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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

considerations to the Corinthes saying But we haue this treasure in earthen vessels that the power which excelleth might be of God and not of vs We are troubled on euery side yet are we not without shift we are in pouertie but not vtterly without somewhat we are persecuted but we are not forsaken we are oppressed neuerthelesse we perishe not But seeing we haue the same Spirit of faith according as it is writteng beleeued and therefore haue I spoken we also beleeue and therefore we speake For we knowe that he which raysed vp the Lord Iesus shall raise vs vp also by the meanes of Iesus Therefore we are not wearie but though our outwarde man be corrupt yet the inwarde man is renued day by day For our trouble which is but temporall and light worketh an exceeding and an eternall weight of glorie vnto vs What can Saint Paul speake more to the commendation of Gods prayse and glorie then that the excellencie of his mightie power is declared and aduaunced in this that his are troubled impouerished persecuted oppressed and yet in all these doe not perishe nor faint but ouercome by him who hath willed his in all their troubles to call vpon him and he will so deliuer them that his Name shall thereby be glorified and honoured And what greater profit can come to the Church then to haue the faith of Gods children so exercised that the inward man may be renued day by day and that as Christ entred into his glorie by troubles the crosse and death so also our troubles which are but short and light in respect of his may worke vnto vs an exceeding and eternall weight of glorie Both these two things S. Paul noteth in the generall afflictions of Christes Churche and also the Scripture teacheth the selfe same generall causes of the troubles of euery priuate member of Christ As our Sauiour Christ reporteth of the infirmitie of the borne blind man which was for this cause saieth he that the workes of God should be shewed on him And in like case when Christ heard tell that Lazarus was sicke he saide This sicknes is not to death but for the praise of God that the sōne of God might be praised there through This did much set forth the glorie of God in Christ that he was of power to rayse vp frō death a man which had bin in his graue huried 4. daies was so corrupted that he did stink And wherin doth the power of God more excedingly appeare to his glory thē in raising his church faithfull people frō the graue pit of troubles afflictions and many intolerable miseries wherin the worlde goeth about to treade them downe burie them Doth not Christ herein most marueilously set forth his glorie that when the world by motion of the deuil doth furiously fret rage against his faithful to roote out his word then it springeth florisheth most plentifully the faithful are fastened confirmed therin most vnfainedly boldly This hath God wrought in al ages in the fier of troubles afflictiōs trying his faithfull childrē for his own honours sake their profit as appeareth in the histories of the church frō the beginning And beside this that our faith is thus tried our patience proued our hope cōfirmed by these afflictions the faithful do receiue also diuers other cōmodities profites by troubles which are more necessarie to thē then either meate or drinke The worldly ones set more by their easy life here to serue their idle bellies thē by the necessarie profitable things to eternal life By troubles and afflictions the faithfull are made of like and semblable shape to the Image of Gods own Sōne Iesus Christ saith S. Paul If they suffer with Christ they shall liue with him in glorie Whom the Lord loueth him he chasteneth yea he scourgeth euery sonne whom he receiueth nourtereth vs to that which is profitable that we might receiue of his holines And to the Corinthians S. Paul saith that when we are afflicted we are chastened of the Lord that we should not be damned with the world Thus the scriptures do teach plainly also aboundantly that for these two considerations God doeth suffer his church to be afflicted and his owne people in this worlde to be exercised vnder the crosse which appeareth in all ages by the examples of all histories For behold the face of Gods church frō that good King Dauid vnto this our time you shal see what wonderful chaūges grieuous ouerthrowes his people haue suffred alwaies therefore should not maruell of this our chaunge in England After Dauid was anoynted King ouer Gods people the 2. booke of Samuel declareth with what troubles God did exercise him his whole kingdome during his time But he obserued the ordinances of the Lord and kept the true religion among his people according to the commandement of god After him Salomō hath gouernance of Gods people who in the beginning of his reigne walked after his Father Dauid did build Gods temple and obserued the true religion but that lasted but a while for in his latter yeres he fell to idolatrie and the seruice of false gods so that the true seruice of God began thē to be corrupted After him his sonne Roboam reigned at whose beginning that realme had such a miserable chaunge that it could neuer after recouer it self again for the kingdome was deuided and 10. tribes which were called afterward Israel fell from Roboam from the true religion vnto idolatrie false seruing of God so continued in false supersticious religion always hating the true seruice of God killing the Prophets that did teach the trueth the godly people that confessed the same many yeres and yet al that time perswaded them selues that they had the true seruice of God and that their doings did much please God yea the face of Gods Church was so blemished and brought to such a smal number of true professors that the Prophet Ely complaineth that there was not one left but he himselfe alone whose life also they sought after Consider well this historie and the working of God with his Church true religiō The Prophet Samuel had taught the people the true seruice of God the worthy king Dauid maintained the same all his time but with great difficultie Salomon his sonne a Prince of most wisdom and knowledge perfectly instructed in the wayes of the Lorde fell from God and corrupted Gods religion with the false seruices inuented by man so that the Lord was so offended therewith that he cutte of from the rule of his posteritie the most part of the kingdome for the tenne tribes were neuer after him vnder the gouernance of his succession neither did afterwarde walke in the feare of God but in Idolatrie and false religion till at the last God sent the Assyrians to inuade them in that wise that they ouercame them caried them forth of their owne

countrey dispersed them in many countreyes among the heathen sent straungers to inhabite their land and so vtterly destroyed that kingdom God defende the realme of England from the like punishment This was a fearfull iudgement of God where hee had but one smal kingdome in the whole worlde that bare the face of his Churche where his true honour was maintained and that so sodainly of twelue tribes ten should fal from God to idolatrie and false religion yea and the other also during all the time of Roboam and his sonne Abia after him so that during al this time there was not in the worlde any Churche or people where the syncere religion and pure word of God was receiued by publike authoritie and common order although God reserued always some that priuatly serued him and feared his Name faythfully who were alwayes so hated and punished by the Idolaters that their liues were bitter vnto them In those daies did the idolaters make the selfe same reasons arguments against the Prophets and their doctrine which your Idolaters doe make now against Gods people his true religion The faithfull then liued among those Idolaters with no lesse feare trouble and persecution then the Christians doe nowe in England The Prophets were then imprisoned driuen out of their countrey like seditious heretiks the causers of all euill as the true preachers now in England are partly imprisoned partly driuen out of the realme After the death of these wicked Kinges of Iehuda God visited his people with some light of the trueth by the meanes of Aza and King Iosaphat after him who restored although not perfectly the true religion bannished the false and destroyed the Altars of the Idolaters The which reformation was not done without great difficultie and trouble and continued but a small time in that same order For Ioram the sonne of Kinge Iosaphat ouerthrewe the true seruice of GOD condemned it and brought in the place thereof the superstitions and Idolatries of the Kinges of Israel and so the Churche continued neuer perfectly reformed but alwayes afflicted till the time of Ezechias For although Aza Iosaphat Ioaz Amazias Vzzias and Ioatham attempted a reformation and were indifferently good Kinges yet was not the Church cleansed of all the Idolatries and false counterfeit religion as it appeareth by the Prophets Ely Amos Esay Ozea Micha But the worthy King Ezechias in the first yere of his raigne began to reforme the religion brake downe and banished all Idols and Images hil altars and whatsoeuer was against Gods commaundement restoring Gods true religion after the rule of Gods worde The which thing as he brought to passe not without great troubles and difficulties so it continued in puritie but a litle time For his Sonne wicked Manasses who raigned after him put away and did forsake the true way and brought in againe all maner of Idolatrie and false religion and did grieuously punishe and persecute the faithfull people and true Prophets He shed saith the Scripture innocent bloud exceeding aboundantly In lyke maner did his sonne Ammon also who raigned after him This grieuous change remained thus vntil the good King Iosias made a newe and godly reformation which ought to bee a glasse to all Princes to beholde themselues in But this godly reformation of this good King did not continue for his sonne and al the Kings of Iehuda after him forsooke the wayes of God and restored againe the Idolatrie and false religion of their forefathers and so continued till God sent the King of Babylon to destroye their citie Temple and coūtrey Who also led them captiue into Babylon where they continued many yeres in great affliction as it appeareth by the Prophets Ieremie Daniel so that in fiue hundreth yeres and aboue in the dayes of all the Kinges of Iehuda Gods religion was set forth and receiued in publike order syncerely and perfectly and the contrarie vtterly banished abolished but only in the times of Dauid Ezechias and Iosias as Iesus the sonne of Sirach witnesseth saying all Kings except Dauid Ezechias and Iosias committed wickednes for euen the Kings of Iehuda also forsooke the lawes of god With what difficultie and troubles Gods religion and true seruice was restored after the returne of Gods people from Babylon and how short a time it continued in puritie what troubles and grieuous persecutions the true seruants of the Lord suffered it is partly set forth in Esdras and Nehemiah after in Hester then in the Machabees And although vnto the comming of Christ there was an outwarde face and beautifull shew of Gods religion among the Iewes yet was it so defaced and vtterly falsifyed with traditions of the Pharises who were that time in estimation that Christ himselfe doth testifie that their seruice was but vaine traditions of men and the commaundement of God was not obserued All that time there were no Prophets to instruct them in the right waye For immediatly after the captiuitie all prophecying ceassed in Israel Nowe peruse the historie of our Sauiour Christ in the foure Euangelistes and you shall perceiue in what state Christ founde his true religion what paines and trauaile he tooke to restore the true and syncere honouringe of God with howe great difficultie hee brought it to passe and at the last howe it cost hym his life After whose death the crueltie of them who would seeme to haue and maintaine the true honouring of GOD ceased not but stirred most vehement persecution against the true Churche of Christ and dispersed it thorowout all the worlde with what paines troubles and difficultie true Christianitie was planted and false religion put away S. Lucas partly mentioneth in the Actes of the Apostles who spent their liues in the buylding of Christ his Church After Christ his death the cruell tyrant Nero the Emperour did persecute the Church most cruelly after whose time the Church was in some quiet but not long for Domitian the Emperour did persecute Christ his Church to destroye his true religion most hainously Nerua his successour was friendly to the Christians Traiane after him a cruell persecutour and enemie and then Hadriane after whose tyme the Churche had rest for a whyle For shortly after the Christians that were in Asia and also in the West parties were cruelly disquieted Shortly after this tyme did England receyue the Christiā fayth and was the fyrst countrey of all the world that receiued the faith of Christ by publique authoritie Lucius beeing their first Christian King but the puritie of Christ his trueth did not long there cōtinue not much aboue an hundreth yeres Seuerus the Emperour wrought all the meanes that might be to destroy Christes Churche and to subuerte the true religion with most sharpe persecution after whose time there was some quiet but shortly after the cruel tyrant Maximinus did sore molest the faithfull and likewise after him Detius Gallus Hostilianus Lucius Valerianus Galienus graunted the Christians peace Aurelianus