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A15701	The castell of Christians and fortresse of the faithfull beseiged, and defended, now almost sixe thowsand yeares. VVritten by Iohn VVolton, on e of the Cathederal Church in Exetor.	Woolton, John, 1535?-1594.	1577 (1577)	STC 25975; ESTC S103316	80,248	214

dymissed at the last with his passeport and wages returneth to his owne home and there enioyeth desired rest and quietnesse And so it fareth cōmonly with all other sorts of men that although theyr calling be full of trouble and calamitie yet it contineweth not so alwayes with them for ther taste of swéete and sower togeather but in this battayl against sathan ther is no peace no rest no quietnes but cōtinual Allarmers daūgerous assaultes geuen vnto man so long as he lyueth heere vpon earth Now sith the case so standeth it is no maruayle that so many reuolt frō true Christianitie and it is more marueylous that we al doo not fall perish amongst so many perylles daungers but we should take occasion hereby to be more vigelaunt carefull more déepely to consider our selues more dylligent to meete with the enemie and more earnestly to call vpon God Happy therefore are wee if wee fight manfully for then wee shall be crowned The Ethnickes were wont to saye Those that vvyll be blessed must labour for reuerende knovvledge lyeth not in a softe bedde On the other side those bee vnhappie that suffer them selues to bee ouercome that yeelde them selues captiues and preferre the myseries of this world before the ioyes of Heauen that resist not sinne but followe pleasure as their guide and soueraigne and so defying Heauen make a couenaunt with death and hell destroye and dampn● them selues Let vs learne then that we are not borne to ease and rest but to labor and trauell as the holy man Iob sayth Man is borne to labour as the byrde is to flye That we ought to trande in the fielde armed against our enemies As the Apostle exhorteth That vve shoulde fight a good fight keeping our faith and a good Conscience Let vs learne that our lyfe is short instable and fléeting being an ●ccasion to the wicked of eternall destrūcison so that it had bene better for them neuer to haue bene borne then to come to that wofull ende as our sauiour Christ speaketh of Iudas Let vs learne also that if we labour fight with the enemie God wyll geue vs victorie and a Crowne of eternall glorie and though in this conflicte our outwarde man perishe yet the inwarde man is renued daylye for our lyght affliction which is but for a moment causeth vnto vs a farre most excellent and an eternall weight of glorie whyle wee looke not on the thinges which are séene but vpon the thinges which are not séene for the things which are séen are temporall but the things which are not séene are eternall But O good Lorde fewe and small is that number if at least there be any at all that pondereth howe shorte and fleeting Mans lyfe is howe full of myseries how many and mightie enemies he hath howe sorrowfull the last daye shall be to the wicked and howe ioyfull to the blessed The promised rewardes in the lyfe to come and heauenly kingdome doo not styrre vp men to vertue neyther doeth the feare of endlesse formentes staye them from vices Such an amazed sencelesnesse hath euen possessed almost all mennes mindes that albeit they bee compassed and besieged with infinite daungers and enemies and haue death hanging euery moment ouer their heads yet they neuer consider the greatnesse of their daungers nor yet thinke of any remedy whereby this their heauie burden may be mitygated and cased But rather ●yke the wicked Théefe who hanging vpon the Crosse mocked Christe euen so moste part of men in this frayle lyfe being in the myddle of death doo with wicked securitie scoffe at godlinesse féeke after filthy pleasure as though all things were well and they them selues out of all Conne shotte They very much resemble those that are taken with the Phransye who neyther vnderstande the gréeuouse daunger of their discease neyther regarde the holsome counsayle of Phisicions euen so blynde and carelesse men repute sermons and communications of Gods wrath of the daye of doome of endles torments to be but vaine bugges and no better then olde wiues fables Hipocrates doeth accoumpte it an yll sygne in disceases if the minde be sicke and those soores are accoumpted of the Chirurgian moste daungerous that can féele neyther knife nor Coraziue euen so that misery and blyndnesse is the greatest when mans harte is harder then anye flynt and so without all sence that he considereth not any perryll or daunger Let vs then that haue any feare of God before our eyes abandon this deathfull dullnesse farre from vs let vs vnfould and in partycularites set before our eyes the infinit immensie and Desperate daungers wherevnto our lyfe is subiect by meanes of our mighty and most malycious enemy the deuyll and his Petycaptaynes and souldiers and afterwarde let vs examyne and finde out if we can some heroyecall and noble Prince who wyl be content to ioyn vs in leage and confederacy with him and receaue vs into his Tutele and protection Of the first I haue sayd somwhat before but as I sayde I meane to handle the same in his parts more specially ❧ Of the temptations and assaults of Sathan against man kinde handled more particularly Chap. 2. EXperience plainlye prooueth and euery mannes conscience wyll wytnesse vnto him that this lyfe is most myserable hauing in it no rest quietnesse nor contentation whyles euerie man is wearie of his condition and wisheth an exchaunge with his neyghbour The Prince and mightie man oppressed with endlesse cares and subiect to many daungerous downefalles wisheth himselfe a poore countrey man who hath commonly a quiet minde and with healthfull exercise of his boddy getteth his lyuing They sée oftentymes the highe mountaine stricken with lyghtnings and thunderboltes and the long Ashe tumbled downe with the great winde but the lowe valley and lyttle bushe to remaine vntouched The rytche Marchaunt in many perylles vpon the Sea by meanes of Pyrates of rockes flats sandes and in great stormes almoste sonken in the sourges wisheth himselfe a poore Coteger vpon the Lande with a smokie house a few acres of grounde and the poore Husbandman who styll toyleth in the myre to foster and cherish his séely familye is wearie of husbandrie and wisheth for a house in the Cittie full of costly wares and Marchaundise The honourable Lawier stricken with daungerous sicknesse accoumpteth the Physitions profession most excellent Againe the Phisition alwayes wrastling with disseases and as it were with death it selfe hauing sighing groning and gasping as a common Tune whether soeuer he is inuited accoumpteth the Lawiers lyfe more happie And to be shorte euerie one thinketh anothers condicion better then his owne and wisheth an exchaunge with his neyghbour But this vaine opinion is discouered by an earnest consideration and collation of one estate with another whereof one wryteth no lesse truely then finely after this manner I knowe right well that if all men woulde laye downe puylikely their priuate

who can and wyll delyuer vs if not corporally yet spiritually if not our body yet our soule For it was the same God that deliuered the thrée children out of the fierie fornace and suffered the Machabeis to bée consumed with fyre They singe in the fyre and these dye and yet hée was the same God of them both He delyuered them to confound the Idolles of Babilon and suffred the other to perish in their bodies that the paine and damnation of their persecutours might bée the greater It commeth to passe also sometyme that the godly and vngodly suffer in this worlde together but for diuerse respectes and endes They in the distruction of their bodies doo in a momente and spéedely lay aside the vncleanenesse of their fleshe and are so brought to euerlasting peace and reste but the other doo then but beginne to feele fearfull and endles torments of body and minde And that saying of Dauid hath place herein In the hande of the Lorde there is a cuppe and the wine is redde in it it is full myxt and he powreth out of the same As for the dregges thereof all the vngodlye of the earth shall drynke of them and sucke them out When therfore we stande in some perylles lyke braunches to be cutte of the body of the trée or lyke valiant souldiers to fall in the forefront of this battell let vs comforte our selues with the consideration of these things Let vs be assured that God can deliuer vs if he wyll but if he wyll not it is for great and weighty causes and the same tending to our owne best profite For hée eyther closeth our eyes with good King Iosias that we should not behold the wofull estate of our countrey and Church which shall ensue or else he taketh vs awaye in our best tyme least malyce and wickednesse should alter our harts and in the meane tyme hee maketh vs worthy vesselles to testifie his honour and glorie euen before most cruell tyrauntes and ryddeth vs shortlie out of temporall miserie to the ende we maye spéedelie passe into endlesse felicitie And if we geue our lyues vnto death for these thinges as the matter is most excellent and lawdable so is it not so terryble and fearefull to the mortified and spirituall man as fleshe and bloode woulde make vs beléeue For if the Heathen souldiours doo abyde a long and sharpe warfare eyther to defende their owne countrey or to enlarge their dominions shall we shrinke to passe the pykes to the ende wee maye keepe our faith and possesse those dominions that are most excellent and endlesse Codrus king of Athens vnderstoode by an Oracle that if hee were preserued his Countrey shoulde perishe hee therefore purposely procured his owne death and shall we sticke to giue our lyues for our heauenlie Ierusalem That noble Romane Marcus Curtius cast him selfe headlong into a bothomles lake for his Cittie and Countrey and shall we feare imprisonment and daungers temporall that we maye possesse Pallaces and lyberties eternall Shall Zopirus the Persian cause his seruaunts to whippe him to cutte off his noose his eares and lyppes and that so comming to Babilon he myght the more spéedily obtaine credite of them to haue some authoritie whereby hee might betraye and yéelde the Cittie otherwyse inuinsible vnto his Maister King Cyrus and shall Christyans faynt with lyke tormentes to purchase not for others but to rerayne and keepe that Cittie alreadye prouyded for them by Christe Surelie these thinges made Iob to exclame Albet he kyll mee yet wyll I trust in him And the Apostles departed from the counsayle reioysing that they were counted worthy to suffer rebuke for the name of Iesus And Saint Paule certyfied by Agabus the Prophet of the calamyties and miseries which he should suffer at Ierusalem and his case much bewayled by the Brethren aunswered VVhat doo you weeping and vexing my harte for I am not onely ready to be bounde but also to suffer death for the name of the Lorde Iesus So spake Ignasius in ●●ke case I am ready to abide the fire beastes sworde and crosse so that I may see Christ my sauiour who dyed for me And againe Let all paines and tormentes most exquisitly deuised by the diuell himselfe be executed vpon me alone so that I may haue the fellowship of Iesus Christ Fynallie the blessed and happye exchaunge of temporall paine into euerlasting ioye which the godlie shall possesse in the worlde to come ought to make them abide these short afflictions manfully whereof wee haue an euident example in the ritche man and Lazarus Abraham sayde to the ritche man Sonne remember that thou hast receyued vveale in thy life and Lazarus woe But nowe he is in ioye and th●● art in tormentes Our sauiour Christ also sayeth to his Apostles You shall vvepe and lament but the vvorld shall reioyce You shall be full of sorrow but your sorrowe shall be turned into love VVhen a vvoman traueileth shee hath paine bicause hir howre is come but vvhen she is deliuered she remembreth not hir paine bicause a man chylde is borne into the vvorlde And you novv shall haue sorrovve but I vvyll see you againe and your hart shall reioyce and your ioye shall no man take avvay from you Although there are no greater paynes then in Chyldeb●…th yet after delyueraunce the Mother for ioye of hir Chylde forgetteth all Euen so the godlie in this worlde ●…de wonderfull tormentes but after they haue passed this lyfe they neuer thinke of worldlie sorrowes by meanes of that vnspeakeable ioye of Heauen Which as yet the eye hath not séene the eare hath not hearde neyther hath it entered into the harte of man For our lyght affliction vvhich is but for a time causeth vnto vs a farre more excellent and an eternall waight of glorie Whereof he Apostle saint Peter wryteth thus VVe are regenerate to an inheritaunce immortall and vndefiled and that fadeth not away reserued in heauen for you The man of God nameth the celestiall inheritance immortall bicause it neuer fleeteth nor vanish away as the ioyes of this world doo Whether they be honour or ryches or power or friendshippe all these perish and decaye he calleth it vndefiled bicause it is voyde of all sorrowe heauinesse and sinne it is pure sincere and permanent he sayth also that it fadeth not away bicause there is no fulnesse nor wearinesse of it These ioyes are in a vision expressed more largelye in the Reuelation And after these I beheld and loe a great multitude vvhich no man could number c. stoode cloathed vvith long vvhite robes and palmes in their handes These are they which come out of great tribulation and haue vvashed their long robes and haue made their long robes vvhite in the blood of the Lambe Therefore are they in the presence of the throne of God and serue him day and night in his Temple