of them most iustly deserued But in the meane season beloued brethren two● thinges yee must auoide the former that yee presume not to bee reuengers of your owne cause but that yee resigne ouer vengeance vnto him who onely is able to requite them according to their malicious mindes Secondly that yee hate not with any ●arnal hatred these blinde cruel and malicious tyrantes but that yee learne of Christ to pray for your persecutors lamenting and bewayling that the Deuil shoulde so preuaile against them that headlong they shoulde runne body and soule to perpetual perdition And note wel that I say wee may not hate them with a carnal hatred that is to say onely because they trouble our bodies For there is a spiritual hatred which Dauid 〈◊〉 a perfect hatred which the holy Ghost engendreth in the 〈◊〉 of Gods elect against the rebellious contemners of his holy statues And it is when 〈◊〉 more lament that Gods glorie is suppressed and that Chris●es flocke is defrauded of their wholesome foode thē that our bodies are persecuted With this hatred was Ieremie inflamed when he praied let me see thy vengeance taken vpon thine enemies O Lorde With this hatred may we hate tyrants and earnestly may we pray for their destruction be they kings or Queenes Princes or Prelates And further yee shal note that the praiers made in the feruencie of this hatred are before God so acceptable that often times he that praieth obtaineth the selfesame thing that the external words of his praier doe meane as Dauid Ieremie and other of the Prophetes sawe with their corporal eies the whote vengeance of God powred forth vpon the cruel tyrants of their age I am assured that some which this day do ●ob grone vnder your tyrānous bishops shall see the like vpon the Pestile●t Papistes within the Realme of England This my affirmation proceedeth not frō any coniecture of mans phantasie but frō the ordinary cause of gods iudgements against manifest contemners of his preceptes from the beginning which is this First to rebuke and notifie by his messengers such sinnes as before the worlde are not knowen to bee sinne Secondly to prouoke them to repentance Thirdly to suffer the reprobate to declare their owne impenitencie before the worlde and last to powre vpon them so manifest vengeance that his churche may bee instructed aswel of his power as of his seuere iudgementes against inobedience This was the order of his iudgement against Pharao against Saule against Ieroboam against Herode against the Scribes and Pharisees and against the whole citie of Ierusalem Our eares haue hearde and our eyes haue seene the first three diettes of the Lordes iudgement executed against the Pestilent Papistes within the Realme of Englande For wee haue hearde their summoning and citation duelie executed by the Messengers of Gods woorde Wee haue hearde them accused and conuicted before their owne faces of theft and murther of blasphemie against God of idolatrie and finally of al abhominations which crimes being laide to their charge in their owne presence they were not able to deny so potent so plaine euident was gods worde whereby their secrete botches olde festered sores were discouered reuealed We knowe that long processe of time hath beene graunted by Gods lenitie to their conuersion and repentance And howe litle the same hath auailed these present dayes may testifie For who nowe doeth not espie their malice to encrease their obstinacie to bee such as none can be greater Shal wee then thinke that God wil giue ouer his cause as that he were not able to preualie against Tyrants Not so deare brethrē not so But euē so assuredly as our god liueth by whose spirite was stirred vp some of his elect first to espie the great abhominatiōs of those tyrantes in this our age which his messengers in despite of their tyranny God preserued to proclaime notifie before their owne faces such sinnes as the worlde knewe not to bee sinne and assuredly as we haue espied thē still to continue in malice against God against his eternal veritie and against the messengers of the same so assuredly shal wee see Gods extreme plagues powred foorth vppon them euen in this corporal life That some 〈◊〉 vs may witnesse to the generation that shal folowe the wonderous workes that the Lorde hath wrought and will worke in this our age Neither shal the●e plagues more then the worde of God which passed before worke in them any true repentance but stil in a blinde 〈◊〉 they shall rebel against the Maies●●e of God For the deadly venome of that malicious serpent their father the Diuel can ●euer bee purged from their cankered heartes And therfore after these plagues of whome some wee haue hearde and seene for what a Plague was it to the false Bishop of Doresme before his face to bee called murtherer and theefe and of the same to be conuict that neither could him selfe deny it neither any of his proctours or diuine doctours being present with him durst enterprise to speake one worde in defence of his cause After these plagues I say of whom some wee haue seene and the rest wee shortly looke for res●eth the last the vnq●ēchable fire which is prepared for their portion And therfore yet again dearely beloued in our Sauiour Iesus Christe hope you against hope and against al worldly appearance For assuredly as God is immutable so assuredly shal he stirre vp one Iehu or other to execute his vengeāce vpon those blood thirstie tyrants and obstinate idolaters And therefore abide yee patiently the time that is appointed to our correction and to the ful ripenesse of their malicious mindes Bee not discouraged although the Bishops haue gotten the victorie So did the Beniamites naturall brethren to our Bishops defenders of who●edom of al abhohominable adulterie twice preuaile against the Israelites who fought at Gods commaundement Yee shall consider beloued brethren that the counsels of God are profounde and inscrutable The most iust man is innocent in his sight There may be secrete causes why God sometimes wil permit the most wicked to preuaile triumph in the most vniust action but yet wil hee not long delay to execute his his wrath and iustly deserued vengeance vpon such as bee proude murtherers obs●inate idolaters and impenitent malefactours And the●fore haue they not great cause to reioyce For albeit they haue once preuailed against fleshe yet shall GOD shortely bring them to vtter confusion and great shame for euer Let Winchester and his cruel counsel deuise and studie till his wits faile howe

that the Prophet doeth acknowledge all troubles that hee susteined as well in body as in spirite to bee sent of God and not to happen vnto him by chaunce for heerein peculiarly differ the sonnes of God frō the reprobate that the sonnes of God knowe both prosperitie and aduersitie to bee the giftes of GOD onely as Iob doeth witnesse And therfore in prosperitie commonly they are not insolent nor proude but euen in the day of ioy and rest they looke for trouble and sorrowe Neither yet in the time of aduersitie are they altogether lefte without comforte but by one meane or other God sheweth vnto them that the trouble shal haue ende Where contrarywise the reprobate taking all thinges of chance or els making an idol of their owne wisdom in prosperitie are so puft vp that they forget God without any care that trouble shoulde followe And in aduersitie they are so deiect that they looke for nothing bu● Hell Here must I put you in minde dearely beloued howe often you and I haue talked together of these present dayes till neither of vs both coulde refraine teares when no such apparance there was seene by man How often haue I saide vnto you that I looked dayly for trouble and that I wondred at it that so long I did escape it What mooued me to refuse and that with displeasure of al men euen of those that best loued mee those high promotions that were offered by him whō God hath takē frō vs for our offēces Assuredly the foresight of troubles to come How oft haue I said vnto you that the time woulde not bee long that England woulde giue mee bread Aduise with the last letter that I wrote vnto your brother in lawe consider what is therein conteined While I had this trouble you had the greater sent I doubt not to vs both of God that in that great rest and as we cal it whē the gospel triumphed we should not bee so carelesse and so insolent as others were Who albeit they professed Christe in mouth yet sought they nothing but the worlde with hand with foote with counsel and wisedome And albeit at this present our comfort appeareth not yet before all the plagues be powred foorth it shalbe known that there is a God who taketh care for his owne Secondarily is to be noted that the nature and ingenie of the very sonnes of God in the time of their trouble is to impute vnto God som other affection then there is or can be in him towardes his children And sometime to complaine vpon God as that he did those things that in very deede hee cannot doe to his elect Dauid Iob often complaine that God hath left them was become their enimie regarded not their praiers tooke no heede to deliuer them And yet vnpossible it is that God either shal leaue his chosen or that hee shal despise the humble petitions of suche as doe call vpon his support But suche complaints are the voices of the flesh wherwith God is not offended to the forsaking reiection of his elect but pardoneth them among other innumerable infirmities sinnes And therefore dearely beloued dispaire you not albeit the fleshe sometime burst out into heauie complaints as it were accusing God you are not more perfect then was Dauid and Iob. And you cannot bee so perfect as Christ himselfe was who vppon the crosse cried My God my God why hast thou forsaken me Consider deare mother how lamentable and horrible were these wordes to the onely sonne of God And Dauid in the 88. Psal. which for better vnderstanding I desire you reade cōplaineth vpon God that night day he had cried and that yet he was not deliuered But saith he my soule is replenished with dolour I am as a man without strength I am like vnto those that are gone downe into the pit of whom thou hast no more minde like vnto those that are cut of by thy hande Thou hast put mee in a deepe dungeon al thy wrath lieth vpon mee Why leauest thou me Lorde why hydest thou thy face from me thou hast remoued al my freendes from mee thou hast made mee odious vntoo them And thus hee endeth his Psalme and complainte without mention of any comfort at al receiued And Iob in diuers places of his booke maketh euen the like complaintes sometime saying that God was his enimie and had set him as it were a marke to shoote at and therefore that his soule desired the very destruction These things I recite vnto you deerely beloued vnderstanding what haue beene your troubles heeretofore and knowing that Sathan wil not cease nowe to perswade to your tender conscience that none of God his elect hath beene in like case as you are but by these presidentes and many other places which now to collect I haue no opportunitie it plainely doth appeare that God his chosen vessels haue suffered the like temptations I remember that ofte you haue complained vpon the grudging and murmuring that you founde which in your selfe fearing that it prouoked God to more displeasure Beholde and consider deere mother what God hath borne with his saintes before wil hee not beare the same with you beeing most sorie for your imperfections Hee cannot other wise do● But as his wisedome hath made vs al of one masse and nature earth and earthly and as hee hath redeemed vs with one price the blood of his only sonne so hee according to his promise like mercifully pardoneth doneth the offences of al those that cal vpon the name of the Lorde Iesus of those I meane that refuse all other Iustice but his alone But to our matter of these presidents plaine it is that God his elect before you haue suffered the like crosse as presentlie you suffer that they haue complained as you complaine that they haue thought themselues abiect as you haue thought and yet may thinke your selfe and yet neuerthelesse they were sure in GOD his fauour Hope deare mother and looke you for the same hope I say against hope Howe horrible the paine is to suffer that crosse can none expresse except such as haue prooued it feareful it is for the very payne it selfe but most feareful it is for that the godlie so tormented iudge God to bee angrie in furor and in rage against them as is before expressed Seeing wee haue founde this crosse to appertaine to God his children profitable it shalbe and necessarie to searche out the causes of the same Plaine it is that not only God worketh al to the profite of his elect but also that hee woorketh it of such loue towardes them and with such wisedome that otherwise thinges coulde not bee and this to vnderstande is very profitable partly to satisfie the grudging complaintes of the fleshe which in trouble commonly doeth question Why doth God this or that And albeeit the fleshe in this earth can neuer bee fully satisfied but euen as hunger and thirst from time to time assaulteth it so doe

without al feeling of consolation and that they thinke themselues altogether destitute as may be seene in Dauid But it is chiefly to be noted that Dauid in this his anguish remembreth that God sometimes had bene familiar with him for he saieth Turne again O Lord signifying thereby that before he had felt the sweetenesse of Gods presence but now he was left to him selfe without feeling of comfort or consolation For thus appereth Dauid to complaine Hast thou not bene familiar with mee O Lorde thy vnprofitable seruaunt Diddest thou not cal me from keeping sheepe to be annointed King ouer thy people Israel Diddest thou not so incourage my minde that I feared not the fresh strēgth of the cruel Lion neither yet the deuouring teeth of the hungry Beare frō whose iawes I deliuered my sheepe Didst not thou once inflame my hart with the zeale of thy holie name that when al Israel were so afraid that none durst incoūter with that mōster Goliah yet thy spirit made me so bold and so valiant that without harnesse or weapons except my slingstaffe stones I durst enterprise singular battel against him was it not thy strength that gaue me victorie not only at that time but also of al other my enimies that haue sought my life since Hast not thou made mee so glad by the multitude of thy mercies thy most gracious fauor which thou from time to time most abūdantly hast powred vpō me that both soule body hath reioyced through the galdnes of thy countenāce hast thou not bin so effectually with me present in troubles and dangers that my very enemies haue known cōfessed that thy power was alwaies with me and that thou diddest take my defence vppon thy selfe and wilt thou now so leaue the habitation which thou hast chosen Shal it bee left desolate for euer can thy mercies haue an end and shal thy fatherly pitie neuer appeare more vnto me Shalt thou leaue me for euer thus to be tormēted whō thou hast afore so abundātly comforted O Lorde I am sure thy mercies wil not so entreat me and therfore turn again O Lorde and make mee glad with thy countenaunce whome of long time thou hast left voide of consolation comfort Aduert and consider dearely beloued in what estate was Dauid when that he had none other comfort except the only remembrāce of Gods former benefits shewed vnto him And therfore meruel ye not nor yet dispaire ye albeit that you find your self in the same case that Dauid was Sure I am that your owne heart must confesse that ye haue receiued like benefits at the hand of God as Dauid did He hath called you from a more vile office then from the keeping of sheepe to as great a dignitie touching the euerlasting inheritance as hee did Dauid For from the seruice of the Deuil and sin hee hath annointed vs Priestes and Kings by the blood of his onely Sonne Iesus hee hath giuen you courage and boldnesse to fight against more cruel more suttle more dangerous and against enemies that be more nigh vnto you then either was the Lyon the Beare or Goliah to Dauid against the Deuil I meane and his assaultes against your owne fleshe and most inwarde affections against the multitude of them that were and yet remaine enemies to Christes religion yea against some of your natural friendes which appeare to professe Christ with you and in that part the battel is the more vehement What boldnesse I haue seene with you in al suche conflictes it needeth not me to rehearse I write this to the praise of God I haue wondred at that bolde constancie which I haue found in you at such time as mine owne heart was fainte Sure I am that fleshe and blood coulde neuer haue persuaded you to haue contemned and set at naught those thinges that the worlde most esteemeth you haue tasted and felte of Gods goodnes and mercies in suche measure that not onely ye are able to reason and speake but also by the spirite of God working in you to giue comfort and consolation to such as were in trouble and therefore most deare mother thinke not that God wil leaue his own mansion for euer No impossible it is that the Deuil shal occupie Gods inheritance or yet that God shal so leaue and forsake his holie Temple that hee wil not sanctific the same Againe God sometimes suspendeth his own presence from his elected as heere by Dauid may be espied And verie often suffer●th he his elect to tast of bitternesse griefe for such causes as are before expres●ed but to suffer thē to bee at rest out of his hands he neither wil nor may permit for so were he a mutable God gaue his glorie to another if he permitted himself to be ouercome of his aduersarie which is as like impossible as it is that God shal cease to bee God Now lastly Dauid prayeth Deliuer my soule saue me In this praier no dout Dauid desired to bee deliuered from the verie corporal death at that time his soule to be saued frō those present plagues grieuous tormēts that he susteined In which it might appeare to some that he was more addict to this present life that he loued more the quietnes of the flesh then it became a spiritual man to do But as before is said God hath naturally ingraffed and planted in man this loue of life tranquilitie and rest the most spiritual man oft time desireth them because they are seales witnesses of that league and felowship that is betweene God and his elect And albeit that troble doth most commonly folow the friends of God yet is he nothing assured that earnestly we aske our quietnes neither is that our desire any declaration of carnalitie or of inordinate loue that we haue to the world considering that the final cause wherfore we desire to liue is not for inioying of worldly pleasures for many times in the midst of those we grāt and cōfesse that better it is to be absent from the body but the chi●fe cause why Gods elect do desire life or to haue rest in earth is for the maintenance of Gods glory that other may see that God taketh a care ouer his elected But now to the grounds foundatiōs of Dauids praiers wherupon his praiers do stand The first is taken from the vehement troble which he sustained from the long continuance of the same The second is takē from the goodnes of God And the third from Gods glorie and from the insolent rage of his enemies Here is to be obserued noted that neither is trouble neither long continuance of the same neither yet the proud hautie mindes of wicked men the chiefe mouing cause why God heareth our praiers declareth himselfe merciful vnto vs and therfore they may not be the sure and sound foundations of our praiers But only Gods infinit goodnes is the fountaine of al mercy grace which springeth

accuse their former negligence then lament they the miserable affliction of their brethren and then crye cal they in their heartes and openly where they dare for free passage of the Gospel This hunger and thirst doeth prooue the life of their soules But of suche men as hauing libertie to reade and exercise them selues in Gods holie scriptures yet begin to be wery because frō time to time they reade but one thing I aske why are not they weary euerie day to eate bread to drink wine to behold the brightnesse of the Sun to vse the rest of gods creatures which euery day do keepe their own substāce course and nature They shal answere I trust Because such creatures haue a strength to preserue the life O miserable creatures who dare attribute more power strength to the corruptible creatures in nourishing preseruing the mortal carkas then to the eternal woorde of God in the nourishment of the soule which is immortal To reason with their damnable vnthankfulnesse at this present is not my purpose But to you my deare brethren I wryte my knowledge and do speake my conscience That so necessarie as the vse of meate drink is to the preseruation of corporal life and so neces●arie as the heate and brightnesse of the Sunne is to the quickening of the hearbes and to expel darknesse So necessarie is also to the life euerlasting and to the illumination and light of the soule the perpetual meditation exercise vse of Gods holie word And therfore deere brethren if that yee looke for a life to come of necessitie it is that yee exercise your selues in the booke of the Lorde your God Let ●o day slip or want some comfort receiued from the mouth of God open your eares and he wil speake euen pleasant thinges to your heart close not your eyes but diligently let them beholde what portion of substance is left to you within your fathers Testament Let your tongues learne to praise the gracious goodnesse of him whose meere mercie hath called you from darkenesse to light and from death to life Neither yet may ye do this so quietly that ye wil admit no witnesse no brethren yee are ordained of God to rule your owne houses in his true feate according to his word Within your houses I say in some cases ye are Bishops and Kinges your wife children seruantes and family are your Bishopprike and charge of your it shalbe required howe carefully and diligently ye haue alwayes instructed them in Gods knowledge how that ye haue studied in them to plant vertue and suppresse vice And therefore I say ye must make them partakers in reading exhorting and in making common praiers which I woulde in euerie house were vsed once a day at least but aboue al thinges deare brethren studie to practise in life that which the worde of God commandeth and then be yee assured that yee shal neuer heare nor reade the same without fruite And thus much for the exercise within your houses Considering that S. Paule calleth the congregation the bodie of Christ whe●eof euerie one of vs is a member teaching vs therby that no member is of sufficiencie to susteine and feede it selfe without the helpe and support of an other I thinke it necessarie for the conference of scriptures assemblies of brethren be had The order therein to be obserued is ●xpressed by S. Paule and therefore neede not I to vse many woordes in that behalfe only willing that when the conuent are come together which I woulde were once a weeke that your beginning shoulde be from confession of your offences and inuocation of the spirite of the Lorde Iesus Christ to assist you in al your godly enterprises And thē let some place of scripture bee plainely and distinctly redde so much as shal be thought sufficient for one day or time which ended if any brother haue exhortation questiō or dout let him not feare to speake or moue the same so that he doe it with moderation either to edifie or to be edified And hereof I dout not but great profite shal shortly ensue For first by hearing reading and conferring the scriptures in the assemblie the whole bodie of the scriptures of God shal become familiar The iudgements and spirites of men shalbee tried Their patience and modestie shalbee knowne and finally their giftes and vtterance shal appeare Multiplication of wordes prolixe interpretations and wilfulnesse in reasoning is to be auoided at al times and in al places but chiefly in the congregation where nothing ought to be respected except the glorie of God comfort or edification of brethren If any thing occurre within the text or els arise in reasoning which your iudgements can not resolue or capacities comprehend let the same be noted and put in writing before yee dismisse the congregation that when God shal offer vnto you any interpretor your dout beeing noted and knowne may haue the more expedite resolution or els that when ye shal haue occasion to write to such as with whō ye wold communicate your iudgementes your letters may signifie and declare the vnceasing desire that ye haue of God and of his true religion And they I dout not according to their talents wil endeuour and bestow their faithful labours to satisfie your godly petitions Of my selfe I wil speake as I thinke I wil more gladly spend ten houres in communicating my iudgement with you in explayning as God pleaseth to open to me any place of scripture then halfe an houre in any matter beside Further I would in reading the scriptures ye should ioine some bokes of the olde and some of the newe Testament together as Genesis and one of the Euangelistes Exodus with an other so forth euer ending suche bookes as yee begin as the time wil suffer For it shal greatly comforte you to heare that harmonie wel tuned song of the holie spirite speaking in our fathers from the beginning It shal confirme you in these dangerous and perillous dayes to behold the face of Christ Iesus his louing spouse and Church from Abel to him selfe and from him selfe to this day in al ages to be one Be frequent in the Prophets and in the Epistles of S. Paul for the multitude of matters most comfortably therin contained requireth exercise good memorie Like as your assemblies ought to beginne with confession in●ocation of God his holie spirite So woulde I that they were finished with thanksgiuing commō praiers for princes Rulers Magistrates for the libertie and free passage of Christ his Euangelie for the cōfort and deliuerance of our afflicted brethren in al places now persecuted but most cruelly within the realmes of Fraunce and Englande and for such other thinges as the spirit of the Lord Iesus shal teach vnto you to bee profitable either to your selues or to your brethren whersoeuer they be If thus or better I shal heare that yee exercise your selues deare brethren then wil I praise God for your great obedience as for them that not onely haue receiued the word of grace with gladnesse but that also with care and diligence do keepe the same as a treasure and iewel most precious And because I can not suspect that ye wil doe the cōtrarie at this present I wil vse no threatnings for my good hope is that ye shal walk As the sonnes of light in the middest of this wicked 〈◊〉 That Ye ●hal be a● Starre● in the night ●eason who yet a●e not chaunged into 〈◊〉 That ye shal be wheat amongst the 〈◊〉 and yet that yee shal not chaunge your nature which ye haue receiued by grace through the ●elowship and par●icipatiō which we haue with the Lord Iesus in his bodie and blood And finally that ye shalbe of the number of the prudent vi●gins dayly renuing your 〈◊〉 with oyle as you that patiently doe abide the glorious apparition and comming of the Lord Iesus whose omnipotent spirit ●ule and instruct illuminate and comforte your 〈◊〉 and mindes● in al assaules 〈◊〉 and euermore Amen The grace of our Lord Iesus rest with you I.K. Imprinted at London by Thomas Dawson dwelling at the three Cranes in the Vintree 1580. The dolorous cōplaint of Dauid in his trouble His praier His confession God his very elect sometimes accuse God Rom. 10. Let this bee vvel noted Enimies driue vs from God vnder this crosse Esay 38. Iob. 9. Obiection of the fleshe Ansvvere by a similitude Ier. 18. Marke vve● In trouble Dauid remebreth vvhat God sometimes bad vvrought by him The most spiritual man desireth rest Mercie appertaineth to al the creatures of God that cal for the same vnfainedly Iob. 9. The eye of faith The most pure vvorkes that ma●● can do are in the sight of God v●cleane Oh most faithf●● confession The care of God is alvvaies one o●er his chosen Egesip lib. 1. cap 44. Actes 12. As God did to his afflicted Church in Iudea so sha● be doe the same in England Our imperfection may not hinder God to be merciful Gods elect are permit●ed sometimes ●orribly to fal The state of Christes Church before shortly after his death Note 〈◊〉 22. 〈…〉 2. Ti● 1. Luke 2. ● Cor. 3. The ●ause of ●●mforte VVby God should sodainely strike the Papist● in England VVhat vvee ought to auoid in extreeme trouble Mat. 5. Psalm 119. Perfect and godly hatred 〈…〉 〈…〉 Exo. 7. 8. 14. ● Kings 15. 3. Kings 13. Papistes haue bin summoned Papistes haue bin ac●used and con●icted Time of repentance hath beene graunted vnto Papistes The due execution approcheth Papists shal 〈◊〉 against God to the end To●stal conuicted of murther and theft to his face at Bervvicke The last plague of the Papists Iob. 5 Iob. 15. Esay 12