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A70635	A cloud of witnesses, or, The sufferers mirrour made up of the swanlike-songs, and other choice passages of several martyrs and confessors to the sixteenth century, in their treatises, speeches, letters, prayers, &c. in their prisons, or exiles, at the bar, or stake, &c. / collected out of the ecclesiastical histories of Eusebius, Fox, Fuller, Petrie, Scotland, and Mr. Samuel Ward's Life of faith in death, &c. and alphabetically disposed by T.M. ...	Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30.; Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30. Offer of farther help to suffering saints.; Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640.	1665 (1665)	Wing M330; Wing M332; ESTC R232057	171,145	273

was wonderfully preserved and was translated from that University after many miseries undergone both beyond Sea and in his own Land to another School namely to a more setled Discipline of affliction the Tower of London where as he remained a Patient in regard of the Persecution which he suffered so did he also the office of a Physician in prescribing to others Preparatives and Remedies in the like case To which end A. D. 1532. he employed his pen in writing those Treatises which now go under the name o● 〈◊〉 Pisces or the Book-Fish Concerning which the Author of the Preface thereunto observes See the preface to Vox Pisces or the Book-Fish that in some sort they ran the Fortune of the Author being held in captivity in the Sea and kept in Jonah's Prison the belly of a Fish being in danger there to be consumed as the Author was like to have perished in the Dungeon at Oxford by the noysome stinch of Fish The Wine therein offered saith the same Author is the purest juyce of a Grape of the Vine Christ-Jesus ●rod in the Wine-press of Persecution about an hundred years sinde It was found in the Maw of a Cod-fish in Cambridge Market 1626. and Printed 1627. Which being put in a Paper Vessel and formerly miscarrying by wrack in the transporting is now beyond expectation in a strange Living Vessel brought back again to Land no doubt to the end that it might after long lying hid in store be anew broached and dispersed abroad for the refreshing of many thirsty souls to whom it is like to taste not the worse but the better for the long lying in so salt a Cellar as is the bottom of the Sea wherein by all probability it hath been buried for many years Mr. Frith did not light his Candle at the Lamp of Mr. Calvin which then was not extant nor of great Luther who was then but in the beginning of his growth And yet saith the same Author How judicously is there shewn the use of the Cross among Christians to consist in the due preparation for it and constant patience under it How soundly are we taught that our Election and Justification are of Gods meer mercy and not for any thing foreseen in us That remission of sins is through Christ onely That no man can merit for others That true Believers do sin yet fall not away utterly from Christ As the Work commends the Author so the Author much more the Work When he wrote of the Cross he fought valiantly under the Cross he turned his words of patience into the perfect work of patience He had the like happiness to that of St. Paul to bring forth children unto Christ in his bands Whilst he was kept close Prisoner in the Tower by his Letters and Treatises he gained many souls to Christ and among others which is most observable he converted one Rastal to the Truth who had formerly dipped his Pen in Gall and wrote most bitterly against the Truth of the Gospel and against the Writings of this Prisoner of Christ then in bands for the Gospel Like a Swan he sang most sweetly before his death and foretold both particularly his own Martyrdome and the propagation of the Gospel through all England within twenty years after his death which accordingly came to pass in the Reign of King Edward He was as it were a Primrose in the new Spring of the Gospel And though he wrote in the twilight between the night of Popery and the day of Reformation yet God so enlightned him that his Treatise of the Sacrament was the Candle at which that great Torch Archbishop Cranmer was lighted as Mr. Fox reporteth That is the true Cross saith Mr. A Prep to the Cross pag. 7 8. Frith in his Treatise called A Preparation to the Cross which God doth lay upon us For the Word of God to suffer all scorns mocks lyes and persecutions and not to fear the most cruel yea even the most shameful death That we may be prepared to bear the true Cross Pag. 13. we must consider that no calamity falleth on us by fortune or chance but by the counsel and appointment of God Pag. 16. See also c. 13. of the Prep l. 1. as witnesseth the holy Scripture It is undoubtedly no small comsort to be assured that the Cross is of God and that we are chastened of God and not of the Devil or of any wicked man who utterly can have no power upon us not so much as to move one hair of our head beside the will of the Lord. But it is not enough to consider that we are afflicted through the counsel and will of God A Prepar pa. 27 28. but must moreover mark the cause and intent of his godly will for reason judgeth that we are punished to the end to be hurt or destroyed c. but we must forsake Reason and cleave to the Word of God which teacheth that we suffer affliction to our health and salvation for afflictions are not signs of wrath displeasure but of grace favour This is no small comfort to them that bear the Cross Pag. 33. that they are not punished of the Lord to their hurt or destruction but to their health and salvation that their afflictions poverty c. are not signs of Gods wrath but instruments by which God is glorified When God doth afflict his people for their sins he doth not therefore afflict them Pag. 40. that by their afflictions they should satisfie for their sins for the passion and suffering of Jesus Christ is the ransome and expiation of our sins but that by affliction he may bring sinners to repentance When a Christian seeth himself forsaken of all men Pag. 41 42 43. he must pray and not cease to pray but pray in faith mistrusting nothing Psal 49. God calleth Invocation or crying on him in trouble a Sacrifice the true ●nd most acceptable honour So likewise he ●alleth the Hope whereby we tarry his help in af●liction Sacrifice Psal 4. Sacrifice you the sacrifice of Ju●tice and hope ye in the Lord q. d. that Hope is 〈◊〉 Sacrifice whereby we yield justice to God that ●seeing he hath so promised he will pluck us out ●nd deliver us Pag. 59 60 c. for so much as he is righteous and ●ue Of patience to God-ward springeth forth patience toward men for when the heart is at peace with God it tarrieth help of him and utterly setteth aside lust to revenge Our reason is therefore troubled vexed in persecution Pag. 66 67 c. because it thinketh that we are afflicted because God either hateth us or doth not regard us neither will help us These false opinions God plucketh from us and teacheth us that we are afflicted not because he hateth us but because he will either amend us or when we be amended continue us so And that in our affliction he will help us and