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A69102	A soueraigne cordial for a Christian conscience Content thi selfe with pacience, with Christ to bear the cros of paine which can wil the rec[m]pence, a thousand fold with ioyes againe let nothig cause thi hart to quail lau[n]ch out thi bote, hoise vp the sail put from the shore. And thou sure thou shalt atain vnto the port that shall remayne, for euermore.	Bale, John, 1495-1563, attributed name.; Hooper, John, d. 1555, attributed name.	1554 (1554)	STC 5157; ESTC S109833	8,757	22

A SOVERAIGNE CORDIAL FOR a Christian Conscience Content thi selfe with pacience with Christ to bear the cros of paine which can and wil the recōpence A thousand fold with ioyes againe Let nothīg cause thi hart to quail Laūch out thi bote hoise vp the sail Put from the shore And be thou sure thou shalt atain Vnto the port that shall remayne For euermore From Roane the. xi day of May Anno Domi. M. D. Liiii A SOVERAIGNE CORDIAL for a Christian conscience BE not a fraid most dearly beloued in our Sauiour Christ at these most perilous daies wherein by the sufferaunce of God the prince of darknes is broken loose and rageth in his members against the elect of God with al suttelty to set vp againe the kingdome of Antechrist against whom se that ye be strong in faith to resist their diuelishe doctrine with the pure gospel of god arming your selues with patience to abide whatsoeuer be laied vnto your charge for the truthes sake knowynge that therunto you be called not onlye to beleue in him ▪ but also to suffer for him O how happi are ye that in the syght of God are counted worthy to suffer for the testimonie of Christ ▪ quiet therfore your selues oh my louing brethren reioyce in him for whom you suffer for vnto you do remaine th●se vnspeakeable ioyes ▪ neyther eye hath sene nether eare hath herd neither the hart of man is able to comprehend Be not afraid therfore of the bodely death for your names are written in the booke of life And the prophet doth record that in the sight of the Lord precious is the death of his sayntes whatch therfore and prai that ye be not preuented in the day of tēptacion Now commeth the day of your trial wherin the waters rage the stormy windes blow Now shal it appeare whether you haue builded vpon the fleting sandes or vpon the vnmoueable rocke Christ which is the foundatiō of the Apostles and prophets wher on eueri house that is builded groweth into an holye temple to the Lord by the mightye working of the holy ghost Now aprocheth the day of your battaile wherin it is required that you shewe your selues the valeaunt souldiours of Iesus Christe ▪ armed with the armour of God that ye may be able to stand sted fast against al the craftie assaultes of the diuel Christ is your captaine and you be his christians whose cognisaunce is the crosse to the which he willinglye humbled himselfe euen vnto the death hath therbi spoiled his e nemies now triūpheth he ouer thē in the glory of his father making intersession for vs that here are to be fulfilled in hys misticall body Vt behoueth therfore euery one that wil be counted his scholer to take vp eche one his crosse and folow Christ as ye haue him for an example being assured that he beinge on your side ▪ nothynge shal be able to preuayle agaynst you ▪ and that he wil be with you vnto the worlds end ▪ ye haue hys promis in the ▪ xx● iii of Mathew ▪ he wil go forth with his host lyke a conquerour to make a conquest He is the man that sitteth on the white horse crowned with immor talitie ▪ and ye brethren are his felowship ▪ wherof he is the heade He hath your hartes in his handes as a bow bent after his godly wil he shall direct the same after the ritches of his grace into al spiritual and heauenly cogitacions ▪ he is faithful and wil not further suffer you to be assaulted then shal be a boue your power and in the most daunger he wil make a waye that ye may be able to beare it Shrink not therfore deare harts whether you shall be called for the hope that is in you for ye haue a comfortout ▪ euen the spirit of truthe which was sent from the heauen to teach vs he shall speake in vs he shal strengthen vs ▪ what is he then that wil be able to confound vs nay ▪ what tiraūt is he that now bosteth him selfe of his strength to do mischiefe ▪ whom the Lorde shall not in the sayinges by the mouthe of hys seruauntes stryke downe to hel fyre ye sodenly wil the Lord bring downe the glorie of the proude Philistian ▪ by the hand of his seruant Dauid Their strength standeth in the speare shield ▪ but our help is in the name of the Lorde ▪ whiche hath made both heauen and earth He is our buckler ▪ walle tower of defēce he is our god ▪ and we are his people he shal bring the counsell of the vngodly vnto nought He shal take them in their own net he shal destroy them in their owne inuentions the right hand of the Lorde shal worke this wōder his power is knowen among the children of men their fathers haue felt it and are confoūded In like maner shall their children know that ther is no counsel against the lord whē their secretes ar opened vnto the world and are found to be against the lyuing God worcke they neuer so crafteli build they neuer so strong lie ▪ yet shal their Babell fal down and the builders them selues shal be scatered vpon the face of the earthe as accursed of God The iust shal see this and be glad and praise the name of the lorde that so mercifully hath delt with hys seruauntes as to bring their enemies vnder their feete Then shal the fearefull seede of Cain tremble and quake Then shal the moe kyng Ismalittes be cast out of the dore Then shal the proud Nempro these his labour lost Thē shal the host of Babilon be troden vnder foote then shall the Scribes and Pharisies for madnes feare rage Then shal their wisdom be knowen for extreame folly Then shal the bloudy dragon be voyde of his pray Then shal the whore of Babilon receiue a double vengeaunce then shal the market mē of the beast come vnto an open shame then shall they scratche their crownes for the very fall of the monstrous harlot whom now they serue for filthye lucre when no man will bye their wares anye more Then shal the popish priest hoode crie wel awaye with care euen when the lord shal help his seruauntes which day is not far The day wherin the kingdome of Antichrist shal haue an ende and neuer arise any more In the mean time abyde in certayne and sure hope cleauing vnto the promises of god which in their dutime shal be fulfilled and aquit your selues like men ▪ against the enemyes of God in al humblenes of mind puissaunt in spirite to acknowledge one God one only sauiour Iesus Christ one only sufficient euerlasting sacryfice for the remission of sinnes euen the precious bodie of the lord Iesus Christ ▪ once offe

hathe purchased wyth the bloud of the immaculate lābe He wil kepe them vntil the hour appoynted wherein the name of god shal be glorified in his saints in the meane time let them worke their wils let them enuie let them malyng let them blaspheme let them curs banne betraie whippe scourge hang and burne For by these meanes God wyil trye hys elect as gold is tried in the fornace and by these frutes shal thei bring them selues to be knowen what they be for al their shepes skinne For as he that in suffering paciētlie for the gospel of God is therby knowen to be of Christ euen so in like maner is the persecutour of them knowen therby to be a mem ber of Antechriste Besydes that these their extreme cruelty shalbe a meane the soner to prouoke god to take pite vpon his seruauntes to destroy those that so tiranouslie intreate his people as we may learne by the historyes as well in the bondage of Israell vnder Pha roo in Egipt as also in the misera ble captiuitie of Iuda in Babilon wheras when the people of God were in most extreme thraldome then did the Lord stretch fourth his mightie power to deliuer hys seruantes Though god for a time suffer them to be exalted in their owne pride yet shal they not escape his vengeaunce They are his roddes and when he hath woren them to the stumpes then will he cast them into the fire This shalbe their final reward your duty is in the meane while patientli to abide the wil of god which worketh al thinges for the best Thus dealeth he with vs partly for our trial and partly also for our sinnes whiche we most greuouslie haue committed to the great slaunder of his gos pel wherby the name of God is euil spoken of among his enemyes for the which he now punisheth vs with his fatherly correction in this world that we should not be dampned with the world By this meane seeketh he his sheepe that were lost to bringe them home to the fold againe By this way seeketh he to refourme vs ▪ that we maye be like vnto him after the image of his sonne Iesus Christ in al holines and righteousnes before him Finally ▪ this wave vseth hys godly wisdome to make vs therby to know him ▪ and our selues in him that afore tyme had a maner forgot him praysed be hys name As For these Balamites which now do molest vs let vs now commit them vnto the handes of GOD gyue him the vengeaunce and he wyll reward them Fal ye to praier and let these belly gods prate for he is in heauen and sleepeth not that kepeth Israell he is in heauen that made the seas calme when the disciples wer afraid Let vs now faithfully cal vpon him ▪ he wil heare vs let vs crie vnto the Lord for he is gratious and merciful when we are in trouble He is with vs he wil deliuer vs and he wil glorifie vs. If we be tourned vnto him we shall find him turned vnto vs if we repent vs of our wyckednes done against him then shal he take away the plage that he hath deuised against vs. Let vs therfore earnestly repent ▪ and bring forth the worthi frutes of repentaunce Let vs studi to be hys ▪ then shall we not feare what these hipocrites do against vs ▪ which with their pretensed holines deceiue the hearts of the people that be simple ▪ and abuse the autoriti of god in his princes ▪ causing them by their procurement to establish the ambitious prelasy to erect vp their idol againe wyth the romish masse God in whose handes are the hattes of kinges open the hart of the quenes maiesty to espie them out what they be so to weede them out that thei no lenger be suffered to trouble the congregation of God and to poison the realme with their pope ho ly doctrine God almightie for his sonne Iesus Christes sake deliuer the quenes hyghnes and thys her realme from the proude prelates which ar as profitable in the churche of Christ as a polecat in a war rin Their felowshyp is noisome their absence is right necessarye To conclude my brethren I commit you to God and to the power of his word which is able to establish you in al truth ▪ his spirite be with you worcke in you that ye may alway be mindful of your duties towarde hym ▪ whose you are both body soule whom se that ye loue serue dread obeie before al earthly powers and for nothing vnder the heauē defile your cōsciences in the sight of god Dis semble not with his word ▪ god wil not be mocked nay thei y e dissēble with him deceiue thē selues ▪ such the lord deny cast out at the last day Suche as beare ii faces in one hoode such as play on both handes such as deni the knowen truth such as obstinatly rebel against it al such with their partakers shall the Lord destroi God defend you from al such ▪ make you perfit vnto the end Amen Feare not for death passe not for bandes Only in God put thy whole trust For god wil require thy bloude at their handes And this thou dost knowe that once die thou must ▪ Onely for Christ thy life if thou gyue Death is no deathe but a meano for to lyue FINIS In your praiers remember me your brother and seruaunt in the Lord Iesus Christ. A GODLY PRAIER BE mercyfull vnto ys O Lord God of mercies and destroi vs not in thi wrath we haue offēded O lord we haue trespassed agaynst thee therfore hast thou now visited vs with thi heauy hād suffering our enemies to triūphe ouer vs. But yet O Lord our hope is in thee that thou wilt not forsake vs nor leaue vs which put our trust in the. Hear vs O Lord for thi sonne our Lord Iesus Christes sake and gyue not thy people to be a praye vnto the wycked for euer O Lorde in thee haue we trusted let vs neuer be cōfounded Haue mercy vpon vs and after this great miseri shew vs the light of thy countenaunce that we may se the brightnes of the gospel againe to thy great glory and our great comfort ▪ and to the saluatiō of thy people Tourne vnto vs O Lord that be tourned vnto the by thy holy spirit worke in vs that we neuer retourne from thee anye more ▪ but alway walke in thy holy feare as it besemeth thy children ▪ withdraw O Lord God thys thy heauie displeasure and be mercyful vnto vs. Let not thy enemies of thy woord spoile thy seruauntes neither gyue thy people to be an euerlasting stocke to the foolishe Finally O Lord God deale with vs after thy accustomed kyndnes As thou art iustlye displeased for our synnes so be fauourable to vs that repēt the same that thou maiest be knowen a righteous God ful of pitie and compassion Graunt this we beseeche thee for the bloud of Iesus Christ ▪ to whom with the the holye ghost be al honour praise and glorie worlde without end Amen Mar. xiii Apo. xx i. Pet. v. Philpi i. Act. xiiii i. Pet. iii Actes v. Ezi lxiiii i. Cor. ii Apo. xvii Psa. cxv Luk xxi Mat. vii Ephe. ii II Tim. i● Ephe. vi Philip. ii Hebr. xii Collos. i. 1. Pete v. Math. x. Rom ▪ viii Mathew xxviii Apoc. vi i. ●oti i. ii Tit. iii. i. Cor. x. i. Pet. iii. Exod. iiii Psa. xxxi Luk. xiii Actes ii Psal. cl i. Re. xvii Psal. lx ii Cor. vi Heb. viii Psa. lxxx Psal. cxi Psalm lii Psal. lxv i. Cor. xi Psa. xciii Gen. iiii Gen. xxi Gene. xi Phil iii. Psalm ii 1. Cor. iii. Psal. xc Iob. v. Apoc. xii Ap. xviii Apo. xiii Ap. xviii Psa. cxlv 1. Cor. xvi 1. Cor. viii Heb. ix x Psa. lxvii Actes iii. Hebru i. i. Pet. iii. Ephesi i. Philip. il Ro●● ●● Phil. ii Ioh. xvi i. Iohn ii ● Tim. ii Collo xi i. Corin. i Ephe. ii Abac. ii Gala. iii. Ephes. ii Actes x. Luke ix Phili. iii. i. Cor. ix Ihon. iiii Psalm xv Ephe. iiii Collo iii. Math. x. Mar ▪ viii Ephe. iii. Luke viii Rom. vii Psa. xxvi Ephes. i. Gala. iiii Phili. iii. Hebr. vi i. Cori. ii ii Tim. ii Hebru x. Phili. iii. Math. iii. Iohn vi Ps. xxxiiii Heb. iiii Psalm vi Math. xx Luke xxi Math. x. i. Peter i. Math. x. Sapi. iii. Math. vii Ieromes words vp on the vii psal Exo. xiii Esd. xxiii Mach. vii Iaco. iiii i. Pete v. Apoca ▪ i. Hebr. xii Iacob ▪ i. Ezechias xxxvi Roma ii i. Cori. i. Luke ▪ xv Eph. iiii Osi. xiii Rom. xii Phili. iii Luk. viii Mar. iiii Psa. lxxx Psa. xc Iere. xii Ier. xviii Math. iii Mat. xii Iob. xii Prou. xv Psa. xiiii l. lxxviii Actes xx Math. x. Exod. i. Deut ▪ iiii Rom. xii i. Pete ii Mar. viii Math. x. Apoa iii. Heb. xiii