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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18193	The lamentacion of a synner, made by ye most vertuous Ladie, Quene Caterin, bewayling the ignoraunce of her blind life: set furth and put in print at the instaunt desire of the righte gracious ladie Caterin duchesse of Suffolke, [and] the earnest requeste of the right honourable Lord, William Parre, Marquesse of North Hampton	Catharine Parr, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1512-1548.; Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.	1547 (1547)	STC 4827; ESTC S108944	34,896	122

worshipped in spirit and truthe Christ condemned all Hipocrisie and feyned holynes and taught sincere pure and true godlynes But we worse thē frantike or blind will not folowe Christes doctrine but trust to mennes doctrines iudgementes and sayinges which dimineth our eyes and so the blinde leadeth the blinde and both fal into the dyche Trulye in my simple and vnlearned iudgement no mannes doctrine is to be estemed or preferred lyke vnto Christes and the Apostles nor to be taught as a perfect and true doctrine but euen as it doth accorde and agree with the doctrine of the gospell But yet those that he called spiritual pastours although they be moste carnall as it doth very euidently plainlye appere by their fruites are so blynded with the loue of them selues and the worlde that they extoll mennes inuencions and doctrines before the doctrine of the gospel And whē they be not able to maynteyne their owne inuencions and doctrine with any iote of the scripture then they most cruellye persecute them that be contrary to y e same Be suche y e louers of Christ naye nay they be the louers of the wicked Mammō neither regardyng God nor his honor For fylthy lucre hath made them almoste mad but frantyke they be doubteles Is not this miserable state of spirituall men in the world muche to be lamēted of al good christiās But yet I cānot allow neyther prayse al kynd of lamētacion but suche as maye stande w t Christiā charitie Charitie suffereth long and is gentle enuyeth not vpbraydeth no man casteth frowardely no faultes in mēnes teath but referreth al thinges to god beyng angry without sinne reformyng others withoute their sclaunders carrieng euer a storehouse of mylde woordes to perce the stony herted menne I would all christians that like as they haue professed Christ would so endeuoure themselues to folowe him in godly lyuing For we haue not put on Christ to liue anye more to oure selues in the vanities delites and pleasures of the worlde and the flesshe suffrynge the concupiscence and carnalitie of the flesshe to haue his full swinge For we muste walke after the spirite and not after the fleshe for the spirite is spirituall and coueteth spirituall thinges and the flesshe carnall and desireth carnall thinges the menne regenerate by Christe disspise the worlde and all the vanities and pleasures therof They be no louers of themselues for they fele howe euill and infirme they be not beyng able to do any good thyng without the helpe of God from whome they knowlege all goodnes to procede They flatter not themselues with thinkyng euery thing whiche shyneth to the worlde to be good and holye for they knowe all externe outward workes be they neuer so glorious fayre to y e world may be doen of the euill aswell as of the good and therfore they haue in very litle estimacion the outewarde shewe of holynes because they be all spirituall castyng vp their eyes vpon heauēly thinges neyther lokyng nor regardynge the earthly thinges for they be to them vyle and abiect They haue also the simplicitie of the doue the policie of the Serpent for by simplicitie they haue a desire to do good to all men and to hurte no man no though they haue occasion geuen And by policie they gyue not nor minister anye iuste cause to anye man whereby their doctrine might be reproued They be not also as a reede shaken with euery wynde when they be blasted with the tempestes stormes of the world thē remaine they most firme stable and quiet feling in spirit that god as their best father doeth sende and suffer all thynges for theyr benefitte and commoditie Christe is to thē a rule a line an example of Christien life They be neuer offended at anye thyng althoughe occasion be ministred vnto them for like as Christ when Peter would haue withdrawē hym from death aunswered and sayde goe backe from me Sathan for thou offendest me that is asmuche as lieth in the thou gyuest me occasion with thy woordes to make me withdrawe my selfe from death althoughe I yelded not therto for this thy procuremente canne not extinguisshe the brennynge desier I haue to shead my blood for my chosen Euen so the perfect men are neuer offended at anye thyng For although the worlde were full of sinne they would not withdrawe themselues from doing of good nor waxe colde in the loue of the lorde And muche lesse they would be moued to be euyll yea rather they be so muche the more moued to do good The regenerated by Christ are neuer offended at the workes of god because they knowe by faythe that God doeth all thinges well And that he can not erre neyther for want of power nor by ygnoraūce nor malice for they knowe hym to be almightie and that he seeth all thynges and is moste habundauntlye good they see and feele in spirite that of that wyll moste highl●e perfect can not but proceade moste perfecte workes Likewise they be not offended at the workes of men for if they be good they are moued by them to take occasion to folowe them and to reknowledge the goodnes of god with geuing of thankes and praising his name dayly y e more but yf they be indifferent suche as maye be done with good and euill ententes they iudge the best parte thinking they may be doen to a good purpose and so they be edified but yf they be so euil that they canne not be taken in good parte by anye meanes yet they be not offended althoughe occasion be geuen nay rather they be edyfied in asmuche as they take occasion to be better althoughe the contrary be ministred vnto them Then begynne they to thinke and saye thus yf god had not preserued me with his grace I shoulde haue committed this sinne and worse O howe muche am I boūd to cōfesse and knowlege the goodnes of god They go also thinking and saying further He that hath synned maye be one of gods electe peraduenture the lord hath suffered him to fall to the entente he maye the better know himselfe I knowe he is one of them that Christ hath shead his bloude for and one of my christen brethren Truely I wyll admonyshe and rebuke hym and in case I fynde him desperate I wyll comforte hym and shewe hym the greate goodnes and mercye of God in Christ and with godly consolacions I will see yf I can lifte him vp And thus ye maye see howe y e men regenerated by Christe of euery thynge winne and receyue fruite And contrarye the younglinges and vnperfect are offended at small tryfles takyng euery thing in euyll parte grudging and murmuryng agaynste their neyghboure so muche the more as they shew them selues feruent in their so doyng they are iudged of the blynde worlde and of them selues