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A14464	An epistle to the faithfull necessary for all the children of God: especially in the s[o] dangerous dayes. Written by Maister Peter Viret in french, and englished by F.H. Esquier.; Epistre envoyée aux fidèles conversans entre les chrestiens papistiques. English	Viret, Pierre, 1511-1571.; F. H., Esquier.	1582 (1582)	STC 24779; ESTC S104301	66,070	144

to obey that the Lord commandeth vs by his Prophets Come out of Babylon flee from Esa 41. the Chaldeans depart ye goe out from thence touch no vncleane thing goe out of the middest of her be ye cleane ye that beare the vessels of the Lord flye out from the middest of Babylon Ier. 51. and deliuer euery man his soule Thinke wee that these exhortations are in vayne and that the holy Ghost biddeth so often to goe out with out cause Let vs consider what earnestnes he vseth and if any thinke that such exhortations pertaine not to vs let him hearkē to that which the holy Apostle sayth after he hath declared to the faithfull that there is no agreement betweene the faythfull and the infidell Wherefore departe from the middest of them and separate your selues from them saith the Lord and touch not any defiled thing and I wil receaue you and be your father and you shall be my sonnes and daughters Seeing then we haue expresse commandement to goe out of Babylon and to separate our selues from Infidels eyther we must doe it or confesse that we resist the will of God and that we offende him we cannot resist the exposition that the holy Ghost proposeth so plainely The summe is to vnderstand it well and to knowe what maner of departure and separation this ought to be and then to put it in execution We may goe out from Babylon and separate Sect. our selues from Infidels three maner of wayes The first is in bodie onely hauing the heart ioyned with them The second is in spirit onely hauing the body ioyned with them The third is hauing the body and spirit both together This last departure and separation is the surest for it is very hard and almost vnpossible to liue amōgst the Babylonians Egyptians without being defiled with their abominations or put our selues in danger of their sword It is very hard to the flesh to put it self in dāger of the sword for confession of the truth if the vertue of the spirit of God change it not vnlesse it doe such violēce to it self to forget forsake it self which cannot bee without a singular gift of God On the other side to participate and consent to the abominations of Idolaters and to please God are things too farre contrary and which cannot agree together wherefore the Lord hath not without cause withdrawen his people from Egypt from Babylon forbidden that they should make any aliance neither by marriage nor any other kinde of way with Pagans Idolaters which were their neighbours Exo. 34. Deu. 7. knowing it is very hard to touch pitch without being defiled therwith and to be conuersant Eccl. 13. amōg thornes wtout being pricked But I know well that the flesh can replye Sect. against this councel First that many cānot go out though they would Then there is feare of loosing their earthly goodes and delightes pleasures of the world which must bee forsaken and the loue studie and care of housholdes and families which are committed to our charge I am not ignorant what temptation this may be And therfore I would not cōstrain al those which haue knowledg of the truth to go frō their lands countries to cary themselues into places where it is lawful to serue God in libertie of the spirit or condēne thē altogether cast thē off as vnworthy to be disciples of Iesus Christ to be coūted for brethrē and christians if they did it not for I knowe well the departure would be very hard to many that it were impossible in this time to find a coūtry of libertie which were able to receiue so great a nūber of people as God hath shewed mercy to wherin there were earthly goods sufficiēt to nourish entertain thē if god of his grace would not cause māna to raine down as Exo. 16. he did in the desert yet if it shal please the Lord to giue such strēgth to those whō he hath visited by his grace to depart amōgst Idolaters to make their abode there where there is no constraint to commit idolatrie there is no countrie so strait nor so scarcely victuales nor yet so euil prouided of worldly goods which he cannot enlarge and make able to receiue all those which wil come thither and furnish them with whatsoeuer is necessary for them He coulde as easily finde meanes to do this Sect. as he did to giue so commodious an habitation and so apt a lodging and place to Noah and al Gen. 7. Noahs ark his familie and to all the beasts which entered in with him into his Arke within so weake a vessell and which according to mans reason was nothing able to receaue so many creaturs with victuals necessary for thē Who made the Arke so well able to receaue so stable and so strong who made the victuals which were therein to encrease and multiply but onely faith If then we shut our eyes as Noah did to follow the Lord we shall alway finde the arke large enough and sufficiently prouided The Lord whom we seeke and are willing to serue hath sufficiently declared vnto vs since the creation of the world what care he had ouer vs euen to prouide for vs in all our necessities For before he had created mā he prepared his lodging for him throughly garnished not onely for things which were necessary for him but for al thinges that he could desire to the ende that nothing might be wanting to him wherby he might take his ful pleasure vpon earth wherein he would place him Then if this good God hath so prepared this lodging for man before he placed him in the world and would not create him vntill he had first created the heauen and earth the Sea and all thinges contayned therein to serue him Thinke we that he hath not now as great care ouer vs as he had then and that he cannot as well prepare vs dwelling places wheresoeuer it pleaseth him to direct vs when it pleaseth him to drawe vs out of a captiuitie and furnish them with all thinges necessary for vs Who prouided for the children of Israel when they went out of Egypt Who made them inheritors of the land of their enemies We cannot and the worst fall finde a countrie Sect. more barrē thē the desert of the Israelites after they departed out of the fruitefull land of Egypt but if many of the Israelites being alreadie acquainted with the Babylonians liked rather to tary in Babylon yea after they had leaue to returne into their owne countrey thē to leaue their possessions and delightes that they had there to returne to Hierusalem how many Successours thinke we they may haue at this day amongest vs And therefore I knowe I should profit nothing to exhort al to goe out Moreouer it were to small purpose to separate our selues corporally from Idolatrie to withdraw our bodies from Egypt if withall we withdraw

pleasure of Princes He that confesseth me before men I will confesse him before my father in heauen But he that denyeth me c. And we must learne to say with the Apostle Paule If I seeke to please men I am not the seruant of Christ It is an olde saying and a true All is not Gold that glistereth but the fiery fornace wil soon try it Euery piece of yron that wee see is not perfect and sound yron for sometimes it is eaten through with the canker and this when the file commeth vpon it is easily knowne Wheate and chaffe lye mingled together in one barne til a gale of wind come and blowe them in sunder and then they appeare both plainely what they are let vs acquaint our selues with our good GOD by continuall and heartie prayer that by his goodnes wee may bee prepared against the day of his visitation to abide what in mercy he shall think good to lay vpon vs. The fearefulnes of fleshe and blood is such and the delight therof in worldly prosperity so great that aduersitie is not easily borne Imprisonment is accounted painefull but it is more painefull to enioy libertie vpon euill conditions The prisons are thought lothsome vnsauery but yet not more lothsome then the sweetest houses where the feare of God is wanting It is grieuous to man to be solitary and alone yet better is it to be so then in companie with the wicked It toucheth vs very neare to loose liuing and goodes but it shal be found to touch nearer to loose the fauour and grace of God We vse it as a common speech that life is sweete but most sweete and pleasant is it to loose this life full of mortall miseries to finde and enioye the life full of eternall ioyes We are loth to leaue our friendes wife and children but we must beware that in abiding with them wee stay not in the displeasure of our God These trials must needes come vpon vs and whosoeuer liueth to it is like to tast of thē But be of good cheare Whom the Lord loueth hee chastiseth euen to this ende that hee might call them to remember their sinnes and so runne by repentance to him and aske mercy and then he might pardon and forgiue them in respect wherof we are not to lamēt but to prayse the Lorde not to be dismaide but to be cōforted that our God wil vouchsafe to offer vs his crosse whereby he seeketh to traine vs vp to the place of endlesse ioye and comfort It is an assurance laide vp vnto vs that if we suffer we shall raigne If we confesse him before men in earth hee will confesse vs beefore his father in heauen If wee bee not ashamed of his Gospell heere he will not be ashamed of vs at the last daye Remember the words of our sauiour Christ in the. 5. of Mathew Blessed are they that suffer persecution for righteousnes sake for theires is the kyngdome of heauen Call to mynde that which Paule saith in the 8. to the Romaines The afflictions of this life are not to be compared to the ioyes of the lyfe prepared for you Wherefore seeing that euen in the crosse we beholde and see the mercie of our God which is more sweete and to be set by then any mucke or pelfe of this world yea much more then is life it selfe Let vs keepe on our course Let vs walke before our God in simplicitie of heart knowing this that not a heyre of heade can perish without the wil of our heauenly father neither can any man or diuel be able to attēpt any thing much lesse to do any thing to vs without the sufferance of the Almightie And when leaue is graunted they shall goe no further then he will Wherefore casting all our care vppon the Lord who careth sufficiently for vs Let vs lay aside all feare and onely studie whilest we liue heare to please him and to keepe our consciences cleane from the pollutions of this present age that both our minde and tongue our life and beliefe may be answerable to eche other and that for euer the word of truth may be a light to lighten our steps in the path of true holines The Lorde in the riches of his mercy impart vnto vs all such portion of his holy spirit that when the time of our tryall shall come and that the winde of persecution shall blow vpon vs we may be founde pure golde made clearer by the fornace perfect yron bryghtened by the fyle and good Wheate seuered from the light chaffe and so constantly continue Christ his faythfull souldiers and seruantes to our liues end And thus Madam haue I dedicated to your selfe particulerly a translated treatise as a pledge of my reuerend loue I beare you and to others generally a long and rude Epistle with it Your selfe I trust will accept my simple trauaile therin take it in good part and others I hope to whose handes this Epistle and treatise shall come will make fauourable construction thereof and will beare with all defectes therein whatsoeuer My desire was to warne encourage which how weakely soeuer it be perfourmed I trust it shall no whit hinder but rather further to so necessary a meditation that obtained I haue my desire beseeching God to open our eyes that we may see our deserts thereby know our perils and knowing the same may labour to meete the Lord by repentance before he come whether it bee for a time to scourge vs in iustice or to performe the last time of his comming in iudgement to euery one the portion allotted vnto him for his hire from the beginning which time of his comming the Lorde hasten to performe and fulfill for his electes sake Amen ¶ Grace mercie and peace from God our Father through our Lorde Iesus Christ I Was very glad deere brethren when I vnderstood how God of his goodnes mercie had visited you to the grace of the holy Gospell and to the knowledge of his truth and thereby to the cōmunion of his sonne Iesus Christ who is the treasure of all ages for this is a treasure conteyning immortall riches wherein lyeth all our blessednes and felicitie this is an inestimable benefite and the greatest wée coulde receiue of God Wherefore we haue good cause to giue him thankes for the same continually to the intent that by our ingratitude wee may not prouoke him to anger against vs nor stirre him vp or moue him to take from vs the talent which he hath giuen vs for we may well say of our selues that which Dauid said of himselfe and of all the people of God The Lorde hath not thus done to all nations neither hath hee manifested to them his iudgements When a king taketh some one into his seruice and giueth him some honorable office in his Court we thinke it a greate honour vnto him which is called to such a promotion and esteeme him greately beholding and bounde to the King Let vs then