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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04866	A vievve of mans estate wherein the great mercie of God in mans free iustification by Christ, is very comfortably declared. By Andrewe Kingesmill. Diuided into chapters in such sorte as may best serue for the commoditie of the reader. Wherevnto is annexed a godly aduise giuen by the author touching mariage. Seene and allowed according to the order appointed.	Kingsmill, Andrew, 1538-1569.; Mills, Francis.	1574 (1574)	STC 15003; ESTC S108060	71,905	194

all as we are the children of Adam withoute the loue and the beloued son of god But now Christ is come what news bringeth he But God saith the Apostle which is rich in mercie through his greate loue wherewith he loued vs euen when we were deade by sinnes hath quickened vs togither in Christe by whose grace ye are saued and hathe raysed vs vp togither and made vs sit togither in the heauenly places in Christ Iesus O what is man that God should so loue him as thus to poure vpon vs the whole store and riches of his mercy and to bestow vpon vs his chiefe iewell his only begotten sonne and by him to exalt vs euē from the déepe hel to the high heauēs Surely God hathe maruellously shewed hys gracious goodnesse vpon the children of men but in this that he so loued the world as to giue vs hys son euē as the heauens the earth so dothe this farre surmount al the prosperity that any people al the felicitie that any mā at any time hath euer enioyed it was much that God blessed Abraham so as to gyue him the deaw of heauen the fat of the earth enriching him with great store of treasure and flocks of cattell but what was this to the blessed séede that blesseth all nations and Salomō in al his royaltie what was he but a lilie in the garden and a floure in the fielde but that he was assured of that promise made vnto hys father that vnto Dauid shuld be raysed a righteous branch and a king should reigne and sit vpon hys seate whome we should call the Lord our righteousnesse God as he had before the comming of our Messias chosen to hymself the Israelites a peculiar people whōe he tendered as the husbandman his vine so his hande wrought maruellously wyth them and bestowed innumerable benefits vpon them goodly and glorious were the frutes and floures that God caused to flourish in that vine but if we be braunches well graffed in the true vine then may Englande well compare with Israell For whatsoeuer they receiued otherwise we haue receiued as fully and wyth as large conditions in Christ the sonne of God they had but the figure more than we we haue the body and substance represented as well as they their 's was the shales but we haue parte in the kirnell they had the shadow aboue vs but we enioy the true sunne of righteousnesse equall with them there was a greate iubilie no doubt among the Israelites when that voice was firste heard on the mount Sinai I haue séene the affliction of my people whiche is in Egypt and I am come downe to deliuer them but what was this to the ioyfull tidings brought of the Aungell vnto you is borne in the Citie of Dauid a Sauioure and by another Aungell he shall saue his people from their sinnes Herein was loue as Sainte Iohn sayth farre in deede mighte that people séeme to be in the fauoure of God that he did so mightily by his seruante Moses deliuer them out of the hands of hardharted Pharao and that cruell countrie of Egypte But O Lorde what is man that thou so louest him as by the crosse of thy Christe to plucke him out of the bloudy clammes of that roring and rauening Lion Satan and to saue vs from that hote burning Egypte the fiery furnace of hell God made Moyses a maruell and a mirroure before his people but he neuer gaue hym thys commendation Thys is my beloued sonne Naye to which of the Angels said he at any time Thou arte my sonne this daye begat I thee yet thys beloued sonne whome the father maketh so much of is made our Moses to fulfill the lawe and our Messias to fill vs full of grace he hathe broughte vs out of all bondage it is he that hath led captiuitie captiue and nowe are we free in déede when the sonne hathe made vs frée Dauid refresheth hymselfe maruellously wyth the memorie of those benefytes of GOD whyche hée bestowed vpon hys people when they were nowe passing from Egypt toward the promised land wherefore he vttereth such sayings in hys psalmes and songs recording therin the goodnesse of God he deuided the Sea and led them through In the daye also he led them with the cloude This was theyr Baptisme vnder Moyses as Sainte Paule saythe Nowe if we be baptised in Christe Iesus with water and the holy Ghost then haue we drowned Pharao in the floud and haue buried vp Sathan safe in the Sea then are we couered and clothed with the true cloude so that the heate of hell may not hurt vs so saithe S. Paule All ye that are baptised into Christ haue put on Christ and so saithe S. Iohn of the water falling frō that cloude The bloud of Iesus Christe cleanseth vs from all sinne Dauid goeth forward and saith as he led them in the daye tyme with a cloud so he did all the nighte with a light of fire This was a great token that God was with them but this was but a shadow of him that saythe I am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not walke in darknesse but shall haue the lighte of life This is the lyght that is the lyfe of men this is the light that shineth in the darkenesse here hathe the Gentile gotten as muche as the Iewe for this is the true light that lighteth euery man that commeth into the world Againe saithe Dauid for the glory of the Iewe he claue the rocke in the wildernesse and gaue them drinke as of the great depthes but Paule saithe also for the comforte of the Gentile the rocke was Christe for out of the rocke rent on the crosse gushed out that plentifull aqua vitae whyche serueth to satisfie the thirst of euery soule that is it which shall wash away all our vncleannesse That although our sins were as crimsin they shall now be made white as snowe though they were red lyke Scarlet they shall be as wooll though they be rusty for sinne as those that haue lyen among pottes yet shall we be as the wings of a Doue that is couered with siluer and whose feathers are lyke vnto the yellowe golde Wherefore without this water was that nothing in comparison but as our Sauiour sayth in hys reasoning wyth the woman of Samaria concerning Iacobs well Whosoeuer shall drinke of thys water shall thirst agayne but who so drinketh of the water which I shall gyue him shall neuer thirst agayne and it shall be vnto him a well of water springing vp into eternall lyfe Another maruellous benefite of God doth Dauid glory in saying God opened the dores of heauen and rayned downe Manna vpon them for to eate and gaue them of the Wheat of heauen and so man did eate Aungels foode this was a sure token of Gods singular loue towardes them but this was but a shadowe to that which Christe bringeth with him for