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A09649	A comfortable treatise vpon the latter part of the fourth chapiter of the first Epistle of Saint Peter, from the twelfe verse to the ende. By O. Pigge. Seene and alowed; Comfortable treatise upon the latter part of the fourth chapiter of the first Epistle of Saint Peter, from the twelfe verse to the ende.	Pigg, Oliver, b. ca. 1551.; Fielde, John, d. 1588.	1582 (1582)	STC 19915; ESTC S106422	38,659	87

destruction of their bodies committed their spirites into the handes of God In whome they beleeued that he was faithful able to keepe safe whatsoeuer was commended vnto him whose steppes if we doe follow according to the doctrine of the apostle in this place then although our bodies be turned into dust whēce they came beeing racked by Tyrants cast in prison burnt and the ashes throwne into riuers yet vnto oure soules they shall offer no violence but beeing committed into the handes of the Lorde shall returne to him that gaue them till the daye come when all our enemyes shall bee troaden vnder oure feete when the earthe and Sea rendering theire deade bodye and Soule shall meete together to bee crowned in token of victorye and with all the holye Angelles to take full possession of that glorious and immortall kingdome which nowe we hope for Where we shall followe the Lambe whersoeuer he goeth and sing prayses to him that hath redeemed vs for euer Whiche dayes the Lorde hasten that wee may be partakers of that happinesse euen for Iesus Christ his sake to whom with y e Father the holy ghost three persons one true and euerliuing God be all prayse honour power might and dominion now and for euermore Amen Amen Amen Apoc. 17. 14. These are they which came out of great tribulation haue washed their long robes and haue made their long robes white in the bloud of the Lambe 15 Therefore are they in the presence of the throne of God and serue him day and night in his Temple and he that sitteth on the throne will dwell amomg them 16 They shall hunger no more neither thirst any more neither shal the sunne light on them neither any heate 17 For the Lambe which is in the middes of the throne shall gouerne them and shall lead them vnto the liuely founteines of waters and God shal wipe away al teares from their eyes August de Donatist cap. 7. 8. In their late booke of english persecution Psa 129. ● Act. 14 22. Luk 14. 27. 28. 31. 32. Act. 17. 31. 2. Thes 1. 8. Heb. 11. 25. Math. 16. 24. Vers● 7. Mat. 7. 24. 25. Rom. 8. 38. 39. Mat. 26. 33. Ioh. 18. 10. Luk. 8. 13 1. Sam. 20. 1. 2 Iac. 1. 2. 3. 4. Gen. 41. 51. 2 Sam. 11. Isa 39. Amos. 3 6. 2. Sam. 16. 10. Psa 119. 67. 71 1. Sam. 23. 27 28. Rom. 8. 29. Math. 20. 22. Luk. 7. 34. 11. 15. Ioh. 8. 48. Math. 8. 34. Math. 14. 13. Ioh. 10. 39. 2. Sam. 11. 10. 11. Math. 5. 12. Num. 15. 25. Apoc. 20. 11. Apoc. 6. 16. Apoc. 7. 17. 2. Tim. 2 11. 12 Ephe. 6. 17. 1. Thes 5. 8. Math 25. 21. 1. Tim. 6. 1. cap. 4. 29. Gen. 21. 9. cap. 2. 23. 24. Luk. 6. 22. 23. ●uk 6. 26. 2. Cor. 6. 8. cap. 1. 28. cap. 1. 5. Mar. 3. 21. Math. 27. 43. Act. 2. 13. Act. 26. 24. Iohn 17. 4. Deu. 13 the whol chapt●r Math. 5. 1● Ioh. 10. 12. Isai 56. 11. Luk. 23. 43. Apoc. 14. 13. 2. Tim. 1. 12. 2. Sam. 6. 20. 21. 22. Gen. 41. 42. Hester 6. Gal. 6. 17. Act. 5. 41. Phil 1. 29. Deut. 27. 26. Rom. 6. 23. 1. Ioh. 1. 10. 1. Tim. 3. 15. Heb. 3. 6. Exod. 25. 40. Heb. 3. 5. Heb. 3. 16. Isa 2. 6. 1. Thes 4. 4. 1. Cor. 6. 19. Cap 9 12. Cap. 25. 29. 1. Cor. 11. 3● Amos. 3. 1. 2. Iob. 21. 14. 14. 1. Cor. 15. 19. Phil. 2. 12. ● Cor. 5. 1. Psal 79. 12. Isai 10. 12. Isai 33. ● Ier. 25. Gen. 15. 13. 14 1. Sam. 31. 4. 1. Mac. 6. 2. 9. read the chapters Act. 12. 2. Thes 1. 6. 7. ● Thes 1. 8. Psal 1. 1. Luk 7. 39. Ioh. 9. 31. Rom. 8. 33. 34 Luk. 11. 28. Apoc. 14. 13. Act. 14. 22. Psa 34. 19. 2. Tim. 3. 12. Gen. 18. 25. 2. Thes 1. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Gen 12. 10. 11. 21. 25. 22. ● Gen. 27. 42. 28. 11. Gen. 29. 20. 27 Cap. 30. 14. 15. 31. 1. 41. 34. 1. 25. Gen. 35. 12 37. 32. Gen. 42. ● Ier. 3● Acts and 〈◊〉 nume●tes Luk. 16. Iob. 2. 8. 9. Iob. 7. Iob. 1. 12. 26. Luc. 8. 30. 32. Luk. 127. Ier. 25. 9. Luk. 16. 25. Act. 4. 28. Isa 10. 5. 8. Isa 49. 15. Gal. 4. 6. Heb. 12. 11. Rom. 8. 28. Luke 23. 46. Act. 7. 59. 60. 2. Tim. 1. 12. Eccle. 12. 7. Apoc. 2. 26. 27 Apoc. 20. 13. Apoc. 14. 4.

troubles insomuche as in respecte of it they shoulde seeme easy and nothing vnto vs. And this may bee the reason why hope is compared to an Helmet because as men hauing a good Helmette vppon their heades doe not feele anye smarte by verye greate blowes giuen there so the hope of eternall life shoulde cause vs not to feele as it were the afflictions of this present We see the husbandman how he comforteth him selfe in all his paynfull trauell about manuring tilling sowing and weeding his grounde onely with the hope of recompence a good while after in the haruest time And the souldier setteth light by the cold in winter the heate in somner his lying vppon the ground his hunger his grosse diet and his woundes because he hath an eye to the end of the battel the victory the spoil the praise of his capteyne the return into his country with honour Now what is all the pelfe of this earth beeing compared with the kingdome of God what is the vic●ory againste men in respect of the triumph against sinne and Sathan and what is the spoile of tents to the ritches of heauen and what is the prayse of men to the commendation of of the Lorde saying vnto vs O good and faithful seruant enter into the ioy of thy master seing therfore al these things shall come vnto vs if we patiently suffer afflictions for wel doing there is good reason why we should embrace the counsell of the Apostle and in our greatest miseries reioyce our selues in the hope of that glory that in the worlde to come shall be powred vpon vs. It followeth If you be railed vppon in the name of Christ c. By y e name of Christ he vnderstandeth the doctrine of Christ as S. Paule in y e same speech expoundeth the meaning of y e holy ghost in another place Where name and doctrine b●ing mentioned the latter is set downe as the interpretaion of the first There is good reason of the speach because as the name of euery thing declareth what the thing is so the doctrine of Christ doth set forth and as it were painte him out vnto vs. Saint Peter here speaketh of one particular kinde of persecution consisting in euill and opprobrious wordes whiche although worldly men think no great matter so long as they proceede not to imprisonment fire and sworde yet the spirit of God in this place giueth it no better title agreeing with saint Paul in his epistle to the Galathians wheras it is apparāt in y e history that Isaack was but mocked of Ismael If therfore thou wilt not be counted a persecuter secuter of the church and seruants of God looke well to thy toung that it spue forth no taunting nor reprochfull words against the professors of the trueth if thou doe the sentence against them is penned already thou art branded in the cheeke with the note of a persecuter And how odious this thing is in the sight of God how slenderly soeuer thou account of it may appeare in the hystory that we reade of in the seconde booke of the Kings Two and forty little children were miraculously destrOyed with Beares for mocking the Prophet of God calling him baldhead and thinkest thou to escape vengeance if thou be a rayler vpon the seruants of God the extraordinarye punishment after so strange a manner vpon yong children that might seeme to offend rather of wantonnesse then vpon any set purpose declareth howe the Lorde misliketh of the like dealings by such as be of riper yeers whose fault must needs be y e greter The instructiō is profitable against the mockers at all times Now the apostle seemeth to speake of this kind of crosse rather then any other because it doth inseperably alwaies waite vpon the profession of y e gospel insomuch as in y e gretest peace liberty of the church it is not free from y e same For euen in those kingdomes where the trueth is receiued by the prince established by lawes so as open tirranie is restrained yet no man in any calling or conditiō can walke vprightly before the Lord but he offreth himselfe to harde speaches checks taunts reproches The practise of our owne time proueth it wherin pestelent toungs of professed popish enimies powre out their vennom by giuing y e sound professors of religion the loyall subiects to her maiestie y e names of prescisians puritans hot of the spirit familie of loue disobedient subiects confounding names multiplying their scoffes not knowing y e good faithful protestants are as farre from these heresies as they are from truth or honesty seeing therefore it is a thing y t doth ordinarily fall out y e holy ghost in this place prouideth wel for our infirmity in ministring vnto vs so great comfort against the same You are blessed saith Peter if you be rayled vpon for the name of Christ according to that speach of our Lord Blessed shall you be when men hate you and separate you and rayle vpon you and put out your 〈◊〉 as euil for the sonne of mans sake Reioyce and be glad in that day for behold great is your reward in heauen A naturall man whose iudgement is corrupt seeth notblessednes in this condition neither can he possibly conceiue how we should be happy in the middest of the shame and reproches which happen vnto vs when we be mocked and tannted for righteousnes sake Nay he is of an opinion clean contrary imagining those to be happie of whom all men speake well and therefore he laboreth to keepe an euen hande and to displease neither side whereas Christ sayth woe vnto you when all men speake well of you Thus the naturall man being led by his owne reason and sense pronounceth them accursed whome the Lord doth blesse them blessed whom the Lorde doth curse But let it suffize vs that he hath spoken it which is holy true let vs patiently wait for the performaunce of his promise And seeing he saith that we be happy notwithstanding all the railings and speakings against of our enemies let vs according to the sayings of the Apostle through honoure and dish●●●●r thorough good report and euill rep●●● 〈◊〉 forward to finish the worke whereunto he hath called vs. It followeth For the spirite of glory and of God resteth vpon you Lest the Apostle should seeme to affirme any thing without good proof here h●e rendreth a reason of that which hee had saide before namely that it cannot otherwise be but such are happie that be railed vppon for the name of Christ because the spirit of glory of God resteth vpon them His meaning is that it is a most certeine euidence and demonstration of the spirit of God which is always accompanied w t glory dwelling within vs when we patiently indure persecutions for the words sake holde on our scincere profession notwithstanding all the mockings of our enemies It may

not spoyled and doest wickedlye and they did not wickedly againste thee when thou shalt cease to spoyle thou shalt bee spoyled when thou shalte make an end of doing wickedly they shall do wickedly agaynste thee With these testimonyes agreeth that of Ieremy which he prophesied agaynste the Babilonians after that the People of God shoulde haue beene with them in bondage 70. yeares I beginne to plague the Cytye saythe the Lorde where my name is called vppon and shoulde you goe free You shall not goe quit And howe truelye these Prophesies agaynste the Assirians and Babylonians were accomp●ished may appeare to all those that reade the Scriptures of the olde Testament To the same purpose mighte bee alleadged that whiche God long before colde Abraham concerning the bondage of Israel in Egypt their wonderfull deliuerance from thence and the destruction of Pharaoh and his people So it came to passe with Saule when hee had a long time afflicted Dauid with Haman when hee had obteyned that murdering decree against the Iewes and with Antiochus the tyrants when for a time they had blasphemed the God of heauen ouerthrowen his true worshippe and killed his people Saule slewe himselfe Haman his children were hanged vpō the gallows that he had set vp for Mordecai the first Antiochus dyed in great vexatiō of his mind the later so eaten with woormes that his most familiar friends coulde not abide him for stinke Of Henrie the second the father Charles the ninth the sonne kings of Fraunce the first when he had caused much blood to bee shed and lately before had saide that himselfe would see the burning of a noble Protestāt called Anduburgè had one of his own eyes first put out by Mountgomerie after a wonderfull manner running with him at a Iusting in sport and dyed in great wearinesse of his life by reason of his paine the tenth of August 1559. The other the son when hee had brought to passe that most strange massachre immediatly after the mariage of his Sister with the king of Nauarre and had sucked much blood of Gods seruants afterwardes dyed himselfe most miserably y e 30. of Maie 1574. it is writtē of him in y e french histories that he was sick of a bloody flixe and reported for a trueth that blood yssued from diuers partes of his body wher there were other natural yssues so as tossing and tumbling himselfe in his bed most fearefully horribly curssing and blaspheming the name of God euen vntill his last gaspe which also he had vsed to doe from his childehood he so ended his wretched life being at length filled with blood which he had before insaciably thirsted after Of the Cardinall of Loreine a chiefe practiser of mischiefe against Gods church who as the stories witnesse of him dyed in a frensie and when the prieste broughte oyle to annoynt him after their popishe order he thrust his hand into the dishe and all to be smeared the face of the priest with it So he dyed at Auineon 1574. The like might be said of Herode Stephen Gardiner in Englād others Such ferful ends c●me to diuers bloody persecuters as our owne countriman M. Fox reporteth And assure your selues O al you wicked of y e earth y ● same portiō abideth for you if you turn not to the Lord. Go to therfore mock on at the saints of God set your selues against his trueth persecute his seruants and proceed in all mischiefe and flatter your selues because God stayeth to punish the worlde smileth vpon you doubt you not but the day will come when you shall pay full dearely for it And we that suffer or shall suffer any thing at the handes of the vngodly let vs not be offended at our sufferings and their prosperity For it shal be a righteous thing with God to recompence trouble to those that trouble vs and to our selues rest if not in this world yet at the least when y e Lord Iesus shall again shew him selfe from heauen with his mighty Angelles And seeing the apostle sayth here that it must needes goe hard with them that obey not the gospell let vs not content our selues with a bare and naked profession of the trueth but whatsoeuer is taught and we know let vs take heede that we be obedient thereunto It followeth And if the righteous be scarcely saued where shall the vngodlye and sinner appeare By the righteous hee vnderstandeth suche as bee studious of righteousnesse and bee carefull to please God althoughe they bee not free from all sinne And by sinners hee meaneth not all manner of offendoures but suche as yeelde them selues to corruption and delight in wickednesse according as this woorde is vsed in other places of the Scripture Nowe the purpose of the Apostle in this sentence is the same with that in the ende of the laste Verse Hee confidentlye affirmeth that the wicked muste needes bee iudged with extreame seueritye sithe the hande of God is often times heauye vppon them that feare him This hardnes for y e righteous must not be vnderstood of the last iudgement as some would haue it as though they should not there acquite thems●lues without great difficulty and be saued without much ado Noe we see what saint Paul writeth touching this matter Who sayth he shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods chosen it is God that iustifieth who shall condemue it is Christe which is deade yea or rather whiche is risen agayne who is also at the right hand of God and maketh requestes also for vs. The summe of his speech is that there shall be none to accuse or to pronounce sentence against any of the elect of God and therefore their passage into glory at that time shall be moste easie Whereupon our sauiour Christe willeth vs that we looke vp and lift vp our heads for ioy whensoeuer there appeare any tokens of the approching of that day Which there were no great cause that we shoulde doe if such hardnesse were then to be endured as some haue imagined And howe should the saying of the sonne of God bee true blessed bee the deade that dye in the Lorde and they rest from their labours if newe labours were to be taken in hand at the last iudgement This difficulty therefore is to be vnderstoode of this life according also as the verb be saued in the present tense doth euidently shewe So as the Apostle his meaning is that the estate of the godly is so troublesome vpon the earth that they enter not into the kingdome of rest glory except first in the worlde they haue gone thorough infinite daungers and escaped as it were a thousand deathes Euen as the Apostles preached wheresoeuer they came exhorting the disciples to continue in the fayth affirming that they must thorough many afflictions enter into the kingdome of God and as Dauid saythe Greate are the troubles of the righteous and as