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A68302	A most excellent and comfortable treatise, for all such as are any maner of way either troubled in minde or afflicted in bodie, made by Andrew Kingesmyl Gentleman, sometime fellowe of Alsolne Colledge in Oxforde. Whereunto is adioyned a verie godly and learned exhortation to suffer patiently al afflictions for the gospel of Christ Iesus. And also a conference betwixt a godly learned Christian [and] an afflicted conscie[n]ce: wherein, by the holy Scriptures the sleights of Satan are made manifest, and ouerthrowen: with a godly prayer thereunto annexed	Kingsmill, Andrew, 1538-1569.; Mills, Francis.	1577 (1577)	STC 15000; ESTC S107429	44,945	104

likewise the historie sheweth of Ammonarion Mercuria Dionysia and other notable women that were so vnfearefull to suffer most sharpe death that they woulde runne when they heard where the execution was in hande and carie their young children with them such delight had they to suffer for Christes sake in great hast as vnto a ioyfull feast fearing nothing els but that the tormentours would spare them and that they should not be thought worthie to beare witnesse to Christes death with their owne bloud Call to your remembrance that faithfull woman and worthie martyr of Iesus Christ your owne countrie woman Anne Askew her imprisonment moued her not she litle weyed the cruel torture and tearing her bodie on the racke she ioyfully went to the fyer and was of more comfort in feeling the paine and lesse wearie thereof then the lookers on to beholde or the tormētours to do execution The historie sayeth that Theodorus a yong man was so grieuously tormēted with diuers and sundrie kindes of tormentes and at length his bodie so rent and torne that they left him for dead Whome Ruffinus the writer of the Ecclesiasticall storie afterward asked whether he felt not grieuous paines whiles he was in the torments to whom he aunswered that he felt verie litle paine For said he there stood as he thought a yong man by him who always wiped the sweat from him and so much comforted his stomacke that the time of the tormenting seemed to him much more pleasaunt then painefull Who made the yong men walke in the fire and burne not Who hardened these martyrs of men and women that they did not shrinke at paine but ranne thorow fire water and most cruell torments and not be ouercome Certainely euen he who had promised them that neither in fier water no nor yet in the shadowe of death he woulde be from them but woulde be their buckler defendour and shield faithfully performing that no temptation should so assaile them but that he woulde giue a ioyfull ende and deliuerance whereunto they trusted and so by their constant fayth ouercame and had the victorie For this is the victorie that ouercommeth the worlde euen our fayth Yea as S. Paul saith the time woulde not serue vs if we would rehearse how the Patriarks prophets Apostles Martyrs through faith subdued kingdomes wrought righteousnes obtained the promises stopped the mouthes of Lyons quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge of the sworde out of weaknes were made strōg waxed valiant in fight turned to flight the armies of the aliants the women receiued their dead raysed to life againe Other were racked and would not be deliuered that they might inherit a better resurrection Againe other were tried with mockings and scourgings moreouer with bonds and imprisonments were stoned were hewen in sunder were tempted were slaine with sworde And these al through fayth obtayned good report The holy Ghost hath caused these histories to be kept in writing for vs that are now in the latter dayes to this ende that we should not onely behold in them the fierie raging of the world from the beginning against the chosen people of God how stoutly they withstood ouercame by faythfull patience the malice therof but also that by reading of thē we should in our like troubles learne like patience receiue the same cōfort being thorowly tried cōceiue a sure hope of the same victorie which they after many sundrie trials did winne whereof we shal not be disapointed if we to the ende striue lawfully If it be to hard aboue your capacitie to beholde al the histories exāples propounded in the scriptures the Chronicles of Christes church with such cōsideration that you may espie behold in them the order of Gods working with his Church in all ages wherby to perceiue these your grieuous chaunges to be no new and vnwonted work of God If you doe not perceiue see in them the true iust cause which moueth the Lord hereunto and thereby to learne faithful repētance if you doe not vnderstand in diligent perusing them that the end and issue was alwayes ioyfull and glorious victorie deliueraunce wherewith to comfort your selues in the middes of miseries take into your handes the comfortable historie of King Dauid marke his whole life from that time he was taken from his fathers sheepe to his death beholde in him your selues in the people during the time of his rule the church of England and in the wonderfull iudgement of God in ordering his Church then what shal be the ende of his sharpe crosse wherwith he doeth exercise you at this time And to the ende you may the better see how to wade in considering his whole life we haue disclosed and opened for you to beholde a part thereof wherein you shall see plainely that the grieuous afflictions of euery one of you seuerally and of the whole Church of England together is not fallen by chaunce of euill or good fortune but by the mightie hande of God whose good will it is thus to haue you tried for a while also for what cause GOD thus worketh and what shal be the ende of al these dooings After the Lorde had founde out Dauid a man after his owne minde and appointed him King ouer his people who laboured worthily to deliuer and defend Gods people from their enemies the Idolatours that dwelt nere about them he did not graūt to him such quietnes neither to his people but that he was in continuall troubles and no small daungers during the life of Saul and also after his death the Idolatours and also Sauls friends seeking all the wayes that might be to disturbe him forth of his kingdome And not onely was he thus vexed with his foraine enemies but also most grieuously of all by those of his houshold who shoulde haue bin his most deare friends his owne natural sonne Absalom his most priuie Counselours the nobilitie of his Realme the most part of his subiectes Absalom pretending to his father Dauid a great holines as the maner of the hypocrites is desired to haue leaue to go into Hebron there to doe sacrifice for the performance of a vowe which he had made in the time of his being in Syria but his meaning was to obtaine the kingdome from his Father and to stirre all Israel against him which he brought to passe Dauid was banished and pursued vnto the death by his owne sonne who wrought so much vilanie against his father that he did not forbeare in the despite of him to misuse his fathers wiues in the sight of all the people how grieuouse and daungerous this sodaine chaunge was to Dauid to the godly people which were but a very fewe in respect of the great number of the malicious hypocrites which folowed Absalom it appeareth plainly in the storie and you may easely consider The best that was like to come of the matter was that whiles the kingdome of Israel was

did persecute them And Dioclesianus more like an infernall serpent then an earthly man did as it were deuoure the Church most cruelly In this time was the greatest persecution that had bene before The tormentours were much more wearie in sheading the Christian bloud and cruelly tormenting the faithfull then the holy martyrs were in suffering the paines There were in this persecutiō within thirtie daies aboue seuenteene thousand Christians killed most spitefully But Constantine the good Emperour became a Christian set the Church in peace was the f●●●… Emperour that did by publike authoritie put downe gentilitie and truely mainteined the Christianitie But that lasted not long for within short time after Iulianus th'apostata being Emperour went about to vndo al that Constantine had done vsed wonderfull policies to destroy the Christian religion and did afflict the faithfull verie grieuously After this time the Church was grieuously molested by the Arrians after with Hunnes Vandals and Gothes and so continued many yeres till all good learning began wonderfully to be decayed and at the length albeit the Church seemed to be at rest yet hath it bene euen to this daye miserably afflicted and the pure religion vtterly defaced by two vicars the Deuil put in commission at one time about eight hundreth yeres since the Antichrist of Rome for the West and Mahomet for the East Nowe weye and consider with your selues this same briefe rehersall of the state of Gods Churche howe the Church of the Israelites was afflicted in Aegypt then in the time of the Iudges next vnder the Ringes at the last caried into a straunge countrey captiues after their returne and reedifying of the Temple what great perils and troubles it sustained till after the dayes of the Machabees next consider the historie of Christ the Actes of the Apostles After this the ten notable persecutions the Church suffered vnder most cruell tyrantes from the eight yere of Nero by the space of three hundreth and twenty yeres vnto the time of Constantine and from his time three hundreth yeres after by the Arrians and barbarous Hunnes Vandals and Gothes by whose meanes good learning was decaied and ignorancie brought in And then marke with aduisement how that from that time hitherto Mahomet hath vsurped and afflicted the East Church and the Pope the west for he began to exercise his proude power ouer the Churche about the same time that Mahomet brought in his religiō consyder I saye with aduisement in all these times howe litle whyle Gods religion was mainteined in the Churche what perilous chaunges were in the kingdomes what exeeeding crueltie was alwayes vsed against the people of God as though they had bene heretikes his word condemned as heresie and the cause of all euils and you shall perceiue that this is no newe or vnkoth thing that the true religion of God should be thus put away and condemned and the faithfull Churche molested and afflicted both generally as is plaine in these histories and also particularly in the ministers faithful members as appeareth in Abel the Patriarches Prophets Christ his Apostles in a great number of holy sainctes and martyrs since the death of Christ til nowe our daies Thus may you plainely see how God hath wrought with his Church at all times and therefore should not discourage your selues because of this sodain chaūge but with Dauid acknowledging your sinnes to God declare vnto him how many they be that vexe you and rise against you naming you heretikes and the children of Belial as they named Dauid Let the wicked Idolaters boast and bragge that they haue ouercome you and that God hath giuen you ouer wil no more be your God let them put their trust in Absalom with his long golden lockes and in the wisedome of Achitophel the wise counsailour yet say you with Dauid thou O Lord art my defender thou art my worship and the lifter vp of my head feare not their violence to hurt you in your bodies to harme you in your goodes Perswade your selues with Dauid that the Lord is your defender who hath cōpassed you round about and is as it were a shielde that doeth couer you on euery part it is he only that may and will compasse you about with glorie and honour it is hee that will thrust downe those prowde hypocrites from their seat and exalt his lowly and meeke Dauid in the mids of his miseries did thus comfort him selfe leaning to the prouidence of God looking for deliuerance from him appointing God no time but cōmitting the whole matter vnto his wisedome and goodnesse He layed him selfe to sleepe rose againe was not afrayed for innumerable people that set him round about to haue destroyed him for the Lord wil sustaine me saieth this good king This was his shot anker here was his refuge herewith he comforted himselfe that the Lord would bee his defender and sauegarde and at the length restore him to his place againe He armed him selfe with the armour of God but aboue al he tooke to him the shield of faith wherewith he quenched the fyrie dartes of the wicked Hee had the helmet of saluation the sworde of the spirit the promises of God and buckled these fast vnto him selfe with this long and durable girdle of faithfull prayer and watching saying I wil crye vnto the Lord with my voyce and he will heare me from his holy hill If you will receiue comfort crye with Dauid vnto the Lorde exercise your faith in earnest and continual prayer say arise O Lord help me and he will smite your enemies on the cheekebone and brast all their teeth in sunder he will hang vp Absalom by his owne long heare Achitophel through desperation shall hange him selfe the bandes shal be broken you deliuered for this belongeth to the Lord to saue his frō their enemies to blesse his people Thus Dauid in the mids of his affliction did comfort him self trust to the only prouidence of his most mercifull God perswading himselfe both of his good will and mightie power whereby he should haue deliuerance and was not deceiued This blessing shall also be on you if that neglecting the wisdome of the worlde you submit your selues to the correctiō of God your heauenly Father faithfully crying him mercie patiently abiding his good will and pleasure FINIS The cause that mooued the Authour to wryte this Treatise Mat. 26.10 Rō 12.15 Eccle. 7.34 2. Sam. 1.12 Comforts some are temporall some eternall Temporal comforts 1. Tim. 5.23 Prou. 31.6 Meate drink c. Psal. 107.9 Kinsfolkes friends Psal. 69.8 A house or dwelling place Concord of brethrē Psal. 122.3 Psal. 133.1 Euerlastīg and heauenly comforts Reue. 4.4 Gods worde Rom. 15.4 Election in Christ Rom. 8.28 Paul. Rom. 8.37 Ioseph Gen. 37.24 Gen. 39.20 Gen. 45.4 5. Gen. 45.8 Dauid Three childrē in the fornace Daniel Dan. 6.16 c. 1 Cor. 10.13 Heb. 12.11 Christ This is since imprinted and called The viewe of the estate of man c. Philip 2.5.6.7.8 Act. 2.26 27. The applying of the former examples Heb. 12.8 Christs to●ments and afflictiōs Warrants out of the scriptures for our cōfort Mar. 7.29 Iohn 3.16 1. Iohn 1.4 Answeres to certain obiections cōcerning the want of things Cōpanie 1. Iohn 1.7 Worldly estimation Mariage Barennes Anna. Tob. 3.10 Sara Abraham An excellent comparison betwene the profite cōfort that the wife may haue of her husband and the same we haue of our head and husbād Christ Reuel 12. Rom. 8.32 Comforts against the contēpt of the world and sorow and heauines 1. Cor. 12. Reue. 21. Luk. 16.25 Ioh. 15.18 2. Tim. 2.11 12. Ioh. 15. Rom. 6. Ioh. 15. 1. Pet. 2. Rom. 8. Rom. 15. Ioh. 16. Math. 4. Matth. 9. 1. Pet. 5. Math. 6. Psal. 8. Psal. 37. Psal. 9. Math. 6. Psal. 50. Psal. 23. Mat. 10. Esa. 43. Rom. 8. Psal. 13.5 Mar. 9. Matth. 8. Psal. 2. Matth. 9. Ephe. 6. Philip. 4. 2. Cor. 4. Mat. 10. Rom. 8. Gen. 11. Gen. 12. Gen. 28. Gen. 46. 3. Reg. 19. Dan. 1. Gen. 45. 3. Reg. 17. 3. Reg. 19. Dan. 14. Rom. 8. Dan. 3. 2. Mach. 7. 1. Mach. 2. 2. Mach. 6. Ecclesiast hist lib. 6. cap. 4. Ecclesiast hist lib. 6. cap. 5. Eccle. hist li. 6. cap. 41 1. Iohn 5. Heb. 11. 2. Reg. 15. Psalm 3. 2. Reg. 15. Psalm 3. 2. Reg. 12. 2. Reg. 15. Exod. 7. Exod. 9. Rom. 9. Hebr. 11. 2. Cor. 4. Iohn 9. Rom. 8. Heb. 12. 3. Reg. 11. 3. Reg. 22. 4. Reg. 21. 4. Reg. 22. Mat. 15. Act. 8. Eusebius eccle hist li. 8. cap. 9. Ephe. 6.

one that sought his bloud And likewise Absolon that wicked childe vnnatural sonne with what a fatherly affection did he pitie his case crying whē he heard the certaintie of his death in such sort as is expressed in the 2. of Sam. 18. My sonne Absolon my sonne my sonne Absolon would God I had died for thee So verely ought our cases and calamities to be common and I especially haue iuste occasion to beare the burthen with you being vnto me a true Sister a Sister by naturall natiuitie a Sister by heauenly regeneration one with whome I haue enioyed the sweete and who with me hath not refused the sowre wherefore as I cannot but with brotherly affection be sorie for your sadnes so when I somewhat lift vp mine eyes toward heauen haue in consideration the infinite mercies and marueilous working of God our heauenly Father concerning his chosen children and sanctified Sainctes here on earth then me thinkes I receiue so plentifull ioye of spirit and prouision of patience against those stormes and tempestes of aduersities and afflictiōs which I know I haue in the way of my pilgrimage to passe and which I know by the course of Gods working abyde certainly for all true stedfast Christians that in vttering the same vnto you it may be I shall giue you some occasion of comfort God therefore I beseeche him guide my hand and direct my heart and so beholde you with his Fatherly eye and cherefull countenance that we may both receiue comfort of his holy Spirit the true cōforter promised by our Sauiour that we may reioyce one with another and both in the Lord. Now there are diuers meanes that God hath ordeined prouided for the cherishing and refreshing of heauie heartes and sorowful soules for some there are which are proper to the bodie as earthly and temporall other concerne the minde as Ghostly and continual which wheras they are to be had neither of them are to be refused forasmuch as God therein with our vse and commoditie looketh to reape the fruite of his owne glorie S. Paul alloweth Timothie and counselleth him for his weake stomaks sake moderately to drinke wyne and Salomon lykewise Giue the strōg drinke vnto him that is readie to perishe and wine vnto them that haue griefe of hearte Concerning these although they be somewhat besides my care yet this I may truely saye that you haue to thanke God with a most chereful spirit that he hath not left you so destitute in this behalf as he hath thousands of other our brethren Howe many are there not far from you if you list as I thinke you doe to beholde them and consider them with some comparison in respect of whom you must nedes cōfesse your selfe and happie handmaid of God as whose hope is their cōfort patience their pleasure their wine a cuppe of colde water and whom for their apparel necessitie alloweth no more then their bare naked skin how many poore Lazars are there that would be glad to gather vp the crummes vnder that table where your hand is free without grudging You say peraduenture sometimes in your fit I am a miserable woman But what may they saye that haue neither cloth nor clout to defend them from the bitter byting colde what may they say which many times haue neither bitte of bread neither droppe of drinke wherewith to satisfie the griedie worme of hunger or to quenche the drie disease of thirst How many are there which in comparison of you and me although peraduenture the leaste of xiiii who being driuen to the draffe of hogges may say with the prodigal sonne In how farre better case are the hired seruantes of that house then we seely soules are doutlesse hauing as we haue although we did get it hardly buye it dearely yet should we be in farre better state then a great number which by experience knowe what the want of those necessaries are which God of his gratious goodnes hath with a liberall hand bestowed on vs his euill deseruing seruantes and who for any thing to be sene in our selues deserue as euill and worse thē many of those nedy naked soules which at sundrie times faint for want of foode as the bare beastes stand open to all winde and weather subiect to all aduentures free from no aduersitie Dauid well considered these benefites of God which we because that we haue not felt the lacke of them make litle accompt of God satisfieth saith he the thirstie sottle and filleth the hungrie soule with good things and numbring diuers other the like benefites which Gods people dayly receiue at his hande hee crieth out twise or thryse with earnest zeale O that men woulde acknowledge before the Lord his louing kindnes and his wonderous workes before the sonnes of men Let vs likewise acknowledge the goodnes of God toward vs in this behalfe And me thinkes Sister if these outward earthly thinges may anie thing make in the matter you haue iust cause to reioyce Dauid you know complaineth often times that his familiars and kindred started from him in his aduersitie for beside the multitude of his enemies which as he maketh his accoūt were more then heares vpō his head he saith also I am become a stranger vnto my brethren euen an aliant vnto my mothers sons In another place he vttereth as a part of his griefe that he was bereft of his Father and Mother Concerning those pointes you are not so farre in as Dauid was you haue brethren you haue sisters I know that account your case their common case That God hath visited our Father I craue as great part of that plague as the best or the worst of you that God hath so preserued our Mother the mirrour of al mothers therein you haue as great part as the best of vs As for open enemies that seeke your hinderance or that reioyce at your aduersitie I know none you haue but you know your self a number of your friends that vnfainedly wishe your prosperitie Our Sauiour you may remember complained that the Foxes had holes where to couch them and the birdes of the aire haue their place of rest but the Sonne of man had not where to hide his head O that we could that we would compare our selues in our aduersities with our Sauiour the Sonne of man the verie Sonne of God of him to learne patience then no doubt but by him we should receiue comfort Cōsider therfore the goodnes of God how he hath prouided for vs by the gentlenes of our deare Mother a place which we vse as an home and habitation and that no Foxe hole but thankes be to God a warme and wel feathered neste where we haue free egresse and regresse This scripture was fulfilled in our Sauiour They of a mās owne house are his enemies and he thereof complaining saide He that eateth bread with mee hath lift vp his heele against me but thankes be vnto