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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19420	The mirror of martyrs in a short vieuu lively expressing the force of their faith, the feruency of their loue, the wisedome of their sayings, the patience of their suffrings, etc. : with their prayers and preparation for their last farevvell : whereunto is added two godly letters written by M. Bradford, full of sweet consolation for such as are afflicted in conscience.	Cotton, Clement.; Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.	1613 (1613)	STC 5848; ESTC S756	48,602	243

certaine all the haires of your head are numbred Be certain your good Father hath appointed your bounds over which the devill dare not looke Commit your selfe to him hee is hath been and will bee your keeper Let Christ be your marke and scope to prick at Let him be your patterne to worke by Let him be your ensample to follow giue him as your heart so your hand as your mind so your tongue as your Faith so your feet And let his word be your Candle to goe before you in al matters of Religion Blessed is he that Walketh not to these Popish praiers nor standeth at them nor sitteth at them glorifie God both in soule and body ¶ Fifteene short sentences left by Robert Smith Martyr to ANNE SMITH his wife 1 SEEke first to loue God deere wife with your whole heart and then it shall be easie for you to loue your neighbour 2 Be friendly to all creatures but especially to your owne Soule 3 Be alwaies an enemie to the Deuill the world but chiefely to your owne flesh 4 In hearing of good things ioyne the eares of your head and heart together 5 Seeke vnitie and quietnesse with all men but specially with your conscience for it will not easily be pacified 6 Loue all men but specially your enemies 7 Hate the sinnes that are past but especially those to come 8 Be as ready to further your enemie as hee is to hinder you that yee may bee the child of God 9 Defile not that which Christ hath cleansed least his blood bee layd to your charge 10 Remember that god hath hedged in your tongue with the teeth and lippes that it might speake vnder correction 11 Be ready at all times to looke to your brothers eye but especially to your owne eye For he that warneth an other of that hee himselfe is faultie giueth his neighbour the cleere Wine and himselfe the dregges 12 Beware of riches and worldly honor for without vnderstanding prayer and fasting it is a snare like to consuming fier of which if a man take a little it will warme him but if too much it will consume him 13 Shew mercie to the Saints for Christs sake Christ shall reward you for the Saints sake 14 Among all other prisoners visit your owne Soule for it is inclosed in a perillous prison 15 If you loue GOD hate euill c. Your Husband RO SMITH If yee will meet with me againe Forsake not Christ for any paine CERTAINE deuout Prayers which some of the godly Martyrs made at the hower of their death ¶ The Prayer which M r. HOOPER Bishop of Glocester made at his death LORD sayd he I am Hell but thou art Heaven I am swill and a sincke of sinne but thou art a gracious GOD and a merciful Saviour and Redeemer Haue mercie therefore vppon me most miserable and wretched offender after thy great mercie and according to thine jnestimable goodnes thou art assended into Heaven receiue me Hell to be partaker of thy joyes where thou sittest in equall glory with the Father For well thou knowest Lord wherefore I am come hither to suffer and why the wicked doe persecute this thy poore seruant not for my sinnes and transgressions committed against thee but because I will not allow of their wicked doings to the contaminating of thy blood and to the deniall of the knowledge of thy truth wherwith it did please thee by thy holy spirit to jnstruct mee the which with as much diligence as a poore wretch might being called thereto I haue set forth to thy glory And well thou seest my Lord God what terrible paynes and cruel torments be here prepared for thy poore Creature such Lord as without thy strength none is able to beare or patiently to passe But all things that are jmpossible with man with thee are possible Therefore strengthen me of thy goodnesse that in the fire I breake not the bounds of patience or else asswage the terrour of the paines as shall seeme most to thy glory Heere the party who heard thus much of his prayer beeing espied of the Maior was commaunded away and could be suffred to heare no more ¶ The Prayer of Doctor CRANMER Archbishop of Canterburie when it was thought he would haue made his Recantation O Father of Heauen O Sonne of GOD redeemer of the world O holy Ghost three persons and one GOD haue mercy vppon me most wretched Caytiffe and miserable sinner I haue offended both against Heauen and Earth more then my tongue can expresse Whether then may I goe or whether should I flee To heauen I am ashamed to lift vppe mine eyes and in Earth I find no place of refuge or succour To thee therefore o Lord do I runne to thee do I humble my selfe saying O Lord my GOD my sinnes be great but yet haue Mercie vppon mee for thy great Mercie The great mistery that God became man was not wroght for small or few offences Thou didst not giue thy Sonne O Heauenly Father vnto death for little sinnes onely but for all the greatest sinnes of the world so that the sinner returne to thee with his whole heart as I doe heere at this present Wherfore haue mercie vppon mee ô GOD whose property it is always to haue mercie haue mercie vpon mee ô Lord for thy great mercie I craue nothing for mine owne merits but for thy names sake that it may be hallowed thereby and for thy deere Sonne Iesus Christs sake And now therefore O our Father c. His repentance for subscription vttered a little before his death And now I come to the great thing that so much troubleth my conscience more then any thing that ever I did or sayd in my whole life and that is the setting abroad of a writing contrarie to the truth which now I heere renownce refuse as things written with my hand contrary to the truth which I thought in mine heart and written for feare of death and to saue life if it might be and that is all such bils and papers which I haue written or signed with mine hand since my degradatiō wherein I haue written many things vntrue And for as much as my hand offeded in writing cōtrary to my heart mine hand shal be punished therefore for may I come to the fire it shall first be burned which accordingly he did For being at the stake whē the fire began to flame hee put his right hand vnto it which hee held so stedfast and jmmoueable saving that once with the same hand hee wiped his face that all men might see his hand burned before it touched his body ¶ The Prayer of Steven Knight made vppon his knees at his death O Lord Iesus Christ for whose loue I willingly leaue this life and desire rather the bitter death of the Crosse with the losse of all earthly things then to abide the blaspheaming of thy most holy name or to obay men in breaking thy holy Commandemēt Thou seest oh

hath given you he open your eyes to see what how great benefits you receiued that you may be lesse covetous or rather jmpatient for so I feare me it should be called and more thankfull Haue you not receiued at his hands sight to see your blindnes and thereto a desirous and seeking heart to see where he lyeth in the midde day as his deare Spouse speaketh of her selfe in the Canticles Ah Ioyce my good Ioyce what a guift is this many haue some sight but none this sighing none this sobbing none this seeking which you haue I know but such as hee hath married to himselfe in his eternall sweet mercies You are not content with the Magdalen to kisse his feet but you wold with Moses see his face forgetting how he biddeth vs seeke his face Psalme 27. yea and that euer more Psa. 105. which signifieth no such sight as you desire to haue in this life who would see God now face to face whereas he cannot be seen but covered vnder some thing yea somthing which is as you would say cleane contrary to God as to see his mercie in his anger In bringing vs to Hell Faith seeth him bringing vs to Heaven in darkenesse it beholdeth brightnesse in hyding his face from vs it beholdeth his merry countenance How did Iob see God but you would say vnder Satans cloake For who cast the fire from Heaven vpon his goods who overthrew his house and stirred vppe men to take away his Cattle but Satan And yet Iob pierced thorough all these and sawe Gods working saying The Lord hath giuen the Lord hath taken c. In reading the Psalmes how often do you see that Dauid in the shaddowe of death saw Gods sweet loue And so my dearely beloued I see that you in your darknes dimnes by faith do see charity britnes by faith I say because faith is of things absent of things hoped for of things which I appeale to your owne conseience whether you desire not And can you desire any thing which you know not And is there of heauenly things any other true knoledge thē by faith Therfore my deare heart bee thankefull for before God I writte it you haue great cause Ah my Ioyce how happye is that state in which you are Verilie you are in the blessed state of gods deare children for they mourne and doe not you so and that not for worldly weale but for spirituall riches Fayth Hope and Charitie Do not you hunger and thirst for righteousnes And I pray you sayth not Christ happie are such How should GOD wipe away the teares from your eyes in heaven if on earth you shed no teares How could Heaven bee a place of rest if on Earth you did find it How could you desire to be at home if in your journey you found no griefe How could you so often call vpon God talke with him as I know you doe if your enemie should sleepe all the daye long How should you elsewhere bee made like vnto Christ I meane in joye if in sorrow you sobbed not with him If you will haue joye and felicity you must needs feele sorrow and misery If you will go to heaven you must saile by hell If you will imbrace Christ in his robes you must not thinke scorne of him in his ragges If you will sitte at Christs table in his Kingdome you must first abide with him in his temptations If you will drinke of his Cup of glorie forsake not his cup of jgnominie Can the head corner stone be reiected and the other more base stones in Gods building bee in this world set by you are one of his living stones in this building be content therfore to be hewen and snagged at that you may bee made more meet to be joyned to your fellowes which suffer with you Satans snatches and freats of the flesh wherethrough they are enforced to crie Oh wretches that wee are who shall deliuer vs you are of Gods corne feare not therefore the flayle the fanne milstone nor oven You are one of CHRISTS Lambs looke therefore to bee fleeced halled at and even slaine If you were a market sheepe you should goe in more fat pasture If you were for the faire you should be stalled and want no meate but because you are for GODS owne vse therfore you must pasture vppon the bare common abiding the stormes and tempests that will fall Happy twice happy are you my deare sister that God haleth you now whither you would not that you might come whither you would Suffer a little and be still Let Satan rage against you let the world crie out let your conscience accuse you let the law leade you and presse you downe yet shall they not prevaile for Christ is Emanuell that is GOD with vs. If God be with vs who canne bee against vs. The Lord is with you your Father cannot forget you your spouse loveth you If the waues and surges arise crie with Peter saue Lord I perish and hee will put out his hand and helpe you Cast out your ankor of Hope and it will not cease for al the stormie surges till it take hold on the rocke of Gods truth and mercie Thinke not that hee which hath given you so many things corporally as jnductions of spirituall heavenly mercies and that without your deserts or desire can deny you any spirituall thing desiring it For if he hath given you to desire hee will giue you to haue and enioy the thing desired The desire to haue and the going about to aske ought to certifie your conscience that they bee his earnests of the things which you asking hee will giue you yea before you aske and whilst you are about to aske hee will grant the same as Isaiah saith to his glorie and your eternal consolation He that spared not his owne Son for you will not nor cannot think any thing too good for you my heartely beloved If he had not chosen you as certainly he hath he would not thus haue called you hee would never haue justified you hee would never haue so glorified you with his gratious gifts which I know to be in you praysed be his name therefore hee would never haue so exercised your faith with temptations as he hath done and doth if I say hee had not chosen you If hee haue chosen you as doubtlesse deere hart he hath don in Christ for in you I haue seene his earnest and to me you could not deny it I know both where and when if I say hee haue chosen you then neither can you nor ever shall you perish For if you fall hee putteth vnder his hand you shall not lie still so carefull is Christ your keeper over you Never was Mother so mindfull over her child as he is over you And hath hee not alwaies been so Speake woman when did he finally forget you And will he now trow ye in your most need doe otherwise you calling vpon him and desiring to

please him Ah my Ioyce thinke you God to bee mutable Is hee a changeling Doth not he loue to the end thē whom hee loveth Are not his gifts and calling such as he cannot repent him off thē for els were he no God If you should perish then wanted hee power For I am certain his will towards you is not to bee doubted off Hath not the spirit which is the spirit of truth told you so And will you hearken with Eue to the liing Spirit which would haue you to despaire God forbid it for to doubt and stand in a māmering would cause you that you should never truely loue God but ever serue him of a servile feare least hee should cast you off for your vnworthinesse and vnthankfulnesse as though your thankfulnes or worthines were any causes with God why hee hath chosen you or will finally keepe you Ah my owne deare heart Christ onely Christ onely and his mercie and truth In him is the cause of your election This Christ this Mercie this Truth of God remaineth for euer is certaine for euer I say for euer If an Angell from Heaven should tell you contrarie accursed bee he Your thankefulnes and worthinesse are fruits and effects of your election they are no causes These fruites and effects shall be so much the more fruitfull and effectuall by how much the more you wauer not Therefore dearely beloved arise and remember from whence you are fallen You haue a Sheapeheard who neither slumbereth nor sleepeth night nor day No Man nor Deuill can pull you out of his hands Night and day hee commandeth his Angells to keepe you Haue you forgotten what I read to you out of the Psalme The Lord is my Sheepheard I can want nothing Doe you know that GOD sparred Noah into the Arke on the one side so that hee could not get out So hath hee done to you my good Sister so hath hee done to you Tenne Thousand shall fall on your right hand two Thousand on your l●ft hand yet no euill shall touch you Say boldly therefore Many a time from my youth vppe haue they fought against mee but they haue not preuailed no nor neuer shall preuaile for the Lord is round about his people And who are the people of God but such as hope in him Happie are they that hope in the Lord and you are one of those my deare heart for I am sure you haue hoped in the Lord I haue your wordes to shewe most manifestly I know they were written vnfainedly I need not say that euen before God you haue simply confessed to mee and that oftentimes no lesse And if once you had this hope as you doubtles had it thogh now ye fele it not yet shall ye feele it againe for the anger of God lasteth but for a moment but his mercy lasteth for euer Tell mee my deare heart who hath so weakned you surely not a perswasion which came of him that called you For why should ye wauer Why should ye wauer be so heauie hearted whome looke yee on on your selfe on your worthines on your thankefulnesse on that which God requireth of you as Faith Hope Loue Feare Ioye c. Then can yee but wauer indeed for what haue you as God requireth Belieue you hope you loue you c. as much as ye should doe No no nor neuer can in this life Ah my dearely beloued haue you so soone forgotten that which should bee had in memory namely that when you should bee secure and quiet in conscience thē should your faith burst throghout all things not onely that you haue in you or else are in Heaven Earth or Hell vntill it come to Christ crucified and th' eternall sweet mercies of God and his goodnesse in Christ. Heere heere is the resting place heere is your Spouses bed Creepe into it and in your armes of faith embrace him bewaile your weakenesse your vnworthines your dissidence and you shall see he will turne to you What sayd I you shall see Nay I should haue said you shall feele he will turne to you You know that Moses when hee went into the Mount to talke with God hee entred into a darke cloud and Helias had his face couered when GOD passed by Both these deare friends of God heard God but they saw him not but you would bee preferred before them See now my deare heart how couetous you are Ah be thankefull be thankefull but God be praised your couetousnes is Moses couetousnes well with him you shall be satisfied but when Forsooth when hee shall appeare Heere is not the time of seeing but as it were in a glasse Isaak was deceived because hee was not content with hearing onely Therefore to make an end of these many words wherewith I feare me I do but hinder you from better exercises in as much as you are indeed the child of God elect in Christ before the beginning of all times in as much as you are given to the custody of Christ as one of GODS most precious jewels in as much as Christ is faithfull and hitherto and for euer hath and shal haue al power so that you shall never perish no one haire of your head shall not be lost I desire you I craue at your hands with all my very heart I aske of you with hand pen tongue mind in Christ through Christ for Christ for his names sake bloud mercies power and truths sake my most entirely beloued sister that you admit no doubting of gods final mercies towards you howsoeuer ynu feele your selfe but complaine to God and craue of him as of your tender Father all things and in that time which shal be most opportune you shall find feele farre aboue that your hart or the heart of any creature can conceiue to your eternall joy Amen Amen Amen The good spirit of God alwaies keep vs as his deere children he comfort you as I desire to be comforted my deerely beloved for evermore The peace of Christ dwell in both our harts for ever Amen Gods holy spirit alwaies comfort keepe you Amen Amen This 1. of Ianuarie by him that in the Lord wisheth to you as well and as much felicitie as to his owne heart IOHN BRADFORD FINIS A TABLE DIRECting to the names of the Martyrs and to the speciall matters that are mentioned in this Booke A Fol. Adam Damplip his speach to his keeper 27. Agnes Bongeor her complaint 80 81. She is comforted 83. Alice Bindon her straight handling 110 118. Anne Askew her prayer 170. B Bartlet Greene his description of temporall miseries c. 155 156 157. Bradbegges Wife shee commends her two children Patience and Charitie to the Bishop 76. C Fol. Cutbert Simpson Boner commends his patience 39. His comfortable vision 40. D Doctor Taylor Pag. 44. E Elizabeth Folks her answere pretily retorted 73 Eliza Yong her sweet speech 90 91. F Father Latimer 7 14 15. G George Wise-hart his speach to his executioner 58.