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A11244	The pitifull estate of the time present A Christian consideration of the miseries of this time, with an exhortation to amendement of life: compiled by one zealous in the lawe of God, and set forth by publike autority, being perused and allowed by the same.	I. S., fl. 1564.; Stubbes, John, 1543-1591, attributed name.	1564 (1564)	STC 21504; ESTC S112130	22,439	64

the Papistes Wherfore O ye presumpteous priests that are of an hye stomack but farre from righteousnesse as yee haue bene terrible tyrauntes and your handes full of bloud so now put from you the violence and myschiefe of your mindes and as ye haue not ignorantlye but arrogantly fought againste the God of glory so call now to him for the assistaunce of his holy spirit that it may please him therewith to strengthen you agaynst your aduersary the diuell that hee no longer bewitche you nor wythdraw your mindes from God for now ye sayle stumble in your iudgement being ignoraunt as yong children Esay 28. and bycause yee wyll not hearken vnto the voyce of God pronounced by his chosen vessels hee suffereth you to be tangled snared and to fall backwardes in youre wylfulnesse 1. Peter 1. Leane therefore no longer vpon the weake staffe of antiquity which both you and many men ground themselues vpon doing as their fathers did for as well our Forefathers as also our selues haue done vnrighteouslye and haue not kept the way which the highest commaunded vs and therfore custome without truth is not alloweable but is an olde errour Pray thefore vnto the Lorde God to open your eyes that yee may spye out the wonderous things in the lawe of God Psalme 119 ★ Seke him with your whole heartes vnfaynedly that ye may walk in his wayes leauing the wicked and wylfull blindnesse wherein you haue so long bene nouseled and be no longer as Fooles that make good sport of Synne but foresee your wickednesse which as the Lorde according as the Scriptures make mention hath punnished in Princes being the highest and to whome he hath giuen the gouernement of his people so will he not surely leaue it vnrecōpenced in popish priests but aswel in priestes as in al people generally of what vocation or calling soeuer that repining the truthe of Iesus Christ and wilfully wallowing in wickednesse and sinne careleslye continue in the same he wyll hisite and for their rewarde giue them to drinke of his displeasure and heauy wrath Wherefore I asmuch as in mee is exhort you in the Lorde to become obediēt children ‡ and to retourne wyth the prodigall childe from your grosse feeding on swinecods and with hearty repentaunce meekely and humbly to tourne to your heauenlye Father Luke 25. feeding on hys heauenly worde that wee your brethren might reioice of the finding of you that were loste reuiuing of you that were dead 1. Peter 5. ‡ Submit therfore your selues in lo●●linesse of heart vnder the mighty hand of God and shewe your due obedience and bee subiecte to your most gracious and mercifull Prince be no more diuelishe wilfull but godly willing arme your selues I saye wyth singlenesse of heart as ministers to worke the will of our heauenlye Father not compelled but willinglye not wyth proude and lordely stomacks but meekely giuing good exāple to the flock of Iesu Christ of which as yee haue bene mercilesse sposlers destroyers and famishers so now thorowe the most gracious operation of the Almightye yee may become repairers feeders and nourishers of the same that when the chiefe shepehearde shall appeare ‡ hee may exalt you when the time is come 1. Peter 5. that then ye maye receiue an incorruptible crowne of glory which I besech God for his great mercy sake to graunt vnto you the ys may I saye become hys seruauntes and wyth ioy in him possesse the earth during his good pleasure and after thys lyfe to haue the fruitiō of the lyfe euerlasting Be therfore no longer the maysters of errour pussed vp wyth pride but the Disciples of truth shewe your selues no longer as brute beastes naturallye made to be destroyed whose heartes God hath so hardened for that yee shuld not hearken vnto his worde bicause he would haue you rooted from the earth But leaue in tyme your disobedience for disobedient children shall finde no rest wherefore if yee still presumptuouslye proceede as yee haue begonne ‡ knowe that presumptuousnesse goeth before distruction and after a proude stomacke there followeth a fall Prouer. 16. Deutro 17. Esay 5. for the Lorde abhorreth all suche as are of a proude stomacke and wyll not suffer them to escape vnpunnished ★ but will recompence them theire wyckednesse and destroye them in theire owne malice ‡ hycause they rebell against hym Psalme 94 Psalm 107. Therefore I saye once againe as one that from the bottome of my hearte wyshe your conuersion to GOD take heede and tempt the Lorde God no longer neyther presume to muche of the mercye of your Prince for yf ye doe surely God wyll in the ende put in hir Graces heart as most excellent ‡ euen sent of and by him Rom. 13. Wisdom 6 for the punnishement of the wicked and to the praise of the good to consider that as a Mother who being tender ouer hir Children with ouermuch cockering them doth but make them so wanton and carelesse that they regarde hir not and so sparing the rodde hurteth hir Children and harmeth hir selfe so likewyse that hir grace thorowe hir greate lenity and mercy in to long suffering you doth but make you the more forgetfull of youre dueties to your so gracious a Prince moue you the rather to worke your selues woe wyth practising of that that might be hurtful to hir highnes which the almighty god of Israel defend But yet is it to be feared and iust cause hath hir Maiestye to bee out of hope of youre conuersion to God and to haue you hir faythfull and true Subiects hereafter that in so long a tyme of respecte haue not hadde the grace to learne to feare God and to knowe your duties to hym and youre so gratious and mercyfull a Prince ‡ Iob sayth that if a tree bee cut downe Iob. 14. there is some hope sayth hee that it will sproute out and shoote forth the braunches againe and a roote being waxen olde and deade in the grounde yet when the stock getteth the cente of the water it will budde a newe bring forth bowes but howe long hath the Queenes Maiestye euen as a mother of mercye thorow hir gracious goodnesse and great lenitye made the tryall hereof in you reseruing and watering you all this while with hir mercye to trye thereby if shee could cause you to bring forth the florishing braūches and beautifull buddes of repentaunte heartes thereby as well to benefite your selues as also others thorow the good example of your humblenesse who notwithstāding stubbornely continue the longer the worse shewing your selues therefore not to be of those trees or roote that Iob speaketh of but rather playnelye painting forthe yourselues in your perfecte colours and shewing your selues to be the same that certaynely yee are A graceles papist and a rotten roote one in effect euen rotten rootes voide of Godly sappe and into whome no inoysture of godly vnderstanding or knowledge can enter Wherefore